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UNSW UNSW Medicine: General Entry Questions and Discussion

Hello Everyone,

New to this forum and have spent two days+ to read through and found it is so informative. Follow the question from CJ-1 on page 69 (somehow the quote button doesnt work for me) I went to UNSW website and found that the lateral entry scheme is now restricted to domestic UNSW Bachelor of Medical Science (BMedSci) students? Can anyone help to verify if it is just changed?

Here is the link for Lateral Entry Scheme UNSW

Or I am confused it with the non-standard entry path which I can use my Y1 Uni WAM/GPA and UCAT to apply? Sorry for too many silly questions.
 
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ypshen said:
Hello Everyone,

New to this forum and have spent two days+ to read through and found it is so informative. Follow the question from CJ-1 on page 69 (somehow the quote button doesnt work for me) I went to UNSW website and found that the lateral entry scheme is now restricted to domestic UNSW Bachelor of Medical Science (BMedSci) students? Can anyone help to verify if it is just changed?
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It hasn't changed. Lateral entry is only for UNSW medsci students.
ypshen said:
Here is the link for Lateral Entry Scheme UNSW

Or I am confused it with the non-standard entry path which I can use my Y1 Uni WAM/GPA and UCAT to apply? Sorry for too many silly questions.
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Yep you've definitely confused it with the nonstandard pathway.
 
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ypshen said:
Or I am confused it with the non-standard entry path which I can use my Y1 Uni WAM/GPA and UCAT to apply?
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Adding to 2xq 's reply - if you do any degree any uni you can apply non-standard to UNSW. If you do UNSW BMedSci you can apply non-standard as well as Lateral entry I believe.
 
Hi guys, I was wondering if I could get some help. I'm currently in a kind of weird situation. I'm a holder of an Australian passport (that would qualify me as a domestic applicant) who studied high school overseas. I just finished Year 12 and is currently going through the application process. I don't have an ATAR score, but I have a IB score of 42 and an SAT score of 1580 and will take UCAT in Aug. My first and second choices are BS/MD in University of Sydney and UNSW, but considering that my IB score only converts to a 99.2 ATAR, I think I won't be able to receive an interview offer from either schools. Therefore, I'm considering USyd's graduate entry, UNSW's lateral entry, or non-standard application (since I would like to stay in New South Wales if possible).

If I don't get into undergraduate entry medicine, then I would be weighing between USyd's graduate entry medicine with UNSW's bachelor degree (which provides me with another chance of UNSW's lateral entry scheme). Provided that my dream school is USyd, I am also concerned that universities would generally reserve more postgraduate study positions for students who studied undergraduate at their own universities, which means that if I study bachelor's degree at UNSW, then I would have less of a chance to get into USyd's graduate entry med. Is my concern with universities reserving more positions for their own students true? If so, would UNSW's lateral entry scheme be a risk worth taking just to have more chances of entering med compared to doing a bachelor's degree in USyd?
 
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Is my concern with universities reserving more positions for their own students true?
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No that's not true for USyd.
Graduate-entry Flinders reserves more places for its own students. Deakin & Macquarie give a small GPA bonus to their students. That's all I can recall.
 
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Based on the following information:
[MedStudentsOnline.com.au] UNSW Medicine: General Entry Questions and Discussion
Does this mean that I, as an NZ and AUS citizen, could select that I am an NZ citizen when completing UNSW’s direct application in order to be ineligible for a BMP offer? It’s a shame that UNSW doesn’t offer an option to not express interest for a BMP offer like JMP does in their direct application. And would having an Australian NSW address still qualify me as a local applicant?

Answering A1: I’d rather not get a UNSW bonded if I’d be eligible for JMP or WSU unbonded at lower preferences. At the moment I have UNSW at 1, JMP at 2, and WSU at 3. If I could, the order would be UNSW, JMP, and WSU CSPs in that order, followed by the same order but their corresponding BMPs.
 
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I’d rather not get a UNSW bonded if I’d be eligible for JMP or WSU unbonded at lower preferences. At the moment I have UNSW at 1, JMP at 2, and WSU at 3.
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That^ being the case and you being dual Aus/NZ citizen, yes I think you can tick NZ citizen to not get UNSW bonded.

