anyone got into med with an UAI lower than 97? (1 Viewer)

[Frigid]

Originally posted by walla
or to rephrase, if you're arrogant as all hell, why hide it?

haha hey walla! you're a smart cookie as well, so why hide it

say hi to opal for me

 

[spin spin sugar]

Originally posted by Minai
I remember Lazarus posted some stats on the UAI's of the 2002 med intake..there were quite a few with UAI's in the low 90's and even one student that got 89.xx

yeah, a good family friend of mine does interviews etc for med, works at UNSW and he told me about the 89 guy. i think it's great that there's still an opportunity for ppl despite uai.

 

[queenie]

the 89 uai guy woulda got in rurual though... yea?

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

Oi.. dun diss that 100 guy .. hes better to me than other ppl in the UNSW course.. pfft..
im guessing it was cos he may hav been honest in his interview cos i kno that sum ppl werent so honest..

generalli most med schools (adel, melb and NSW) take the top 10% of interstate (UAI, ENTER, TER) ranks..

 

[spin spin sugar]

Originally posted by queenie
the 89 uai guy woulda got in rurual though... yea?

im pretty sure he was from another state actually

 

[iambored]

Originally posted by Frigid
three points:

• 96.40 was the lowest UNSW UAI if memory serves correct.
• yes i was one who rejected med (*vain and special*)
• a UAI 100 person did indeed get rejected by UNSW medicine. the very same person topped the state in phys and chem and came top three in biology. crazzzzzy

rejected?

Originally posted by queenie
i woulda agreed with u if i hadnt seen wat the guy said abt himself in the paper "i was dissapointed when the guy from the bos rang me up and he said that i topped the state in phy and chem.. i was like, what happened 2 bio"

yes, admirable.. but freaky

Originally posted by walla
or to rephrase, if you're arrogant as all hell, why hide it?

lol


how can someone know they are so good they will top the state? beats me.

 

[paper]

he did come 7th in the world.......

but didnt the herald take him out of the context?

 

[Frigid]

Originally posted by iambored
rejected?

i got a final round bonded offer from UNC and i said nah...

so technically i tell ppl i rejected med for UTS law coz UTS roxxors my world and law just roxxors.

 

[Ribbon]

I think what they are trying to weed out in the interview stage is the people who are doing medicine cos they got a high enough mark and they *can* not because they nessarily want to, or are interested in medicine. Its just like 60%+ of the people in my law classes didn't nessarily want to do law (I always have since primary school) they just did it cos they didn't know what else to do and they could (ie got a high enough UAI). The only difference is because medicine is so specialised (ie medicine you do medicine but ppl with a law degree can go into most any field cos it is considered 'general') and because the places are limited (and probably also cos doctors are alot more important than lawyers ) they interview to weed out the ppl that are doing it cos they 'can' not cos they 'want to'
It is the same as I think usyd either has started or was thinking about interviews for vet for the same reasons...

I think that makes sense?

 

[Survivor39]

Originally posted by queenie
let me guess... this person went 2 ruse and decided 2 do optom?

Originally posted by Frigid
yeap.

even though i haven't met the guy, i'm a fan of his

No, He's doing Med at Melbourne. If Vicent was the one you two are talking about...

 

[felafel]

i sorta know the guy . . . vincent mok

no, he didn't fill in his form incorrectly, but yes, it's a shock he didn't make it in

 

[ameh]

would it be possible if i didn't do chem,phy or bio and still get into med?

 

[Blackalicious]

um, i dont think you can

 

[Raiks]

I highly doubt it, and even if you could manage, it'd be a nightmare actually doing the course without the background knowledge which most med courses consider as assumed knowledge.

 

[simmic]

Originally posted by amoz_lilo
would it be possible if i didn't do chem,phy or bio and still get into med?

nope
isnt it a pre-requisite to do at least two science subjects??

 

[queenie]

Originally posted by simmic
nope
isnt it a pre-requisite to do at least two science subjects??

nope, the only pre is english (advanced or higher) .. and chem is considered 'relevant' ... i think they only accept pple in that do at least one science (probably chem?) for the HSC.

 

[Skywalker]

Originally posted by Calculon
Did you know that one of the guys who got 100 filled out his UAC form wrong and didn't put med first, so he missed out

I don't know where you people got that misconception from. That's not true.

Originally posted by amoz_lilo
would it be possible if i didn't do chem,phy or bio and still get into med?

Absolutely. There are people in first year who did no sciences for the HSC yet still made it into med.

 

[Skywalker]

Originally posted by simmic
nope
isnt it a pre-requisite to do at least two science subjects??

Originally posted by queenie
nope, the only pre is english (advanced or higher) .. and chem is considered 'relevant' ... i think they only accept pple in that do at least one science (probably chem?) for the HSC.

Both wrong. See above.

 

[quarkfire]

so the advanced english or higher requirement isn't true?

 

[queenie]

Originally posted by quarkfire
so the advanced english or higher requirement isn't true?

no, thats def true