Quick Questions 2019/2020

[kumquat999]

Subjective question, but generally speaking, it shouldn't be too much of an issue for those who have received a 99+ ATAR, provided they are willing to put in the work.

University is a different style of learning and assessment to high school, and some struggle with the adjustment, but I'd say it should be pretty manageable in a medical science degree for a high achiever.

ETA: At Griffith you should actually still be motivated to put in the work because if your GPA is in the bottom 28.5% of students in your cohort by the end of the undergraduate degree, then you'll be allocated a BMP position rather than a CSP.

Thanks, Crow!

 

[A1]

Myth: you are placed into separate applicant pool.

It may be a myth now but I believe that was the case earlier. UNSW website used to say they offered a small number of places to EAS applicants. If bonus ATAR points had been in place then it could be any number of EAS applicants who could succeed not necessarily small.

Another factor is 2015-17 it used to take 99.0/90%ile (or equivalent combo) to get a UNSW interview. Last year it suddenly jumped to 99.2/92%ile, a significant step change. I suspect this bonus scheme started from last year since with more high 99s in the pool the interview cutoffs of course rose higher.

 

[ABT123]

it’ll lift your ATAR to 99.95

I wrote a formal complaint to UNSW which resulted in them telling me what bonuses do & how they work to help students gain entry. EAS due to school location is DEFINITELY +3 ATAR, financial disadvantage is DEFINITELY +1 ATAR. Other disadvantages I’d imagine range from +1 to +3 ATAR.

Uni marks are usually never given special consideration unless something like both your hands broke & you couldn’t type.

Myth: you are placed into separate applicant pool.

Fact: you are given a ‘generous’ (not sure how it’s generous if you’ve lived a life of disadvantage & UAC amounts all that disadvantage and hardships to something like a +3 atar boost but yeah that’s another conversation) bonus for your ATAR

Edit: personally I received a +4 boost to my ATAR, I could’ve received more but there’s no point providing extra documents since EAS due to school location itself is enough to get me to 99.95

Hi, I was just wondering how EAS would work in my case. Basically, I've already started uni, and I didn't apply for EAS last year, but I could have received EAS had I applied (note: this is for a category other than financial disadvantage/school location). Does this mean that I can now only apply through SCATS, or is EAS still a thing?

 

[DrDrLMG!]

Hi, I was just wondering how EAS would work in my case. Basically, I've already started uni, and I didn't apply for EAS last year, but I could have received EAS had I applied (note: this is for a category other than financial disadvantage/school location). Does this mean that I can now only apply through SCATS, or is EAS still a thing?

If you have a tertiary record, you can only apply through SCATS, I believe.

 

[ABT123]

If you have a tertiary record, you can only apply through SCATS, I believe.

Ok, thanks for clearing that up! I'm still slightly confused though since it appears both 98lift/Smelly Boy are non-standards as well, but have EAS (i think? or maybe it's SCATS). Is this because they had already applied/were already granted EAS during Y12?

 

[Smelly Boy]

Ok, thanks for clearing that up! I'm still slightly confused though since it appears both 98lift/Smelly Boy are non-standards as well, but have EAS (i think? or maybe it's SCATS). Is this because they had already applied/were already granted EAS during Y12?

Once you’re in uni, you apply for the SCATS thing. In the application, include disadvantages from high school & uni & they’ll assign bonuses to your high school &/or uni marks accordingly

 

[wobblepong]

I'm very interested in the rural-generalist pathway of medicine and was just wondering, would James Cook or JMP be more suited to this? Or does it really not matter at all? These two schools are both probably my top preferences, just wanted a couple more opinions from the ever-wise MSO community

 

[chinaski]

It doesn't really matter. Your alma mater has little bearing on your career pathway, and you have to walk before you can run. All the medical schools will deliver you to internship in more or less the same state - what you do after that is more important to where you end up, specialty-wise. Bear in mind also that what you are interested in now will more likely than not change a few times before you even graduate.

 

[AnaM]

Does anyone know the number of positions that were available for adelaide dent in 2017 (for those wanting to start the course in 2018)?

 

[Big Irrelevant]

Hey guys, probably a dumb question but why doesn't QTAC require me to enter my UCAT candidate ID? For my home state application (UAC), I am required to submit my candidate ID along with my preferences. I am aware that Pearson UVE will provide the score to the universities on my behalf but how will QTAC confirm my identity without my candidate ID? Will I be required to provide my score report later on as a supporting document?
What was the application process like back when it was still UMAT?
Cheers.

