Dear requester,

I refer to your request of 31 December 2024. I apologise for the long delay in replying to your request. The University's response follows.

You have requested the University provide the scores (GPA, UCAT/UMAT, and MMI) of applicants to the University's MBChB Part II under the "Students from Refugee Backgrounds" Undergraduate Targeted Admissions Scheme, broken down by whether the applicant applied under the Graduate or First Year admissions pathway, and whether the applicant was successful or unsuccessful. The University does not provide this kind of information about groups with small numbers of applicants to protect the privacy of those applicants - to seek to avoid that concern, you have requested that the University not break the information down by year but instead provide a list of all scores "from the year the SRB category was introduced up until and including 2024".

We have treated this as a request for data from 2016-2024, as the University's current Undergraduate Targeted Admission Schemes Policy and Procedures (https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/about-us/a...), which provided UTAS for eligible Māori students and UTAS groups including Pacific students, Students with disabilities, Students from low socio-economic backgrounds (low SEB), Students from Refugee Backgrounds (SRB), was approved in 2016.

Your request is refused to protect the privacy of the applicants under section 9(2)(a) of the Official Information Act 1982. Where we cannot provide data about applicant performance for a specific year's admissions for privacy reasons, we cannot avoid this reason for refusal by providing statistics grouping this data together for custom periods.

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
Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland  

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