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Well I suppose it depends how easy we were expecting it to be
(I wasn't expecting it to be overly difficult. To be fair, the repro part was substantially less in-depth than anticipated).
*95%.
And I think she (Suzanne Duncan) said in the last lecture that 1) she's marking them all by herself (I don't envy her...), and 2) it should take around 3 weeks. So from that, yeah, I'd say they should be out before the HSFY marks.
ETA: Anyone know the deal with signing up to the uni for next year? Do we just do nothing until offers do/don't show up, or do we have to register now and then put in what course we're doing when we find out?
ETA2: Just answered my own question. For anyone else who was wondering:
So plenty of time.
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hmmm i dont quite get that. so we just wait for offers, then complete registration??
Lol and nah i dont think ill be throwing down any insane marks this sem. im aiming for at least 90 85 85. that'll give me a 91 average (huge drop from 94.25 in first sem lol) and a rank score of 81.4 which should hoopefully get me through. the average mark getting into med last year apparently was 91 average and 20.4 UMAT (weighted) translating to a rank score of 81.066667. we got told this at the start of the year when someone from the admissions office gave a talk to our hall. i reckon its pretty unlikely that the cutoff mark this year will go above the average mark getting into med last year. also for the tentative cutoff of about 79 we have established, that would mean UMAT marks would have had to go up by 4.5 from last year, assuming that everyone's GPA's stayed the same. that sorta seems like quite a bit.
are we sure about this ranking score of 77.5 being the cutoff last year? seems like theres heaps of people from health sci with pretty high averages and good UMATs, but that might just be because of my hall (37 got into med from my hall last year).
Lol and nah i dont think ill be throwing down any insane marks this sem. im aiming for at least 90 85 85. that'll give me a 91 average (huge drop from 94.25 in first sem lol) and a rank score of 81.4 which should hoopefully get me through. the average mark getting into med last year apparently was 91 average and 20.4 UMAT (weighted) translating to a rank score of 81.066667. we got told this at the start of the year when someone from the admissions office gave a talk to our hall. i reckon its pretty unlikely that the cutoff mark this year will go above the average mark getting into med last year. also for the tentative cutoff of about 79 we have established, that would mean UMAT marks would have had to go up by 4.5 from last year, assuming that everyone's GPA's stayed the same. that sorta seems like quite a bit.
are we sure about this ranking score of 77.5 being the cutoff last year? seems like theres heaps of people from health sci with pretty high averages and good UMATs, but that might just be because of my hall (37 got into med from my hall last year).
Quote/paraphrase GG: "do NOT register before offers" - there is no point at all registering for such things as med before we get an offer for it, and we will have more than 20 days to complete our registration after offers come out, so there is no hurry at all. This time around registration should be very quick.
Not a point of disagreement but if I recall correctly, the averages given above are calculated independently of each other (as in, "the average grade was 91, and the average UMAT was 20.4", rather than "the average ranking score was the result of 91% and 20.4 UMAT"). Just pointing it out for everyone else's sake.
You're from Carrington, of course there'd be a crapload of people with high averages and good UMATs...
Hi Guys, just wondering whether any of you have looked into graduate entry? I have no idea about the difference between a BSc (possible major Physiology) and Biomedical Science. Obviously the aim would be a high GPA. I am trying to work out a plan B in case I get bad news in December and any help would be appreciated in weighing up the pros and cons.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Saxguy accepted first-round with like 77.8? And I think there were others waitlisted with slightly lower. For the sake of the lurkers/people who don't read this site as obsessively as me, that the 77.5 cut-off last year was for non-waitlist offers, and I'm pretty sure the waitlist offers went down to just under 77 (I know of someone who got in with an 87 average and 50th%ile UMAT off the waitlist).
And I agree with Pine that I'd be very surprised if this year's cut-off was higher than last year's average med-acceptee marks. My guess (read: Guess. Guess. Guess. Guess. Not fact. Guess) would be that 80 rank score would be reasonably safe, and anything ~79 will probably get in first-round. Depends on the UMAT curve shift, and the number/quality of applicants through ROMPE/MAPAS, and what this semester's paper grades look like. But yeah, if I'm on anything >80.5 rank score, I'll feel vaguely less unsafe.
Edit: Oh, and for Hebros's sake: [MENTION=4350]koochkooch[/MENTION] , [MENTION=4247]Ramza[/MENTION]
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I'm very sure that the cutoff was in the 77.5 region for the last two years. Of course you're going to hear more from the people who get higher scores, which is probably why health scis often think the cutoff will be much higher than it really is.
At a glance, BBioMedSc vs. BSc - both degrees draw from the same pool of papers (so no difference in difficulty in that regard). The difference is in the majors: for BSc you do a lot of papers from one area (e.g. anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology), but get a lot of choice in regard to all the other papers you do. For BBioMedSc you focus on a thematic area (e.g. drugs and human health), for which you do a wide variety of papers. In BBioMedSc you don't become as knowledgable in any one area as a BSc student majoring in that area, and you don't get as much choice in your papers overall, but you do get to do a wide range of papers (e.g. some anatomy and physiology and pharmacology) rather than honing in on one area.
At a glance, BBioMedSc vs. BSc - both degrees draw from the same pool of papers (so no difference in difficulty in that regard). The difference is in the majors: for BSc you do a lot of papers from one area (e.g. anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology), but get a lot of choice in regard to all the other papers you do. For BBioMedSc you focus on a thematic area (e.g. drugs and human health), for which you do a wide variety of papers. In BBioMedSc you don't become as knowledgable in any one area as a BSc student majoring in that area, and you don't get as much choice in your papers overall, but you do get to do a wide range of papers (e.g. some anatomy and physiology and pharmacology) rather than honing in on one area.
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[offtopic]Me, or him? Haha[/offtopic]
It's a personal choice, but I would've gone for BSc. I'd like to be able to get to know one area really well while having the freedom to explore more areas of interest outside that area. I'd have also felt more comfortable doing a BSc as it is a far more established degree than BBioMedSc (which is a very new degree), and therefore more recognisable on a CV. That's just my opinion though.
Did you really expect flexibility from a double major honours degree?
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