UAI/UMAT for medicine

[partelephant]

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Keep in mind that 99.7 is the MEDIAN so it's certainly possible to get in with UAIs quite a bit lower than that - I know a couple of people with UAIs in the low 90s who got in (although they're rural students and had completed a year of uni so their GPA mediated their UAI).

[nottellingu]

A friend got in with 95.15 and a umat of 215...it is very possible to get in with lower uais provided that you have the umat to compensate. I also know a person that got in with 99.85 and 205 you also get those people in med school as well and thats probably why you get the high medians. I find it hard to believe the median is 99.7 im sorry i aint buying it. The uai cut off in the last year prior to the introduction of umat was 99.75. I doubt it'd stay close to that figure after umat. The median uai is more likely to be around 99.3`. Note the interview is darn important.

[macca91]

Sorry to post on an old thread, but if people are still wondering, what I was told at UNSW open day was that for local entry you need about 98/99 and a good UMAT, but they accept about 5 people with 96/97 and really high UAMT. For rural entry, they accept 91's with really high UMAT, but most are around 96/97 with fairly good UMAT. It's 1/3 UAI, 1/3 UMAT, 1/3 Interivew (for rural its also rural rating, so 1/4 each).

For Newcastle and UWS, I have heard the way it works is that you get over the cut-off then it's entirely on UMAT + interview, can anyone confirm this?

[Casmira]

Originally Posted by bubbly89

It is EXTREMLY unlikely, I'm talking you shouldn't even think about it unlikely that you will get 10 points from EAS. I can think of two people who got those points they are

a) one girl had her brother die of leukemia during year 12
b) a guy driving had a car crash, where two people died 3 weeks before his final exams

Usually the maximum in 5 points, and to get all those five points you have to have a pretty sad case.

Also what you have to remember is that 99.6 or whatever is a median, NOT an average, because if you think about it, if you can get 99.95 or whatever you're obviously smart, hence getting a good UMAT score probably isn't that hard.

The UNSW process is purely a calculation, each area has a mark and the computer generates the outcome.

*my mate got 93-94 uai and her parents divorced = EAS ftw and she got into 99.xx uai requirement for law (However i have read that unsw inflates uai requirements, maybe it does for social sciences too?)

*EAS is very individual and doesn't have to involve everyone around you dying. to actually be accepted into EAS though you would of already had to go through a panel of people to assess if you are worth it.
*when competing for courses with other EAS Students, the higher the uai the more chance you have of getting in. there is no quantitative way to measure someones disability (although some instaces are more obvious i dont think the uni would resort to something like that)

remember the median can generally be higher than the actual average becase you don't consider any outliers. in saying that i think unsw makes it clear on the site that it won't drop below 95