 

[Smelly Boy]

Hey guys, probably a dumb question but why doesn't QTAC require me to enter my UCAT candidate ID? For my home state application (UAC), I am required to submit my candidate ID along with my preferences. I am aware that Pearson UVE will provide the score to the universities on my behalf but how will QTAC confirm my identity without my candidate ID? Will I be required to provide my score report later on as a supporting document?
What was the application process like back when it was still UMAT?
Cheers.

Maybe the direct application you do (if there is one for the uni(s) you’re applying to) asks you to provide your UCAT number & so QTAC doesn’t ask for it? Not too sure but this might be the case

 

[A1]

Hey guys, probably a dumb question but why doesn't QTAC require me to enter my UCAT candidate ID?

We had this same question in previous years. Apparently QTAC will match your name & DoB against the UMAT/UCAT listing.

 

[Seano]

Hey guys, probably a dumb question but why doesn't QTAC require me to enter my UCAT candidate ID? For my home state application (UAC), I am required to submit my candidate ID along with my preferences. I am aware that Pearson UVE will provide the score to the universities on my behalf but how will QTAC confirm my identity without my candidate ID? Will I be required to provide my score report later on as a supporting document?
What was the application process like back when it was still UMAT?
Cheers.

Last year QTAC automatically retrieved your umat so I'm pretty sure they would do the same this year with the ucat. This is what it says in their Application services FAQs:


Do I need to add my UMAT information?
You do not need to enter your UMAT candidate number into your application, as the university will retrieve this for you automatically.

 

[Smelly Boy]

Question:
if I do a grad med interview, get an offer & accept, am I able to still do undergrad interviews in hopes of getting a spot at a uni I’d prefer? Or is it the case that I have to sign something upon accepting the offer which makes me unable to accept another offer (making doing interviews at other unis useless)?

 

[Crow]

Question:
if I do a grad med interview, get an offer & accept, am I able to still do undergrad interviews in hopes of getting a spot at a uni I’d prefer? Or is it the case that I have to sign something upon accepting the offer which makes me unable to accept another offer (making doing interviews at other unis useless)?

Nope, GEMSAS and other grad unis won't know if you're applying elsewhere, so you're free to do your undergraduate interviews. The only conditions of a graduate entry offer that I'm aware of are for those that have conditional offers i.e. those dependent on completing a degree / maintaining a GPA for the remainder of the degree.

 

[A1]

Question:
if I do a grad med interview, get an offer & accept, am I able to still do undergrad interviews in hopes of getting a spot at a uni I’d prefer? Or is it the case that I have to sign something upon accepting the offer which makes me unable to accept another offer (making doing interviews at other unis useless)?

If you are an international applicant I've heard you have to deposit like 10-20K to accept & hold a place offer.

Since you are not one, no problems. Just accept them all then later withdraw from the ones you don't want before the census date. No penalty.

 

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Question:
if I do a grad med interview, get an offer & accept, am I able to still do undergrad interviews in hopes of getting a spot at a uni I’d prefer? Or is it the case that I have to sign something upon accepting the offer which makes me unable to accept another offer (making doing interviews at other unis useless)?

Just as long as one of those interviews isn't JMP

 

[leez]

what are the chances that a 97 atar with around 95 percentile ucat (using various calculators) would get an offer for unsw (non-standard)?

 

[A1]

what are the chances that a 97 atar with around 95 percentile ucat (using various calculators) would get an offer for unsw (non-standard)?

Unfortunately this doesn't look good. As I mentioned in another thread a 97.15 + GPA 7 + 98%ile got an interview invite but was advised only 5% chance successful for a place offer (meaning that combo just scraped into the interview round). If UNSW is interviewing similar number of applicants this year I think 95%ile is unlikely to make it.

 

[TKAO]

Fact: you are given a ‘generous’ (not sure how it’s generous if you’ve lived a life of disadvantage & UAC amounts all that disadvantage and hardships to something like a +3 atar boost but yeah that’s another conversation) bonus for your ATAR

Edit: personally I received a +4 boost to my ATAR, I could’ve received more but there’s no point providing extra documents since EAS due to school location itself is enough to get me to 99.95

So when you say +4 boost to ATAR, does that max out at 99.95? Like for example, if I got a 96.7 atar and got +3 atar, would that mean it gets boosted to a 99.7? And with +4 it would boost you to a maximum of 99.95? If you got a 99.5 and got +1 atar would you then get boosted to 99.95?

On a seperate note, does this also apply to QLD's selection rank system - if you do a language (for example) you can get 2 bonus selection ranks, does that also equate to a +2 ATAR and boost a 99 to a 99.95? or only to a 99/OP1 since that is technically the highest rank in QLD?