The further you are in the degree, the lower the GPA requirement is. For GWS students 1 year or more but uncompleted undergraduate (8-23 units) GPA = 5.5 and after that they have thresholds at 3 years or more, which isn't relevant to you anyway, so if you are GWS 5.7 is above the hurdle. Receiving results in December is no issue as that is the normal time for all unis.
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Quick Questions Thread #2: 2018-2019
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The further you are in the degree, the lower the GPA requirement is. For GWS students 1 year or more but uncompleted undergraduate (8-23 units) GPA = 5.5 and after that they have thresholds at 3 years or more, which isn't relevant to you anyway, so if you are GWS 5.7 is above the hurdle. Receiving results in December is no issue as that is the normal time for all unis.
Unfortunately I'm not a GWS student but thanks anyway! So I've gone and done some calculations, my GPA is actually 5.8, and in terms of improving it I'd honestly say it would be pretty hard to improve it significantly at this point in the semester so having my exams deferred or not probably won't do too much in terms of GPA. However, my first priority course is dentistry at CSU, does anyone know whether having 3 instead of 4 semesters will hurt my chances of getting an offer?
How important exactly are the written portions of applications, specifically UNSW, and specifically rural. There are the couple of questions, no word limits greater than 50, and the involvement with your rural community (600). The rural question obviously is somewhat important, but are the others important in the whole process or just as points of reference in the interview? I find it hard to believe they could compare us based on 50 words answers...
The UNSW short answers are not part of the selection criteria. It appears they are used more to guide your interview, should you receive one. ETA: In other words, I'd stick to things you'd be more than happy to talk about one on one, because the information might be brought up.
This is obviously NOT the case for some other universities, such as UTAS rural applications and JCU in general.
Great thanks, that's what I was hoping
You won't get a place in that particular medical school if they were going to offer you bonded but you decline it. That would probably be considered an issue by some people!
Edit: Unless you preferenced bonded over non-bonded for whatever reason but you scored high enough to be eligible for non-bonded, but in that case why would you decline a bonded offer if you preferenced it?
Nope, as they have no way of knowing the reason you declined (e.g. accepting offer from another uni, decided not to study medicine in the end etc.)
how did you guys know that you wanted to do medicine for sure? I am not sure if I am 100% ready to commit to spending the next 10+ years of my life to this career pathway. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Are you a school leaver? I have some reasons but I’m a mature aged student with previous experience working in allied health and my thoughts were heavily influenced by this, so my motivations might not resonate with you.
Hi LMG, yes I am a school leaver. I do chem and bio at school and I do find them interesting and enjoyable. I also have other reasons/motivators for why I am applying, but I guess I'm not sure whether medicine is something I really really truly want to do and am prepared to commit a lot of time and energy to, and I guess I want to make the decision/know whether it's something I am prepared to commit to before I do start the course (if I even get in that is...)
And so I guess I'm asking, how can I know for sure that med is something that I really want to do?
To be honest, given you’re a school leaver I think it’s completely normal that you don’t know, and you may not know if/until you get in and start. I’d think that would have to be the case for most careers. If you have some reasons/motivations, and maybe even if you have MORE reasons/motivation for Med than you do for your back up plans (which you should also definitely have), then that’s probably good enough for now.
Asking yourself these questions is really sensible, btw. Whether you get definitive answers for them (from others or from yourself!) is probably a different matter!
Best of luck with the rest of year 12, and your decision making. Maybe research some other career paths that would allow you to capitalise on your interests in bio and chem, such as physio, teaching, nursing, pharmacy (if you haven’t already).
So I did my umat this yr and got 93 percentile and I know that UQ has a cutoff of a 99 atar, then it ranks you based on your umat, but it also offers 2 bonus points for doing 4u math. So does that mean if I get an atar of 97, it would be enough for a bonded provisional place at UQ?
That's correct. The UQ BMP cutoff has been 90-91%ile the previous two years, with ATAR 97+ and 93%ile you are fairly assured of a BMP offer.
Hi all, I have been reading a few things regarding UQ selection and UMAT scores.
My raw scores (48, 49, 60) add up to 157 however due to the Acer rounding system, they’re presented on my results spreadsheet as a raw score of 156.
Will UQ render it as 157 or 156 (not that it makes much of a difference except in 2016 it would’ve!)
I’m a rural applicant btw!
My raw scores (48, 49, 60) add up to 157 however due to the Acer rounding system, they’re presented on my results spreadsheet as a raw score of 156.
Will UQ render it as 157 or 156 (not that it makes much of a difference except in 2016 it would’ve!)
I’m a rural applicant btw!
UQ uses the sum of the three rounded section scores, yours will be considered as 157.
Skarzin
Monash Med III
A1 did you notice the rural MD score cutoff in UQ was 123 with a S1 of 41 for 2018 entrants 
Yea we knew about this, that's an incredible 10ish %ile.
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Was the UMAT in 2017 that difficult that it dropped by a significant amount?
I don't think so. Doesn't matter how difficult the scores are scaled/adjusted such that 50 section & 150 overall are at ~50%ile. It could be the combined effect of higher rural intakes at the other med schools and for some reason not as many rural students got over the ATAR 97 UQ hurdle.
A1 did you notice the rural MD score cutoff in UQ was 123 with a S1 of 41 for 2018 entrants
Yea we knew about this, that's an incredible 10ish %ile.
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Was the UMAT in 2017 that difficult that it dropped by a significant amount?
I don't think so. Doesn't matter how difficult the scores are scaled/adjusted such that 50 section & 150 overall are at ~50%ile. It could be the combined effect of higher rural intakes at the other med schools and for some reason not as many rural students got over the ATAR 97 UQ hurdle.
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