The academic scholarship is awarded to a certain amount of top ATARs from Greater Western Sydney, if you're not from GWS then a lot of the scholarships are harder to get.5k scholarship /year from UWS.
Thats what they say, but judging from the fact I know *no one* from my cohort with an atar under 97. And the vast majority of school leaver have a 99+ atar, I highly doubt atar doesn't matter.UWS's med program still views ATAR as a threshold e.g. non-GWS people need 95.55 and GWS people only need 93.55.
So ATAR doesn't matter too much.
Med at uws doesnt require regiatration for tutorials and lecturesWell there is:
UWS Medicine is at Campbelltown - a nice and quiet campus/easy to get to (right next to Macarthur square). 5 years of study.
UNSW Medicine is at Kensington - higher student population = better social life, big campus with various libraries to study. 6 years of study.
BOTH have good academics and you'll get your fair share of clinical placements at either university for hands-on work. It really doesn't matter about which university is better - you just gotta make sure you study (don't blame it on your lecturers for not knowing what they're doing), and that which ever university you go to is easily accessible.
OH PS. UWS requires you to be "super ninja" and register for your lectures and tutorials (hence why majority of UWS students do not get the classes they want) whereas UNSW has a lot of classes you can choose from in order to make your timetable. But then again, are you really going to pick a university just because its easier to gain favorable class times and gain satisfactory days off/breaks?
Yeah I can understand where ur coming from, it'd be a hassle for those degrees. But as I said, u dont have to register for ur tutes in med, you're allocated them and then each semester they shift the groups a bit^ I don't know about Medicine... but it applies for Nursing and other faculties. But being an ex student there I can quote that it sucks knowing your friends got into the classes you really wanted.
Uws meddies are pretty separate from the rest of the uni too to be fair, but the lesser proportion of basements means their social life is better lolUNSW med students are isolated from the rest of the uni, they have their classes right on the edge next to the hospital where no one else really goes and their semesters are different to everyone else.
So I would say their social life is pretty shit.
I like the Faculty of Medicine Building at UWS a lot better - maybe because its new and near a lake plus its near Macarthur Square. But UNSW is redeveloping their faculty so...Uws meddies are pretty separate from the rest of the uni too to be fair, but the lesser proportion of basements means their social life is better lol
ah really..Thats what they say, but judging from the fact I know *no one* from my cohort with an atar under 97. And the vast majority of school leaver have a 99+ atar, I highly doubt atar doesn't matter.
Its gotten competitive to the extent that if you dont't have an ayar exceeding 99 or a umat percebtile of 90+, you have minimal chance of getting direct undergrad entry to med anywhere in nsw
Ah milly yes,but tbh she is like the sole outlier and most likely got in cos she killed the interview. I'm talking about the general trend of students, which indicates a median atar approximating 99+, which indicates my point that the calibre of uws students is not massively inferior to unsw meddiesah really..
I met a girl named Milly whose a 2012 uws meddie at Aspire Camp who actually received 93.55 ATAR and a 95-ish UMAT and gained acceptance. So she was right on the border of the "ATAR threshold".
I think your basis is just on the general trend that higher ATAR -> higher UMAT in most cases whereby most people have a higher combination but tbh, I don't think that's the case.. as UWS cannot say that the ATAR is just a threshold yet still consider it and rank people by it.. as that is just misleading.
This is the main positive for unsw imo. Whilst uws probably has a better social life within the med cohort, uws med has poor prospects for involvement with the rest of the uni community simply because its so detachedunsw simply for the social aspects (I can't survive without the social side of uni)