Quick Questions Thread #2: 2018-2019

[riekomckenzie]

anyone know when jmp and uws are releasing interview offers?

 

[DrDrLMG!]

anyone know when jmp and uws are releasing interview offers?

Interview Invites and Dates 2018-19

Includes info from last year which is all we have to go on.

 

[live1234]

anyone know when jmp and uws are releasing interview offers?

I hope soon because I can't keep eating Tim Tams like this hahahah

 

[cook]

is there a chance you will have the same interviewers for the dentistry and medicine interviews at a particular uni?

 

[DrDrLMG!]

is there a chance you will have the same interviewers for the dentistry and medicine interviews at a particular uni?

I would think it very unlikely. I’ve only done medicine interviews, but was (IIRC) instructed that all interviewers were doctors, either from the school or from the community.

 

[Crow]

is there a chance you will have the same interviewers for the dentistry and medicine interviews at a particular uni?

IIRC for postgraduate entry, USyd and Melbourne combine both medicine and dentistry applicants into the one interview, so perhaps USyd does this for their undergraduate provisional entry applicants also. As per LMG!, I wouldn’t expect any other undergraduate entry universities to do this, though.

 

[Michael Wan]

Looking at putting UNSW, WSU and JMP Medicine in my UAC preferences. For WSU and JMP, can I correctly say that if I do NOT get an invitation to interviews before mid Dec (release of the ATAR results), I am definitely not offered a chance (no late second round interviews) and therefore I could REMOVE WSU and JMP in my UAC preference before the Mid Dec deadline so that I could put other courses (eg Pharmacy or nursing) in?
My UMAT was only at 84 percentile so unlikely to get the interview from both WSU and JMP......

 

[DrDrLMG!]

Looking at putting UNSW, WSU and JMP Medicine in my UAC preferences. For WSU and JMP, can I correctly say that if I do NOT get an invitation to interviews before mid Dec (release of the ATAR results), I am definitely not offered a chance (no late second round interviews) and therefore I could REMOVE WSU and JMP in my UAC preference before the Mid Dec deadline so that I could put other courses (eg Pharmacy or nursing) in?
My UMAT was only at 84 percentile so unlikely to get the interview from both WSU and JMP......

JMP interview invites are based on UMAT alone. If you don't receive an invite at the end of this month, you won't get one as they don't have second round interview invites. This has been the same for WSU historically, but I understand they have a slightly different process this year, so I'm not 100% sure.

ETA: The WSU change pertains only to when interviews are held, rather than the distribution of invites and the way in which eligibility for these is determined, so yes, if you don't receive an interview at the end of this month, then you'll have missed out on WSU also. WSU will send you a notification of your ineligibility in mid-November should this be the case.

 

[ikanovica]

anyone know how EAS comes into play for Non-standard entry- particularly through QTAC-pooled Universities?

 

[Crow]

anyone know how EAS comes into play for Non-standard entry- particularly through QTAC-pooled Universities?

I'll answer for QTAC-pooled universities: I can't speak for courses outside of medicine and dentistry, but JCU doesn't offer EAS bonuses for medicine or dentistry, and neither does Griffith. I don't believe UQ does for dentistry, either, though you'd probably want to confirm that yourself. Yamster may know also.

As for other courses, if EAS is offered, the bonus will be applied to your GPA or equivalent "rank score" for QTAC - this will depend on which courses you are applying for and to which universities.

 

[riekomckenzie]

siggghhhh they still haven't sent out interview invites the waait sucks

(Edited “offers” to “interview invites” for sake of clarity and an attempt at consistency, from LMG)

 

[M98]

im not sure if this is the right place to ask but I'll give it a shot
I'm currently a second year university student with a GPA of 6.454 and a Umat score this year of 98, and due to circumstances beyond my control I might have to step back from the rest of the semester. I think I'll be eligible to withdraw without academic penalty however the forms take 4-6 weeks to process and I have not handed it in yet (waiting for someone to write me a letter for my form). in this 4-6 week period my 3 withdrawn units will register as a fail mark, bringing my GPA down to a 5.07ish and after the 4-6 week period it will bounce back to 6.45.

