Quick Questions 2019/2020

[pokopoko99]

Really!!!! You got A*A*AA and you got an offer from Griffith!Are you sure. Because if thats true then wow I can do medicine after all without even an interview. Are you a rural student(maybe thats why you got an offer)?
Also I had contacted griffith uni earlier and they said"the highest ATAR that can be achieved with 3 A Level subjects is 99.50"

And btw the conversions werent on the satac website. I emailed them.

I don't have any sort of bonus that can increase my score from what it is (from NZ) so I think if the cutoff stays the same (around 99.75) then I would think you would get an offer from there (Nathan campus). Griffith uses 4A levels. Good luck!

 

[A1]

Sorry not sure if this is the right place to ask but how exactly do QTAC preferences work? Say if you were to put UQ Medicine as number 1 preference and UQ Dent as number 2, if you got accepted into UQ Medicine, would you not receive an offer for UQ Dent?

Oops I forgot to mention my regular dare
Although you don't get both offers together, once you've received a provisional UQ Med offer you can request UQ Med Admissions to arrange UQ Dent as your undergrad degree. No guarantee but they said they would try for you.

 

[Lyyrre]

Oops I forgot to mention my regular dare
Although you don't get both offers together, once you've received a provisional UQ Med offer you can request UQ Med Admissions to arrange UQ Dent as your undergrad degree. No guarantee but they said they would try for you.

We were talking about adding a law degree on top of that, that's 13 years...

A1 says: That's nothing new haha. Dr Dent has a Law PhD, currently doing Dent at Adelaide with a view of adding Med afterwards = 15+ years.

 

[TKAO]

Which universities (in all of Australia) require additional forms to be filled in and submitted? Including online application forms directly to the university that are made alongside the TAC preferences, predicted atar forms and anything else required.
I know that UWA and Curtin have predicted ATAR forms that can be filled in for WA applicants, I know that JMP/UNSW/WSU require you to apply directly to them as well as to UAC. I know that JCU requires a written component (do you also need to submit the predicted ATAR application form?).

Any others?

On a separate note - I lived in the GWS area for 10 years of my life (from about 5-12 years old) before moving around and eventually ending up in Perth. Therefore, I am completing WACE but am I eligible to apply as a GWS applicant? I fulfil the 5 year requirement but does it need to be immediately before starting the WSU MD program?

 

[losthermit]

Hi,
I have a qs regarding my eligibility for any Aus undergraduate medical program. I think I may have stuffed up the whole process. In 2018, I completed VCE, then enrolled in physio at Monash. After a little emergency, I had to quickly withdraw before the census date. I completed UCAT this year. I was wondering if I am eligible anywhere with my atar and if yes, which unis?
Many thanks.

 

[A1]

I have a qs regarding my eligibility for any Aus undergraduate medical program. I think I may have stuffed up the whole process. In 2018, I completed VCE, then enrolled in physio at Monash. After a little emergency, I had to quickly withdraw before the census date. I completed UCAT this year. I was wondering if I am eligible anywhere with my atar and if yes, which unis?
Many thanks.

My understanding is since you withdrew before the census date you are not considered as having a tertiary academic record. As such you are eligible to apply as a school leaver to most med schools except UQ, USyd (current Y12s only) and possibly UMelb.

 

[losthermit]

Thank you A1 for your quick reply. I've only started panicking just now, bc in my application through UAC, it says I'm ineligible next to all my preferences.

Thank you A1 for your quick reply. I've only started panicking just now, bc in my application through UAC, it says I'm ineligible next to all my preferences.

A1: Did you do that application as an (ex-)Monash student or a school leaver?

Sorry I made an error. In my SATAC app, I'm ineligible and I applied as a school leaver

A1: Applying as a school leaver did SATAC ask you to enter any uni records/student number and did you? If you did then you are ineligible (thus must remove these bits). If you didn't best to ask SATAC why ineligible.

I don't think they asked me for a student number in tertiary studies. I must have put no to any tertiary records. I will definitely ask SATAC bc the red "not eligible" is scaring me. Thank you so much for your help.

A1: A possibility is it'd have asked you to enter your state (Y12) student number and a hiccup in the system is not recognising yours being from last year.

 

[REGULAR JOE]

Hi
Is there anyone who is non rural who got offered a place in medicine last year with a UMAT percentile less than 90?

 

[A1]

Hi
Is there anyone who is non rural who got offered a place in medicine last year with a UMAT percentile less than 90?

A good number of JMP non-rurals got a place with sub-80%ile, since they only needed a sufficient Section 1 score to get an interview despite a lower Overall percentile then place offers are 100% on the interview, not affected by a low UMAT.

Have a look in the collated data > Aus Med and Dent Place Offers 2019 - Collated Data

 

[failedlobster]

I can't find the QTAC code for JCU bonded (im applying for both), is it included in the QTAC code?

 

[room1]

Can NZ citizens apply for bonded medical places?

 

[Crow]

I can't find the QTAC code for JCU bonded (im applying for both), is it included in the QTAC code?

You’ll automatically be eligible for both bonded and non-bonded positions - it’s just the one preference on QTAC.

 

[Crow]

Can NZ citizens apply for bonded medical places?

No, unfortunately not.

 

[TheMedRudolph]

Wouldn't it be quite unfair if UWS does end up weighting sections as people would have had sections that did differ in difficulty, whilst in umat the test was pretty much standardised? This could also be why JMP arent focusing on just one section anymore.

 

[John07]

Low predicted ATAR: 96.6 without SEAS and 98.5 to 99.5 with SEAS with a UCAT ~91-92. What are chances for medicine? Is it worthwile applying outside SA?

 

[A1]

Low predicted ATAR: 96.6 without SEAS and 98.5 to 99.5 with SEAS with a UCAT ~91-92. What are chances for medicine? Is it worthwile applying outside SA?

Apart from Adelaide I suggest you apply to WSU (some chance) and JMP (strong chance for an interview).

If you are doing a LOTE or Maths C equivalent, try to improve from 96.6 to 97+. This with the LOTE/Maths C bonus would bring you to Rank 99 and 92%ile could possibly land you a bonded offer.

 

[John07]

Thanks, I am repeating again this year and took psychology to improve my ATAR! Unsure whether can get A or A+ and the scaling factor!

 

[A1]

Wouldn't it be quite unfair if UWS does end up weighting sections as people would have had sections that did differ in difficulty, whilst in umat the test was pretty much standardised?

This argument^ can be said the same to using the Overall score since someone could unluckily get all 4 difficult sections. I don't think the schools will care about this, they rely on Pearson to set up the test sets of approximately same difficulty level for each section.

 

[worldno8]

Hey guys, sorry if this has already been asked but do we need to apply for Griffith med through both UAC and QTAC? Is it fine to only apply for Griffith through QTAC?

Also, are there 2 campuses where we can study med at Griffith (Gold Coast and Nathan, cmiiw)? If so, do we need to list the campuses separately on QTAC?

 

[A1]

Hey guys, sorry if this has already been asked but do we need to apply for Griffith med through both UAC and QTAC? Is it fine to only apply for Griffith through QTAC?

Also, are there 2 campuses where we can study med at Griffith (Gold Coast and Nathan, cmiiw)? If so, do we need to list the campuses separately on QTAC?

If you are QLD naturally QTAC. If NSW you could apply to Griffith through UAC but it's better through QTAC only, to avoid complicating your UAC pref list (which presumably includes WSU JMP UNSW).

Iirc there are separate entries for Nathan and GC to put into the QTAC pref list.