Damn Chemist Warehouse! I reckon Pharmacy is gonna be like 70. I picked it just for the lols.
I reckon it should go down due to international students are taking all of the Engo jobs. They have to decrease it, in order for us Aussies to have a "fair go"... but that's just my prediction.
If more people are applying and there will be less places, the cut-off will be higher.
It's not exactly from Chemist Warehouse, my sister did Pharmacy is it's due to an oversupply of graduating pharmacists and apparently UTS has opened a Pharmacy school as well.
MBBS has consistently been one of the, if not the most popular course that students choose. This makes the cut-off consistently high but not only does it require a high ATAR but also a high UMAT score (except USYD which is 99.95 each year).
Do people usually do because their parents told them to do it, and therefore it is usually popular? (asian stereotype much)
Parents, that's possible but not necessarily. A lot of doctors love their job and have no regrets taking MBBS but there are some that don't and regret the amount of work they must do even for the pay they get.
There is a good reason for why that occured. Previously universities were capped at the amount of offers they could give to applicants. This was removed last year meaning university places became uncapped, creating more places in courses which is why there was a drop in atar entry scores for a range of subjects.
So do you think the uncapping of last year will affect this year's ATAR cut-offs, I'm talking about all courses?
I doubt that they will drop much lower, and if they did, it would be nothing like the drops in atar seen across the board last year. If anything i'd say that atar entrance ranks will remain the same if not rise this year as the trend of increasing university applicants continues.