MBChB 2023 entrance information
Anthony Winter made this Official Information request to University of Auckland
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From: Anthony Winter
Dear University of Auckland,
Please provide the following information regarding domestic student applications to the MBChB program through the General admission category, for 2023 entrance.
Please provide data separately for First Year (FY) and Graduate applicants where applicable. GPA refers to the GPA used for entrance ranking, i.e. composite core paper & Clinical Selection Test GPA for FY applicants and overall program GPA for Graduate applicants.
1. Number of applicants (both FY and Graduate)
2. Number of applicants offered interviews (both FY and Graduate)
3. GPA cutoff for interview offer (both FY and Graduate)
4. Number of General seats available
5. Number of General seats filled (both FY and Graduate)
For successful applicants (both FY and Graduate):
6. Median GPA
7. Lower quartile GPA
8. Upper quartile GPA
9. Lowest GPA
10. Median UCAT score
11. Lowest UCAT score
12. Median MMI score
13. Lowest MMI score
For unsuccessful applicants (both FY and Graduate):
14. Highest GPA
Yours faithfully,
Anthony Winter
From: Landon Watt
University of Auckland
Dear Anthony,
I refer to your request of 8 January 2022. Parts 5-14 of your request are
refused under 18(g) of the Official Information Act 1982(OIA), on the
basis that the University does not hold these admissions statistics yet.
2023 MBChB admissions are still in progress. The response to the rest of
your request follows.
“1. Number of applicants (both FY and Graduate)”
Number of general FY applicants: 395
Number of general Graduate applicants: 238
“2. Number of applicants offered interviews (both FY and Graduate)”
Number of general FY applicants offered interviews: 181
Number of general Graduate applicants offered interviews: 214
“3. GPA cutoff for interview offer (both FY and Graduate)”
FY – 6, Graduate – 6.
“4. Number of General seats available”
94. Note that unallocated places from other admissions schemes (i.e. the
Regional Rural Admissions Scheme or Undergraduate Targeted Admissions
Schemes) may be made available to the General Admissions category in
accordance with the University’s Undergraduate Targeted Admission Schemes
Policy and Procedures
([1]https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/about-us/a...)
You have the right to make a complaint to an Ombudsman if you are
dissatisfied with this response.
Yours sincerely,
Landon Watt
Legal Advisor
Office of the Vice-Chancellor
University of Auckland
From: Anthony Winter <[2][FOI #21535 email]>
Sent: Sunday, 8 January 2023 4:41 PM
To: legal <[3][University of Auckland request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - MBChB 2023 entrance information
Dear University of Auckland,
Please provide the following information regarding domestic student
applications to the MBChB program through the General admission category,
for 2023 entrance.
Please provide data separately for First Year (FY) and Graduate applicants
where applicable. GPA refers to the GPA used for entrance ranking, i.e.
composite core paper & Clinical Selection Test GPA for FY applicants and
overall program GPA for Graduate applicants.
1. Number of applicants (both FY and Graduate)
2. Number of applicants offered interviews (both FY and Graduate)
3. GPA cutoff for interview offer (both FY and Graduate)
4. Number of General seats available
5. Number of General seats filled (both FY and Graduate)
For successful applicants (both FY and Graduate):
6. Median GPA
7. Lower quartile GPA
8. Upper quartile GPA
9. Lowest GPA
10. Median UCAT score
11. Lowest UCAT score
12. Median MMI score
13. Lowest MMI score
For unsuccessful applicants (both FY and Graduate):
14. Highest GPA
Yours faithfully,
Anthony Winter
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