Post-UCAT Discussion 2025

[Med ANZ]

Is the Notre Dame Med cutoff at 3205+ (99.5th percentile) a bad premonition for the UCAT cutoffs of all the other med schools? Notre has gone from 94% last year to 99.5% this year. I have heard that half of the available places are reserved for rural and indigenous so that could be a potential factor but that is still a extremely large jump. I'm now feeling that I won't get a med interview at any university even with a 96% UCAT. Does anyone else feel the cutoffs for other unis are going to jump and are worried?

Yes, most of the students will not even get a single Interview, and Students who got 98% above may get all the interviews. Very disappointing!

 

[Deleted member 55240]

I am sure wiser heads than me will pop in and comment but I would have thought that's unlikely. For a start, NDU only uses UCAT, others combine. UND has never been that big on undergraduate entry (from memory, it was looking at not even offering it this year, and its private. I think it will be an outlier. Monash, Adelaide, UQ, UWA will still favour locals. Some universities will keep not using UCAT or only use it as a secondary concern.

 

[A1]

Yes, most of the students will not even get a single Interview, and Students who got 98% above may get all the interviews. Very disappointing!

Yes I share the same sentiment. I hope the schools will alter their interview-selection criteria to spread out the opportunities.

For a start, NDU only uses UCAT, others combine.

Several schools now use sole UCAT for interview selection - UQ/CQU/USQ, JMP, JPM, Monash 1st round, Adelaide 1st round. Reason being they want to conduct a large chunk of the interviews in Nov-Dec (before ATAR release) and don't want to bother with predicted ATAR.

For the combo ATAR+UCAT schools UNSW has a harsh 99.50 ATAR cutoff. The others Monash, Adelaide, UWA allow few spots to interstate. These two reasons combine to the predicament of the sub-97 UCAT.

 

[KalkiteSpur]

Yes I share the same sentiment. I hope the schools will alter their interview-selection criteria to spread out the opportunities.



Several schools now use sole UCAT for interview selection - UQ/CQU/USQ, JMP, JPM, Monash 1st round, Adelaide 1st round. Reason being they want to conduct a large chunk of the interviews in Nov-Dec (before ATAR release) and don't want to bother with predicted ATAR.

For the combo ATAR+UCAT schools UNSW has a harsh 99.50 ATAR cutoff. The others Monash, Adelaide, UWA allow few spots to interstate. These two reasons combine to the predicament of the sub-97 UCAT.

So the future of medicine entry is screwed big time? Cannot see them making GAMSAT and MCAT the test for all medical schools regardless if it is undergraduate or postgraduate.

 

[MjM91]

Is the Notre Dame Med cutoff at 3205+ (99.5th percentile) a bad premonition for the UCAT cutoffs of all the other med schools? Notre has gone from 94% last year to 99.5% this year. I have heard that half of the available places are reserved for rural and indigenous so that could be a potential factor but that is still an extremely large jump. I'm now feeling that I won't get a med interview at any university even with a 96% UCAT. Does anyone else feel the cutoffs for other unis are going to jump and are worried?

I can’t imagine you won’t get a single interview offer with a 96% UCAT. I haven’t researched Norte Dame enough to be able to comment fully on their likely criteria, but I think it’s important to note 2 things.
Firstly, we don’t have all the data, only the scores from people who responded in this forum. So calculating the actual cutoff can be flawed.
Secondly, from what others have said it does sound like Norte Dame doesn’t take many undergrads anyway, and they clearly have a big focus on rural entrants for the ones they do take, because there have been a couple of rural applicant scores posted that have been quite low.

I think it’s safe to say that if every uni only offered interviews to the top 1-2% of UCAT scores, they wouldn’t have enough applicants to interview. At a rough calc, there would only be around 400 UCAT scores maximum in the top 2%. So try not to worry too much, hold out for the bigger schools to release their invites.

 

[A1]

I think it’s safe to say that if every uni only offered interviews to the top 1-2% of UCAT scores, they wouldn’t have enough applicants to interview. At a rough calc, there would only be around 400 UCAT scores maximum in the top 2%.

