Quick Questions Thread #2: 2018-2019

[Michael Wan]

Looking at my HSC results today, estimated ATAR around 98, so unlikely to get even the UNSW Medicine interview invite.
Looking into 2019, which undergraduate Medical Schools will allow me to use ATAR (2018) or GPA (2019) to apply for Medicine again for 2020 admission? Thanks. I know WSU allows this. Any other med schools?

 

[DrDrLMG!]

Looking at my HSC results today, estimated ATAR around 98, so unlikely to get even the UNSW Medicine interview invite.
Looking into 2019, which undergraduate Medical Schools will allow me to use ATAR (2018) or GPA (2019) to apply for Medicine again for 2020 admission? Thanks. I know WSU allows this. Any other med schools?

Once you’ve done a full year of Uni the non-standard courses you’d be eligible for are:
WSU: will use whatever is higher out of GPA and ATAR
JMP: will use GPA
JCU: will use GPA (I’m pretty sure, but not 100% confident on this one)
Added by Crow: JCU will definitely only look at GPA if you have completed any tertiary study.
UNSW: will use GPA and ATAR (50/50)
Bond: will use GPA and ATAR

Some of these change the further through your degree you get.

ETA: [Undergrad] - (2018 Updated) Med schools Selection Criteria Y12s & Non-standards

 

[1234med]

Anyone know when USYD Dent interview offers come out? I just received my ATAR, so perhaps today? Interview/ assessment day is next Monday.

 

[Michael Wan]

ATAR is out now??

ETA: NSW ATAR Just out, use My UAC App to get ATAR, it is faster.

 

[Cocoa]

ATAR is out now??

VIC ATAR was out at 7am this morning

 

[Aus2018]

Has anyone from NSW received interview invite from UNSW yet?

 

[Smelly Boy]

Has anyone from NSW received interview invite from UNSW yet?

No invites yet

As soon as they come out I’m sure we’ll have a million people posting about it so just sit tight my friend. Should be out soon

 

[Dootyy]

Hey guys, just got my atar today. After some awful moderation (where an A in unit 3 became a C+ for chem), I received a 85.70.
I live in a rural area and attended an underrepresented school. Would I still be considered for the 2020 Direct Entry program at Monash with this atar, and if so, what would the corresponding UCAT I would need to receive have to be??? Thanks guys.

 

[DrDrLMG!]

Hey guys, just got my atar today. After some awful moderation (where an A in unit 3 became a C+ for chem), I received a 85.70.
I live in a rural area and attended an underrepresented school. Would I still be considered for the 2020 Direct Entry program at Monash with this atar, and if so, what would the corresponding UCAT I would need to receive have to be??? Thanks guys.

UCAT has never been used in Australia before so we have ZERO data on which to base any response to your question. You're going to have to come back to us with this in approximately 12 months time. That said, even with rural eligibility, I don't recall anyone with an ATAR similar to yours being successful with an offer (reported here), regardless of UMAT performance, so your best bet would probably be to start a University degree next year and use that GPA to apply for non-standard entry medicine and then graduate entry medicine if necessary.

 

[1234med]

I've heard that even for specialty training programs, rurality is looked at? Obgyn has 10 or so points allocated to rurality/ ATSI, compared to 10 or so points for all clinical/ research experience (?). Are any other specialty training programs like this? All of the websites are vague (maybe I'm not looking at the right area) and it isn't clear how many points are allocated for the different areas.

 

[mthk]

Hi! Just a quick question
With Griffith University, say their minimum rank for a certain course is like 84
and I have 82 but 6 rank adjustment factors
Does that mean I have 88 rank now? or is the minimum rank the raw mark
Thank you!

 

[A1]

Hi! Just a quick question
With Griffith University, say their minimum rank for a certain course is like 84
and I have 82 but 6 rank adjustment factors
Does that mean I have 88 rank now? or is the minimum rank the raw mark
Thank you!

I'm fairly sure they compare your raw+bonus mark against the minimum for admission
(otherwise there's no point giving you the bonus).

 

[Crow]

Hi! Just a quick question
With Griffith University, say their minimum rank for a certain course is like 84
and I have 82 but 6 rank adjustment factors
Does that mean I have 88 rank now? or is the minimum rank the raw mark
Thank you!

A1 is correct - the only courses they won’t consider bonus points for are medical science (direct entry to MD) and dentistry.

 

[Crow]

hey
more so a curious question but do the government choose how many rural students a university can take or do each university select the amount of rural students each year.
cheers

They stipulate a minimum that each university offering CSPs needs to meet (I believe it’s 28%(?)) but the universities are welcome to offer more positions to rural students if they wish (they can distribute the positions they have to offer however they please). JCU and Wollongong are examples of unis that go well above the minimum with the number of places they give to rural students.

 

[Grabma_01]

Hello, I've got a question about the 'bonus points scheme'. Here in Queensland, I've heard that you can get bonus points for passing subjects like a language and Maths C. My question is does this also apply for medicine? For example to griffith or uq?

 

[Crow]

Hello, I've got a question about the 'bonus points scheme'. Here in Queensland, I've heard that you can get bonus points for passing subjects like a language and Maths C. My question is does this also apply for medicine? For example to griffith or uq?

It only applies to UQ provisional entry medicine, not Griffith or JCU. Keep in mind ATAR is only a hurdle for UQ, so once you’ve reached 99.0+ (with bonus points) place offers all come down to UMAT score.

 

[lblue]

Hi,
seeing as med offers don't come out until Jan, should I be placing another degree as first preference for now or will it not matter what order they're in?
Thanks

 

[Q3]

Hi,
seeing as med offers don't come out until Jan, should I be placing another degree as first preference for now or will it not matter what order they're in?
Thanks

You can place another degree as first preference to ensure that you have it secured, then you can move the med preferences up after you have accepted the offer. But don't delete any of the med preferences because I don't think you can add them again.

Edit: if you are competitive enough to get a spot you will get it in any round, so by not changing your preferences you won't miss out

 

[Crow]

Hi,
seeing as med offers don't come out until Jan, should I be placing another degree as first preference for now or will it not matter what order they're in?
Thanks

It won’t matter, you’ll still be eligible for the same non-med courses in Jan if you miss out on med (obviously provided they are in your preference list). If you want to get an early offer from a course that participates in one of the early offer rounds, you could change your preferences temporarily, but this isn’t a necessity unless you really want to get your offer earlier in time.

 

[TheMedRudolph]

Hi, I just wanted to ask about entry into medicine courses after already starting an undergraduate degree. Which Uni's in Australia don't accept students who have already started an Undergraduate degree? Also, I'm planning to do Commerce/Computer science at unsw next year and resit UCAT. Are there medicine uni's that will not accept an application from me because I don't have science units, or is the course I do irrelevant as long as I maintain the required marks to maintain entry as a non-standard applicant. Cheers.