How are such huge leaps in courses possible?!!!(please read lexiographer,Hipsta_jess) (1 Viewer)

[M_86]

How are such huge leaps in courses possible?!!(please read Lexicographer,hipsta_jess)

Holy shit!!!
How did you guys swing that.

Me: BSc BA Int St (UTS) to MBBS (UWA)

2003 UAI: 79.10
2004 WAM: 69.625
2004 GPA: 5.25 (NSW)

2004 TPS: 5.75 - this is the scale used in WA, it's a little more generous than that in NSW.

Don't know the real cutoff for Medicine, it's not nearly so straightforward as a UAI cutoff.

According to the frigid sticky about transfers your nrsl index or whatever would be something like (91+79)/2=85.
Min UAI for med has been estimated at 91 and that is very conservative.
Which means that you couldnt get in even if you blitzed the gsat, umat or other test that you needed to do.
As well as the interveiw.
How did you swing this.

UAI: 73.30 (2003)
GPA: 5.0 (2004)
Initial Course/Uni: BSc, The University of Newcastle
Transfered Course/Uni: Bachelor of Occupational Therapy, The University of Newcastle
Required UAI for course you transfered to: 92.25

However, for this particular course/uni more than just marks is taken into consideration for NRSL

Same for you Jess.
Your GPA of 5.0 gives a score of 88.
Therefor (88+74)/2=81

 

[thejosiekiller]

this was before uac started taking half ur uai and half of ur uni results btw

 

[M_86]

I think lex transfered in 2004.
Has it changed that recently?
So will my UAI follow me around forever now.

 

[Lexicographer]

Hehehe.

You don't understand the entry criteria for Medicine.

Firstly, I did blitz the UMAT (for reference, the other one is called GAMSAT).

Secondly, you have forgotten that the NRSL c is not placed against the school leaver cutoff, but the NRSL cutoff (in NSW). That said, my UAI didn't count for anything in my UWA Medicine application because I had completed a full academic year of University study - so my (considerably better) uni marks were the only academic markers. 5.50 was the cutoff, I got 5.75 - hence eligibility.

My interview was decent, on the border between 1st and 2nd of three divisions. Also a miracle was involved - seven people above me on the selection schedule were offered places closer to home and turned down their UWA offer.

 

[M_86]

So you are saying that the cut offs are different for NRSL people (Non Recent School Leavers).
If that is true where can I find these cut offs.
Has this been mentioned before.

 

[Emily.]

yeah its in another thread...theyre not released to the public officially

 

[Minai]

So you are saying that the cut offs are different for NRSL people (Non Recent School Leavers).
If that is true where can I find these cut offs.
Has this been mentioned before.

IF you can manage to pry them out of the university's, please post your findings here

 

[M_86]

Can I then assume that my UAI of 76.5 will never get me anywhere if I wanted to do a 90 course?
The MAX NRSL would be 88.75.
Maybe the NRSL is really low for my desired degree of B Psyc at Newcastle.
Does the extra 4 points for going to a local uni apply here.
Is there anything I should know before I loose all hope and threw myself from the nearest cliff (proverbially).

 

[hipsta_jess]

I have absolutely no idea how it happenned, and, really, I'm still in shock
I know a large part of whether or not I got in was based on an interview, but I totally bombed it (think jaws going up and down with nothing coming out, lots of 'umms' and 'ahhs' and so forth), so I don't really know.

 

[hipsta_jess]

oh, and, I doubt the NRSL is low for Psych at Newcastle. And the extra points don't apply to NRSL.

 

[M_86]

After all that.
So what are my options?

 

[hipsta_jess]

I have no idea what you're doing now, but if you want to do psych, get into either a BA or BSc, which will allow you to take psych and a lot of the psych subjects (keep in mind, to do psych as an accredited sequence, you need to do more subjects than a normal major), then blitz the course, get a D average, and get into the psych honours program.

 

[M_86]

I have no idea what you're doing now, but if you want to do psych, get into either a BA or BSc, which will allow you to take psych and a lot of the psych subjects (keep in mind, to do psych as an accredited sequence, you need to do more subjects than a normal major), then blitz the course, get a D average, and get into the psych honours program.

Thats what I thought.
No real option for transfer or anything else other than you have specifed.
But I am doing B sc.
Thankyou for your help.

 

[hipsta_jess]

OMG OMG, BSc at my uni?! Are you doing biology?!

 

[M_86]

No sadly not.
But I am doing all other units in the B psyc.
Or as many as I can as not all of them are offered.
For an APS acredded sequence which lets me be a a psycholigist IF I make honours is.
2*1000 psyc
4*2000 psyc
6*3000 psyc
8*4000 psyc
To make honours the only units that count towards that GPA is my 2nd and 3rd year subjects.
I may do Bio later.
I know that half of my intior post count includes me moaning about transfers.
But Im I to assume that there are no other optiions.
Am I kicking a dead horse.
I think I just need to be told.

EDIT: Yes I must be