Often this first round is mainly for Tasmanians also! I’m sure you’ll get one in the coming roundsAlso for reference:
Course: Med
Offer received: No
Uni: UTAS
UCAT: 77%ile, 710 sjt
ATAR: 95.35 (gap year)
Special Considerations: Rural, NSW
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UTAS UTAS Medicine: Entry Information and Discussion
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ltwilson.25
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Apologies for what seems like spam!
Thank you for the optimism, I hope with everything I possibly can I get an offer somewhere!
Is it often that marks like mine will get through for Tasmania, given I am rural interstate rather than Tasmanian? I understand it is an impossible question to answer, but could you possibly please redirect me to a page containing previous entry scores? Appreciated so much
Often this first round is mainly for Tasmanians also! I’m sure you’ll get one in the coming rounds
Not the last few years (according to offers data shared here). Last year we had Qld, NSW, and Vic at least with ‘first round rural offers’ posted here.
Aus Med and Dent Place Offers 2019 - Collated Data
LAST UPDATED: 07/02/2019, approximately 5pm James Cook University - Medicine Phone calls to some successful applicants on Jan 10th 7.00, BMP, intending to accept UNSW 6.70, CSP 99.75, CSP, intending to accept UNSW 99.65, RA2, CSP 99.55, RA3, BMP, second round 6.45, RA3, BMP 99.35, RA3 99.35...
medstudentsonline.com.au
Hmm I personally think you should gain entry because you’re rural. The reason I say this is because I had a friend last year who got in with <40 umat and a 96.5 ATAR. She’s Tasmanian but I think if she got in with those marks you should be fine. I’m fairly certain of it and will be personally upset for you if you don’t. There’s plenty of offer rounds yet to come
Hmm I personally think you should gain entry because you’re rural. The reason I say this is because I had a friend last year who got in with <40 umat and a 96.5 ATAR. She’s Tasmanian but I think if she got in with those marks you should be fine. I’m fairly certain of it and will be personally upset for you if you don’t. There’s plenty of offer rounds yet to come
It’s trickier to predict rural entry this year as they removed the three questions you previously had to answer that were taken into account for offers. It’s hard to know exactly how they will rank applicants and it may be quite different this year.
ETA: also, did your friend accept her offer? did she just finish first year?
Of course, that’s very true. I shouldn’t be giving this advice because UTAS are so unpredictable with their offers...
No, she took a gap year and declined the offer, she also deferred an offer from JCU.
Okay, this is going to sound harsh but I’m actually going to suggest the UTAS offer wasn’t true. It wouldn’t be the first time that’s happened (people making up offers because they feel embarrassed or whatever). It’s just that UTAS have historically been very rigid on needing UMAT 150+ to be eligible, including rural applicants. I know several local rural applicants personally with sub-150 UMATs who were declined and told it was because of their UMAT, including one with 148 last year, and one with 145 a couple of years ago who took a gap year, re-applied with higher UMAT and same ATAR and received an offer. Needing 150 minimum for UMAT was one thing UTAS were always pretty consistent on.
Hmm yeah I would probably agree with you on that, it does seem extraordinarily far fetched. I think I never questioned it just because you can’t really if you know what I mean? As in if a friend says that you just say congrats and go off and cry in a corner because you scored like 22%ile
but yeah that would totally make sense, especially considering there would’ve been lots of interstate rural students with scores above 50%ile that would’ve missed out. I think I just lacked a bit of critical thinking there... ah well.
REGULAR JOE
Regular Member
Given the rural offers already given out is it too soon to say thay utas have changed how applicants are ranked from umat only in the past years to applicants being ranked on atar only (and ucat is just a threshold?)
Yes, way too soon.
We have only one or two pieces of data reported here to work from (I personally know of others, IRL, but not their scores), and rural may not reflect general entry (it hasn’t in the past).
CrackedBat
Member
2 x UTas offers received before 25/11/19. CSP not BMP but conditional on ATAR 95+. Rural QLD RA3&RA2. UCAT 57%ile & 62%ile. I don't have the UCAT subscores because they are both away atm sorry.
Hi all, so I'm rural (nsw) with a UCAT of 96%ile and an atar which is gonna be above 95.0, yet I haven't heard from UTAS yet. Do you reckon I might get a CSP in later offer rounds? Why might it be that I haven't heard anything yet?
Also, is the 95.0 atar a hurdle? It appears that they rank applicants on the basis of ATAR
Also, is the 95.0 atar a hurdle? It appears that they rank applicants on the basis of ATAR
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I would assume that because your atar hasn't been released yet they aren't going to make offers until then. But just hold tight; they will come afterwards.
CrackedBat
Member
ATAR predictions were not requested when these 2 offers were made. QLD OPs will not be released until 14/12 hence the conditional offer (95+ required). Did you apply via the UTas Rural Application Process? (RAP)
UTAS make conditional offers to rural applicants based on them then going on to meet an ATAR hurdle of 95.0.
I had wondered if this would change this year, given the updated wording on the website, but I think we can assume, given what’s been reported here by users with conditional offers, that that’s not actually the case. This further suggests to me that the rural application process stands separate to the general entry pathway and that the information on the website does not apply. Consequently, and particularly given the removal of the written application as of this year as a factor for entry, it remains unclear exactly how rural applicants are selected.
I suggested elsewhere that someone submit a freedom of information request...
The only thing I can think of as an explanation, actually no, three things!, are:
1. You didn’t complete/submit the RAP form.
2. Your high UMAT means they’re holding off on seeing whether you will actually qualify for a general pathway offer in Jan (with confirmed ATAR).
3. There is a third component (similar to the previously used written application) that we are unaware of.
ltwilson.25
Member
Hey LMG, probably asking a question which has been given an answer previously.
For UTAS MBBS admission, after thresholds are met for atar and UCAT, is rural admission granted based on highest atar or highest UCAT?
For UTAS MBBS admission, after thresholds are met for atar and UCAT, is rural admission granted based on highest atar or highest UCAT?
Read above: the short answer is we don’t know but it doesn’t appear to be either of those things in isolation.
REGULAR JOE
Regular Member
Hey LMG, I am a domestic student who has completed Year 12 overseas. By any chance would you know if I'm elligible(meaning will I be considered) for tomorrow's offer round?