The schools interview around 350-450 non-rural applicants. For like JMP where almost everyone applies to it's the UCAT top 3%, thus we've seen cutoff at 97%ile (confirmed by a JMP Admissions officer).

Then the local-prefer policy makes it more severe. UQ Adelaide allocate half the interview spots to locals, WSU Monash UWA three-quarters. Resulting in interstate UWA 99%ile, UQ/WSU 98%ile, Adelaide 97%ile, Monash 97%ile with a high ATAR.

The sub-97%ile only have a chance at an in-state school, or UNSW if they get ATAR 99.50+.

 

[RAND_07]

I heard the lowest score invited was 2320 unfortunately

2310, I got mine (Griffith Dent) on Friday, non-rural, QLD.

 

[Deleted member 55240]

Or JCU or Griffiths/GC option.

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A1 adds: Yes, but they need ATAR 99.85-99.90 so I ignored them

 

[aspiringdoctor1]

I can’t imagine you won’t get a single interview offer with a 96% UCAT. I haven’t researched Norte Dame enough to be able to comment fully on their likely criteria, but I think it’s important to note 2 things.
Firstly, we don’t have all the data, only the scores from people who responded in this forum. So calculating the actual cutoff can be flawed.
Secondly, from what others have said it does sound like Norte Dame doesn’t take many undergrads anyway, and they clearly have a big focus on rural entrants for the ones they do take, because there have been a couple of rural applicant scores posted that have been quite low.

I think it’s safe to say that if every uni only offered interviews to the top 1-2% of UCAT scores, they wouldn’t have enough applicants to interview. At a rough calc, there would only be around 400 UCAT scores maximum in the top 2%. So try not to worry too much, hold out for the bigger schools to release their invites.

For NSW non-rural, 96% could be too low for many of the unis unless they have a 99.5+ ATAR, like A1 mentioned

 

[MjM91]

For NSW non-rural, 96% could be too low for many of the unis unless they have a 99.5+ ATAR, like A1 mentioned

Oh for offers definitely, I was thinking more just for interview invites.

 

[legendofzelda]

For NSW non-rural, 96% could be too low for many of the unis unless they have a 99.5+ ATAR, like A1 mentioned

Yeah even 97 might not be enough for places like JMP and interstate

 

[annie92311]

Have all the invites for Western Sydney Uni gone out yet? I only saw one in the data collection thread...

 

[aspiringdoctor1]

Have all the invites for Western Sydney Uni gone out yet? I only saw one in the data collection thread...

i think it was just rural or indigenous so far

 

[MjM91]

Have all the invites for Western Sydney Uni gone out yet? I only saw one in the data collection thread...

It's just Indigenous invites so far

 

[AayaG]

The schools interview around 350-450 non-rural applicants. For like JMP where almost everyone applies to it's the UCAT top 3%, thus we've seen cutoff at 97%ile (confirmed by a JMP Admissions officer).

Then the local-prefer policy makes it more severe. UQ Adelaide allocate half the interview spots to locals, WSU Monash UWA three-quarters. Resulting in interstate UWA 99%ile, UQ/WSU 98%ile, Adelaide 97%ile, Monash 97%ile with a high ATAR.

The sub-97%ile only have a chance at an in-state school, or UNSW if they get ATAR 99.50+.

All schools together only interview 350-450 non-rural applicants? How many non-rural seats are there?

 

[buzyb33]

Looks like Monash round 1 is out. Missed it by 10 points. Does that mean there's a good chance for round 2? Also would round 1 and round 2 VIC non rural candidates be considered together before a final offer is made?

 

[Deleted member 55240]

How do you know you missed it? What was the cut off?

 

[buzyb33]

How do you know you missed it? What was the cut off?

2380

 

[medbuddy]

Hi anyone know international (on shore) UCAT cut off for JMP >?
is there any difference with domestic students ?

 

[link1]

hi dont have a good ucat but have a good chance at 99.95 atar realised i put down only sunshine coast griffith instead of just the bachelor of medical science for griffith (this is the medicine pathway right it doesnt say provisional pathway on qtac like the rest), wondering which uni i should remove from my list, unisq or unicsq how are their ucat cutoffs/chance of acceptence for each?