Normally your local status is determined by your Y12 school's location, NSW home address is not relevant.
But there is a possibility UNSW interview selection algorithm has been coded to send NZ applicants to the interstate interview round2. I hope it's not so dumb but we never know.
 
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That^ being the case and you being dual Aus/NZ citizen, yes I think you can tick NZ citizen to not get UNSW bonded.

Normally your local status is determined by your Y12 school's location, NSW home address is not relevant.
But there is a possibility UNSW interview selection algorithm has been coded to send NZ applicants to the interstate interview round2. I hope it's not so dumb but we never know.
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Thanks for the advice, helpful as usual!
My Y12 school was in NSW, so local applicant.

To be helpful myself, perhaps I’ll call UNSW about this and see what they have to say, regarding when NZ citizen local applicants are interviewed and receive offers. I’ll report back here after I get to that. However, the existence of Special Category Visa for NZ citizens means that I’d hardly be the first local applicant with only NZ citizenship.
 
Hey I got a 2980 and 7 GPA (92 ish WAM)

Any chance you would know if people got any UNSW med interview offers with those scores or close to that? And anyone have a rough idea at my chances of UNSW interview?

I saw an interview offer on MSO for 99.6 and 2950 last year on the 2023 Interview Offers forum
 
Hi Guys,

I just wanted to ask, when were the UNSW undergraduate interview dates last year for local NSW non rural students? And are the interviews this year face-to-face or are they online, and which one of these was it like last year? Also, what are some predictions for when there are interviews this year for non-rural NSW applicants? Thank you.
 
Hey guys,
On the UNSW website it says that the minimum entry for undergrad in the Gateway scheme is 87.00 raw ATAR and 91.00 selection rank. Does this mean that everyone who is eligible for Gateway is afforded a minimum of 4 selection points?? Also, is the selection rank capped at 99.95? Can you go over the 99.95 threshold if your points are compounded enough?
 
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Gateway scheme is 87.00 raw ATAR and 91.00 selection rank. Does this mean that everyone who is eligible for Gateway is afforded a minimum of 4 selection points?? Also, is the selection rank capped at 99.95?
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The wording means you need *both* 87+ raw and 91+ post-adjusment. Examples 88 raw + 2 adjustment = 90, or 86 raw + 6 adjustment = 92, both are not sufficient.

Yes it's capped at 99.95.
 
For the MAP, when you apply as a non standard applicant, the portal asks what your GPA or wam is. What if you will just finish one year of your undergrad at the end of the year, in which case one does not know their final tertiary result?
 
Hi, I was wondering what my chances are for UNSW med with a 6.625 GPA (1 FTE) and 98% UCAT (3280)? ATAR was above 96 threshold.

Thanks!
 
Aspiringmed said:
For the MAP, when you apply as a non standard applicant, the portal asks what your GPA or wam is. What if you will just finish one year of your undergrad at the end of the year, in which case one does not know their final tertiary result?
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You should give the WAM as of the date you do the MAP, even if it's only semester. Make sure it's 70+ WAM otherwise a non-human system might mistakenly reject you early.

But whatever you indicate there won't matter since UNSW will use the end-of-year GPA provided by UAC directly from your uni records.

cherry19 said:
Hi, I was wondering what my chances are for UNSW med with a 6.625 GPA (1 FTE) and 98% UCAT (3280)? ATAR was above 96 threshold.
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100% chance for an interview, around 50/50 for a place offer.
On the whole UNSW interviewees have ~33% offer chance, 50/50 is an improvement thanks to your 98%ile UCAT.

(Btw 50/50 is ten times better than UNSW giving DrLMG 5% chance, she said thank you UNSW I won't even come to talk to you 😂 )
 
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100% chance for an interview, around 50/50 for a place offer.
On the whole UNSW interviewees have ~33% offer chance, 50/50 is an improvement thanks to your 98%ile UCAT.

(Btw 50/50 is ten times better than UNSW giving DrLMG 5% chance, she said thank you UNSW I won't even come to talk to you 😂 )
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Oh wow thank you those chances are much better than what I initially thought, you've given me hope haha! 😂
 
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