Hi all.
I have just currently finished yr 12 and am caught in a dilema. My preferences must be in before 12pm monday morning and i am still caught in two minds. I am thinking of doing the new melbourne model in order to get into medicine. However due to our school's low socio economic standards a program is run with the university of melbourne called the "acess scheme." What this scheme does is lowers the required enter for anyone who is from our school. So for example with bio-med the required enter is 95, but with this program the enter required by will be 85 for anyone under the acess scheme. I was informed of this on open day and those exact figures were given to me.
Now for the real question. To be guranteed entry into the medicine course i know that an enter of 99.90 is required, so therefore does anyone know whether the acess scheme will apply to that above requirement???
Second question how hard is it to acheive a 75% average in bio med and do you think its possible for a student who achieved an enter of 94.3 to acheive this???
Thirdly, with the gamsat I read that two essays must be written, does that mean that your english skills will be assesed??? As i only managed a 30 in english this year and it is clear to me that english is my biggest weakness. So is it assessed??
Thankyou very much for all those who respond. The reason i post on here instead of contacting the university is because i was 100% on engineering until saturday when these questions popped into my mind, however the medicine faculty information centre is closed on weekends, and thus meaning i have between 8.45am and 12.pm on monday to sort this out, and thus i thought that if i could obtain any information from here it would be great.
I have just currently finished yr 12 and am caught in a dilema. My preferences must be in before 12pm monday morning and i am still caught in two minds. I am thinking of doing the new melbourne model in order to get into medicine. However due to our school's low socio economic standards a program is run with the university of melbourne called the "acess scheme." What this scheme does is lowers the required enter for anyone who is from our school. So for example with bio-med the required enter is 95, but with this program the enter required by will be 85 for anyone under the acess scheme. I was informed of this on open day and those exact figures were given to me.
Now for the real question. To be guranteed entry into the medicine course i know that an enter of 99.90 is required, so therefore does anyone know whether the acess scheme will apply to that above requirement???
Second question how hard is it to acheive a 75% average in bio med and do you think its possible for a student who achieved an enter of 94.3 to acheive this???
Thirdly, with the gamsat I read that two essays must be written, does that mean that your english skills will be assesed??? As i only managed a 30 in english this year and it is clear to me that english is my biggest weakness. So is it assessed??
Thankyou very much for all those who respond. The reason i post on here instead of contacting the university is because i was 100% on engineering until saturday when these questions popped into my mind, however the medicine faculty information centre is closed on weekends, and thus meaning i have between 8.45am and 12.pm on monday to sort this out, and thus i thought that if i could obtain any information from here it would be great.