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Interview offers & dates 2016-17

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mary poppins said:
check the email address you sent them, check the email address they sent it too. show a prinout of received emails and junk box emails over that period and plead your case. Try to identify where the problem occurred. Alot is at stake so trying your hardest to sort it out will only be of benefit to you. Good luck
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Thanks for the advice! In the end they only asked what emails I had received, no printouts required, and made the final decision to reschedule my interview to a later date, so it all worked out.
Final question if anyone has any idea, how well would I need to do in the interview with a 99.25/98%?
 
jebhank123 said:
Thanks for the advice! In the end they only asked what emails I had received, no printouts required, and made the final decision to reschedule my interview to a later date, so it all worked out.
Final question if anyone has any idea, how well would I need to do in the interview with a 99.25/98%?
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really happy for you. best wishes
 
jebhank123 said:
Final question if anyone has any idea, how well would I need to do in the interview with a 99.25/98%?
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As a rough estimate, interview score better than 50%ile. But naturally you will try as best you can as no-one knows what it takes to get 50%ile.

Btw congrats for getting an interview after the hiccup. I assume you are from NSW? (since interstate applicants have not started booking their interviews while Unsw said you failed to).
 
mary poppins said:
wow that is a big assumption. What evidence do you have to support it ? I stand corrected if you have some?
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Only data collected from MSO over the last 10 years or so where people have posted their scores for DRL (though admittedly some archives are missing especially pre-2010ish, which is rather annoying).

That said, it's also very straightforward to say that it's incredibly rare that any student (let alone the student with social and educational disadvantage due to rural background) makes the non-DRL cutoff because Monash has among the highest, if not the highest, ATAR/UMAT combination requirement for any undergrad med degree around the country (i.e. if you got a Monash interview, well done). Coupled with this is the incredible paucity of high scoring rural students due to social and educational disadvantage (this is reflected in all medical schools, not just Monash) - the rural student who gets a high enough ATAR and UMAT to qualify through non-rural pathways is a rarity within a rarity, or a figurative unicorn.
 
A1. said:
As a rough estimate, interview score better than 50%ile. But naturally you will try as best you can as no-one knows what it takes to get 50%ile.

Btw congrats for getting an interview after the hiccup. I assume you are from NSW? (since interstate applicants have not started booking their interviews while Unsw said you failed to).
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Yeah, I'm from NSW
 
Is it surprising that someone with no special considerations who is also nonrural got a Monash interview with 97.7 atar and 76th percentile umat??? There must've been a mistake!!!
 
w_akimm_z said:
Is it surprising that someone with no special considerations who is also nonrural got a Monash interview with 97.7 atar and 76th percentile umat??? There must've been a mistake!!!
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May have been a mistake, or maybe they chose to apply for ERC while none of the high scorers bothered?
 
w_akimm_z said:
Is it surprising that someone with no special considerations who is also nonrural got a Monash interview with 97.7 atar and 76th percentile umat??? There must've been a mistake!!!
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This seems quite the anomaly, yes - either a mistake has been made or the student is rural.
 
A1. said:
Can't possibly be THAT MUCH not as competitive.
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Probably you're right and I think the suggestion you stated about not enough high scoring applicants choosing ERC seems like the likely reason behind these low scorers getting interview offers.
 
Ricky89 said:
Hi,
Does anyone know if JMP does 2nd round offers as well? or do they send offers only once?
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The JMP only has one interview offer round (because whether you get an interview is based completely on the UMAT score, and you don't need a prediction for that by the time interviews come around because they have the actual scores).
 
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