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Otago HSFY chat - archive

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skyglow1 said:
I think Pete found got in via the waiting list only a couple of days before the start of med. If you can find his scores somewhere within this massive thread then that could give you a rough idea.
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From the very limited info I found

2nd sem grades

86,88,94 and the fact he said it was a general improvement

and his weighted UMAT being around 51.5

I'd say it was about 75.5 (+/-) 0.5
 
greenglacier said:
Lets just put this all in context of the best available evidence.

In 2005, Auckland university compared the grades of its first year students with their NCEA level 3 marks. The results found that 40% of the variation in grades in health science papers could be accounted for by NCEA results, and that 60% of the variation in grades in science papers could be accounted for by NCEA results (this is a LOT better than traditional school examination systems by the way).

Looking at the facts then (rather than anecdotes/feelings), it seems that in Otago HSFY there is most likely a 50/50 split - half of your success will be predicted by how well you did under NCEA, while the other half will be predicted by other factors. Hence NCEA remains a pretty decent indicator of success in HSFY, but there are many other factors, such as your study techniques during HSFY, that have just as much of an impact - hence the stories of people doing poorly in NCEA but well at university (and vice versa). This is of course why we have HSFY at Otago - if school marks were a perfect predictor of university success then we could just have entry into med directly from school.
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greenglacier, you're going to be glad to know that the calculation you figured out and the cut off you estimated for last year is spreading crazy in HSFY this year. I heard a few different people talking about it. I'm pretty sure there's a gazillion people on this forum, they just don't post anything.
 
Otago HSFY 2011 chat/enquiries

Hey!
Since the HSFY thread has like a billinon pages and views.
I thought I would start fresh with the HSFY for 2011 =]
Who's going to Otago next year?
Also discussions about anything related to HSFY 2011 can be done in here.(yy)

I will start first!
Apparently today is the day you find out about which residential college you got into.
So Anyone got into what they wanted?
 
Will reiterate this seeing as it's residential colleges time...don't stress if you didn't get into the college you want etc. You get out of HSFY what you put into it. The hall you end up with will be quite a minor factor in the bigger scheme of things.
 
Might as well input some,
I applied for
Carrington
Cumberland
Aquanas

Really, just hoping to get into Carrington Darn.
I applied mine on post, so. Well. News sure travel slow.
 
I was just referring to the potential arrogance of even I didn't go as well. Don't worry it's a touch hypocritical. And yea it certainly was far tougher than any other.
 
50%...yikes...although if you did well on it you'd be pretty stoked seeing as it's a rare opportunity to get ahead of the competition in HUBS,
 
Hoping I'll even get into HSFY, have spent the last year at Vic and despite getting merits in NCEA, need a GPA of >4 here to get preferential entry :huh:

All things going well, I'll be there next year though. Flatting, however.
 
kaixian0011 said:
GPA > 4 is not alot is it? Isn't it out of 9?
And I thought otago isn't very hard to get in. Despite there are cut offs now.
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Some GPA systems go into 4.5

Brin, you do understand that only in certain circumstances can anyone with previous university study apply for professional courses after HSFY?
 
ChickenPie said:
Some GPA systems go into 4.5

Brin, you do understand that only in certain circumstances can anyone with previous university study apply for professional courses after HSFY?
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I've yet to sort out dispensation with Otago, but none of the papers I've studied this year are even vaguely related to any of the HSFY ones, so I'm hoping there shouldn't be an issue there.

Re: only needing 4/9, the reason I'm changing degrees is because I'm fairly hopeless at this one. My last trimester GPA was 6.3, it's this trimester's one which might be the problem.
 
Hi :)
I'm new to this site but its been really good to hear how everyone's going with FYHS!
I'm trying to get into med and my grades aren't exactly great :S
From first sem I've got an average of 87% or 91% if i get rid of physics as my 8th paper which i definitely plan to! I'm trying really hard to up my grades this semester and I'm definitely doing better. I also got 95th percentile for umat.
Honestly, what kind of gpa would i need to be anywhere near med?

Thanks so much in advance!
 
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