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UTAS UTAS Medicine: Entry Information and Discussion

Hi I am an international student and offered a place in Launceston campus. I am looking for details on student support, lectures and community in general to help me decide from current students. Pl help
 
Moggiemed24 could I please ask what your ATAR and ISAT were? Thank you!

moggiemed24 said:
Hi I am an international student and offered a place in Launceston campus. I am looking for details on student support, lectures and community in general to help me decide from current students. Pl help
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Oops didn't click the reply button. But congrats on the offer nevertheless!
 
Buster135 said:
Oh wow, and you had to wait till round 3 with those stats?
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No I didn’t realise UTAS had medicine until after closure of round 2. Don’t laugh at me for being such an idiot 😭😭😭😭😭

And also I will be withdrawing from UTAS if Monash accepts me
 
Hi im wondering if anyone finished their entire med degree (5yrs) in launceston could pls share their experience. Like i know the anatomical dissection is only like an elective there. Thanks so much
 
cecilia said:
Hi im wondering if anyone finished their entire med degree (5yrs) in launceston could pls share their experience. Like i know the anatomical dissection is only like an elective there. Thanks so much
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I don’t think anyone has. From what I’ve heard 2026 will be the first cohort in Launceston
 
Hello, applied as a domestic student but graduated high school overseas. My application says decision pending - additional selection criteria. Apparently "a decision has not yet been made as to whether you have met the additional selection criteria for this course". Was wondering if anyone knew what this criteria is as I checked the course description and can't find it. Thanks!
 
ghostboxcarton said:
Hello, applied as a domestic student but graduated high school overseas. My application says decision pending - additional selection criteria. Apparently "a decision has not yet been made as to whether you have met the additional selection criteria for this course". Was wondering if anyone knew what this criteria is as I checked the course description and can't find it. Thanks!
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Just taking an educated guess - since Australian ATARs will be out in December, they're likely holding off your decision until all applicants are ranked by ATAR (or equivalent) and UCAT?
 
kk11 said:
Just taking an educated guess - since Australian ATARs will be out in December, they're likely holding off your decision until all applicants are ranked by ATAR (or equivalent) and UCAT?
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I thought the same thing, but then it should say that I would be competing with other applicants for an offer. So not sure, just know that I'm missing something as prefaced here Course preference status explanations - University of Tasmania application help. Sent them an email. Will call them on Monday as well, that's just always a pain cause of the time difference haha. Anyway, thanks for your response!^^
 
ghostboxcarton said:
I thought the same thing, but then it should say that I would be competing with other applicants for an offer. So not sure, just know that I'm missing something as prefaced here Course preference status explanations - University of Tasmania application help. Sent them an email. Will call them on Monday as well, that's just always a pain cause of the time difference haha. Anyway, thanks for your response!^^
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For what it's worth, I think UTAS is using a 'borrowed' version of UAC and hence changing the messages might be difficult for them, so it's like leasing College Board's website for their uni use

They're pretty good with email replies - I found that submitting a message through their website gets the fastest response.

Also UTAS admissions admin staff sometimes make mistakes - for example they asked me to prepay my tuition of $480k - but it turned out to be 48k in the end as the deposit. This took me a few back-and-forth rounds of emails to fix up.

I hope you get an offer - it's a 5 yr program with (from what I heard) lots of clinical experience
 
kk11 said:
For what it's worth, I think UTAS is using a 'borrowed' version of UAC and hence changing the messages might be difficult for them, so it's like leasing College Board's website for their uni use

They're pretty good with email replies - I found that submitting a message through their website gets the fastest response.

Also UTAS admissions admin staff sometimes make mistakes - for example they asked me to prepay my tuition of $480k - but it turned out to be 48k in the end as the deposit. This took me a few back-and-forth rounds of emails to fix up.

I hope you get an offer - it's a 5 yr program with (from what I heard) lots of clinical experience
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Ohhh, I see. Yess, I'll just wait for their response and take it from there! And 480k is INSANE I would actually pass out if someone told me that even by mistake. I don't think someone could cover that if they sold an arm AND a kidney LOLLL
Thanks so much, I've heard lots of good things about the program, fingers crossed!
 
ghostboxcarton said:
Hello, applied as a domestic student but graduated high school overseas. My application says decision pending - additional selection criteria. Apparently "a decision has not yet been made as to whether you have met the additional selection criteria for this course". Was wondering if anyone knew what this criteria is as I checked the course description and can't find it. Thanks!
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Hope you got an update on this.

I was a domestic applicant last year and my application read the same message until i received my offer!

May be likely they simply haven’t updated it :)
 
bethanbince said:
Hope you got an update on this.

I was a domestic applicant last year and my application read the same message until i received my offer!

May be likely they simply haven’t updated it :)
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Yepp, just got a reply, they said that they don't need anything right now and will assess my application after year 12 results are released in December. So our first hypothesis was proven true I guess!
 
An update. I got my offer from UTAS this morning. Unfortunately, it came a bit too late. I have sold my house in Hobart on Monday and wish it could come a touch earlier!
 
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