Do you think this will affect my chamces at getting interviews/overall offers later on? am I just screwed with everything going on? I've worked hard all year and suddenly I feel so defeated with everything going on
thank you in advance

 

[Q3]

im not sure if this is the right place to ask but I'll give it a shot
I'm currently a second year university student with a GPA of 6.454 and a Umat score this year of 98, and due to circumstances beyond my control I might have to step back from the rest of the semester. I think I'll be eligible to withdraw without academic penalty however the forms take 4-6 weeks to process and I have not handed it in yet (waiting for someone to write me a letter for my form). in this 4-6 week period my 3 withdrawn units will register as a fail mark, bringing my GPA down to a 5.07ish and after the 4-6 week period it will bounce back to 6.45.

Do you think this will affect my chamces at getting interviews/overall offers later on? am I just screwed with everything going on? I've worked hard all year and suddenly I feel so defeated with everything going on
thank you in advance

It would not affect your chances JMP since even the 5 is still above the cut off. WSU looks at the GPA/ATAR when it comes to the final offer round so by that time your GPA will reset. M98 Also, if your atar is above the threshold for WSU it won't matter if your GPA is not.

Have you considered explaining your circumstances to your uni, maybe they will accommodate you somehow?

I am not sure how it would affect your chances at UNSW.

 

[Ruffle]

im not sure if this is the right place to ask but I'll give it a shot
I'm currently a second year university student with a GPA of 6.454 and a Umat score this year of 98, and due to circumstances beyond my control I might have to step back from the rest of the semester. I think I'll be eligible to withdraw without academic penalty however the forms take 4-6 weeks to process and I have not handed it in yet (waiting for someone to write me a letter for my form). in this 4-6 week period my 3 withdrawn units will register as a fail mark, bringing my GPA down to a 5.07ish and after the 4-6 week period it will bounce back to 6.45.

Do you think this will affect my chamces at getting interviews/overall offers later on? am I just screwed with everything going on? I've worked hard all year and suddenly I feel so defeated with everything going on
thank you in advance

Hey, hope everything is going alright. It's a bit of an unusual situation here, but perhaps if you gave the institutions you're applying to a call (ask specifically for the med/dent admissions, not regular admissions) and explain your situation, then they'd be able to help. All the best.
That being said, it would make more sense if they took GPA at the end of the semester, so you should be fine.

Also- it would be great, too, if you're willing to report back here afterwards, just so we know for future reference

 

[M98]

Hey, hope everything is going alright. It's a bit of an unusual situation here, but perhaps if you gave the institutions you're applying to a call (ask specifically for the med/dent admissions, not regular admissions) and explain your situation, then they'd be able to help. All the best.
That being said, it would make more sense if they took GPA at the end of the semester, so you should be fine.

Also- it would be great, too, if you're willing to report back here afterwards, just so we know for future reference

I just called up wsu and JMP and both said right now for interviews they'l be looking at umat only so my GPA isn't going to matter and fingers crossed there's going to be no hiccups with my forms and they're all fixed up before they're needed for main round offers (I didn't apply for unsw since my atar was too low)

this is a tangential question but just incase my GPA situation is still messed up, my atar was 91 and I receievd EAS bonus points, would those points still add to my atar today? or will I need to reapply for EAS? thanks for replying so fast haha

 

[DrDrLMG!]

I just called up wsu and JMP and both said right now for interviews they'l be looking at umat only so my GPA isn't going to matter and fingers crossed there's going to be no hiccups with my forms and they're all fixed up before they're needed for main round offers (I didn't apply for unsw since my atar was too low)

this is a tangential question but just incase my GPA situation is still messed up, my atar was 91 and I receievd EAS bonus points, would those points still add to my atar today? or will I need to reapply for EAS? thanks for replying so fast haha

I believe you would need to reapply for EAS (if you are eligible for it at all given you've started a uni degree).

That said, I think this would largely only help you with UNSW, and unless your EAS gets your 91 to about 98, then you're probably not competitive for UNSW anyway, regardless of GPA. I had a GPA of 7.00, a UMAT of 98th %ile, and an ATAR of over 97.00 and was basically not competitive for UNSW last year.

