Unsw Med First Round Interviews!! (3 Viewers)

[babydoll_]

Don't forget about those late round interviews people.. you know, those ones around early Jan... the dude talked about it at the Med lecture on Open Day

 

[ND]

Originally posted by deyveed

If we don't all get in...who is? Where are the Weisys, the turtle_xxxx's, the RageagainstBOS's?
Who are the people that will get into Med easily in this forum?

Don't forget, 3 of the med students on this board got UAI's of 99.95, .90 and .85.

 

[Huy]

Originally posted by funkychickie
I meant u got the idea!! not the acceptance email- not that i dont reckon ull get one!! haha

Ohh LOL!

Hehe, I'm like most people here... I'm DEFINATELY not 98-99 material, but as Lexi has mentioned:

Originally posted by Lexicographer
I'm not even sure I'll scrape the 95 they want

That's what I'm thinking too... but I'll see how it goes with UMAT results and any (if any) Interviews.

Wouldn't it be disappointing IF:

1. You aced UMAT
2. You aced the interviews

BUT you didn't achieve the required UAI of 95+?
That can happen... someone who's just really good at UMAT, has great oratory skills, great personality, etc... but say, got 93.00.

Now that would annoy me,

I'd rather be rejected for the interviews (meaning I "failed" UMAT)and receive 95+ UAI

hehe.

 

[babydoll_]

I got the letter version of the two emails today... should i be happy, sad or neutral?

 

[Huy]

Originally posted by babydoll_
I got the letter version of the two emails today... should i be happy, sad or neutral?

neutral.

you can be sad once it's all over and you dont get accepted,
but happy that you had the opportunity to give it a go
afterall, you did try your best

 

[elizabethy]

yeah i think we shud relax n c wat happens......i dun think i even passed the umat!!!!!
but if i do get a call for the main round interviews .......i dunno wat i will do......

 

[deyveed]

Argh!
People are starting to play pranks at my school.
They're saying that they've got the email already so when we go and check to see nothing's there, they get to see our disappointed faces.
Oh well...I guess i'm going to be disappointed anyhow.

 

[273C]

I did pretty in UMAT.
Hopefully can do reasonablely well in UAI

 

[babydoll_]

Do you KNOW you did well or do you think you did?
Nobody I know has gotten their results yet

 

[Ragerunner]

I want to apply for scholarships but i have to attach my report which i won't get until 4 days before the closing date. And the post office doesn't work on a weekend.

What should i do? not give the report ?

 

[nerdd]

i got a letter! yay haha
i'm not deprived anymore!

 

[Constip8edSkunk]

isnt there an option where u can send in the report at a later date?

 

[Huy]

Originally posted by babydoll_
Do you KNOW you did well or do you think you did?
Nobody I know has gotten their results yet

I think this person thinks they performed well, (unless they "know" they did, but they're just waiting for the confirmation from UNSW for Interviews/ACER for UMAT results) but I don't think he/she has their UMAT results yet

 

[Lexicographer]

I know I did well in the UMAT, and I know I'll be fine for the interview. But, like Huy said, I'll probably end up like one of those with an insufficient UAI.

I know how overconfident I sound, but the UMAT was, to me, just so straightforward...except section III of course. Still, I haven't done homework in 8 years, so now's the time to start praying for that 98.00!

 

[Huy]

You are very confident there Lexi
UMAT results determine the Interview/selection of candidates.
Interview performance is just one part of three.

You know about the UAI, so that's not an issue.
But I'm worried about your "except Section III" comment, because I am assuming that all sections are weighted equally? Or rather, they would have to take into consideration the creme de la creme of Section III as well as those who performed extremely well in Sections I and II.

(That is, all three sections).

1. UMAT results
2. Interview performance (depends on #1)
3. UAI (depends on the HSC)

I'm not doubting you, but if (say) you had:

Section I - 90% (approximation, I know they "scale" the raw marks though)
Section II - 90%
Section III - 15% (I'm not saying that you got 15...)

But taking that example, they would consider other candidates who got, say 50% in Section III as well? (Even though the second candidate had 85% and 85% respectively? -- I'm not too sure myself).

But good luck! that's all I can say

 

[funkychickie]

i put my preferences in for uac just then YAY!!!!!!!

 

[Huy]

Originally posted by funkychickie
i put my preferences in for uac just then YAY!!!!!!!

Congrats!

# Course code Course name
1 428000 B Med/B Surgery, B Arts/B Medicine/B Surgery at University of New South Wales

That's my number one
Won't tell you the rest, but it's just a range of Med Sci's, Optometry, and some Engineering ones.

 

[deyveed]

Originally posted by Huy
Congrats!

# Course code Course name
1 428000 B Med/B Surgery, B Arts/B Medicine/B Surgery at University of New South Wales

That's my number one
Won't tell you the rest, but it's just a range of Med Sci's, Optometry, and some Engineering ones.

Huy, you putting down Physio and Pharmacy?

 

[Huy]

Originally posted by deyveed
Huy, you putting down Physio and Pharmacy?

Nope.

Only what I've stated above.
Med sci's, Optometry, B eng (ecom, telecom, comp,)
maybe comp sci (adv) too

 

[Lexicographer]

Originally posted by Huy
You are very confident there Lexi
UMAT results determine the Interview/selection of candidates.
Interview performance is just one part of three.

You know about the UAI, so that's not an issue.
But I'm worried about your "except Section III" comment, because I am assuming that all sections are weighted equally? Or rather, they would have to take into consideration the creme de la creme of Section III as well as those who performed extremely well in Sections I and II.

(That is, all three sections).

1. UMAT results
2. Interview performance (depends on #1)
3. UAI (depends on the HSC)

I'm not doubting you, but if (say) you had:

Section I - 90% (approximation, I know they "scale" the raw marks though)
Section II - 90%
Section III - 15% (I'm not saying that you got 15...)

But taking that example, they would consider other candidates who got, say 50% in Section III as well? (Even though the second candidate had 85% and 85% respectively? -- I'm not too sure myself).

But good luck! that's all I can say

When I queried ACER and the Med office at UNSW they gave me a strange response. The three sections are apparently NOT wighed equally, because more people do better in one section than in another etc, hence the scaling provides the universities with a single relative score to use as well as the scaled marks of individual sections. Like in the HSC, you can look at the UAI or the individual subject scores. Both are "scaled" to show something in particular, but not the same thing.

And yes, I thank I may be a little too confident, but I have no clue until next week!