ETA: I've just looked and you're definitely not eligible for EAS/ACCESS scheme at UNSW, they state this pretty clearly on their website. That said, they do have this for tertiary students who have experienced disadvantage (scroll to the SCATS section): Transferring Students - Future Students - UNSW Sydney

I have no idea if it's available to Medicine applicants.

 

[M98]

I believe you would need to reapply for EAS (if you are eligible for it at all given you've started a uni degree).

That said, I think this would largely only help you with UNSW, and unless your EAS gets your 91 to about 98, then you're probably not competitive for UNSW anyway, regardless of GPA. I had a GPA of 7.00, a UMAT of 98th %ile, and an ATAR of over 97.00 and was basically not competitive for UNSW last year.

I was asking about atars just incase for wsu since my GPA is dipping maybe they'll consider my ATAR, I'm GWS so the cut off is around like 93 right?

 

[Q3]

I was asking about atars just incase for wsu since my GPA is dipping maybe they'll consider my ATAR, I'm GWS so the cut off is around like 93 right?

That is correct, but since you had ATAR 91, you need EAS to get you over the line. The only issue is that EAS is not considered for tertiary applicants. But your situation is unique because you are not applying for EAS for tertiary study, but for previous secondary study. You definitely should contact UAC because they know the policy in detail.

It seems logical that it would still apply, because you did experience the disadvantage at the time.

Edit: You will have to do a fresh application regardless and the booklet that Ruffle linked strongly suggests that the EAS would still apply.

 

[Ruffle]

I just called up wsu and JMP and both said right now for interviews they'l be looking at umat only so my GPA isn't going to matter and fingers crossed there's going to be no hiccups with my forms and they're all fixed up before they're needed for main round offers (I didn't apply for unsw since my atar was too low)

this is a tangential question but just incase my GPA situation is still messed up, my atar was 91 and I receievd EAS bonus points, would those points still add to my atar today? or will I need to reapply for EAS? thanks for replying so fast haha

Edited: see LMG!'s clarifying post below re. UNSW not accepting EAS for tertiary students

Writing this mostly for future reference, but here goes:

The way EAS works (from the UAC EAS website) is that it can:

• increase your selection rank for that course (this is called an 'equity adjustment') or
• allocate you a place reserved for EAS applicants.

So the reason why you'd need to reapply is because it doesn't simply add points onto your ATAR, but rather adjusts the ranking you sit in for the specific courses you applied for in this offer round.
It seems that applicants who aren't sitting Year 12 in 2018 can still apply (see page 6 of this booklet) so you should be fine there.

EtA:
1. Even if EAS gets you over the 93 threshold for WSU, it still may not be a competitive score compared to other applicants'. Still worth a shot though!
2. like q2017 said, please do call UAC to double check everything

 

[DrDrLMG!]

Writing this mostly for future reference, but here goes (since like LMG! said, unless EAS helps an extraordinary amount, your ATAR is unfortunately too low to be competitive for UNSW medicine)

The way EAS works (from the UAC EAS website) is that it can:

• increase your selection rank for that course (this is called an 'equity adjustment') or
• allocate you a place reserved for EAS applicants.

So the reason why you'd need to reapply is because it doesn't simply add points onto your ATAR, but rather adjusts the ranking you sit in for the specific courses you applied for in this offer round.
It seems that applicants who aren't sitting Year 12 in 2018 can still apply (see page 6 of this booklet: https://www.uac.edu.au/assets/documents/eas/educational-access-schemes-2018-19.pdf) so you should be fine there.

EtA:
1. Even if EAS gets you over the 93 threshold for WSU, it still may not be a competitive score compared to other applicants'. Still worth a shot though!
2. like q2017 said, please do call UAC to double check everything

Only some Universities allow EAS for tertiary students. UNSW is not one of them, and state this clearly. WSU don't seem to say one way or the other, so presumably they do allow it (whether they allow it for MBBS applicants, I am not sure).