2025 Bachelor of Optometry entry statistics
Mr Al Sulaimi made this Official Information request to University of Auckland
The request was successful.
From: Mr Al Sulaimi
Dear University of Auckland,
Please provide the following information for general entry to the optometry (BOptom) programme at University of Auckland for 2025.
1. Minimum number of seats available (for both first year and graduate)
2. Number of applicants (for both first year and graduate)
3. Number of applicants offered interviews (for both first year and graduate)
4. Number of seats filled 2025 (for both first year and graduate)
5. Lowest core GPA for successful applicants (for both first year and graduate)
6. Lower quartile core GPA for successful applicants (for both first year and graduate)
7. Median core GPA for successful applicants (for both first year and graduate)
8. Upper quartile core GPA for successful applicants (for both first year and graduate)
9. Highest core GPA for unsuccessful applicants (for both first year and graduate)
10. Interview core GPA cut-off (for both first year and graduate)
12. Lowest MMI score for successful applicants (for both first year and graduate)
13. Median MMI for successful applicants (for both first year and graduate)
14. Highest MMI score for unsuccessful applicants (for both first year and graduate)
Yours faithfully,
Mr Al Sulaimi
From: Landon Watt
University of Auckland
Dear Mr Sulaimi
We acknowledge receipt of your request for information of 22 October 2025.
The University will respond to your request as soon as practicable, within
a maximum time limit of 20 working days from the date of your request
(unless that time limit is extended in accordance with the Official
Information Act 1982).
Can you please confirm that you are seeking information concerning
admissions to the University of Auckland's Bachelor of Optometry programme
commencing in 2025?
Yours sincerely,
Landon Watt
Legal Advisor
Office of the Vice-Chancellor
Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland
show quoted sections
From: Mr Al Sulaimi
Dear Landon Watt,
Yes I confirm that I am seeking information concerning admissions to the University of Auckland's Bachelor of Optometry programme commencing in 2025?
Yours sincerely,
Mr Al Sulaimi
From: Landon Watt
University of Auckland
Dear requester,
As consultations necessary to make a decision on your request are such
that a response cannot reasonably be given within the original time
limit, the University has extended the time limit for your request until
18 December 2025 under section 15A(1)(b) of the OIA. We will respond to
your request as soon as reasonably practicable.
You have the right to make a complaint to an Ombudsman if you are
dissatisfied with this extension.
Landon Watt
Legal Advisor
Office of the Vice-Chancellor
Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Mr Al Sulaimi <[FOI #32631 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2025 2:48 PM
To: Landon Watt <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Official Information Act request - UoA ref
2025-OIA-0261-Sulaimi
Dear Landon Watt,
Yes I confirm that I am seeking information concerning admissions to the
University of Auckland's Bachelor of Optometry programme commencing in
2025?
Yours sincerely,
Mr Al Sulaimi
show quoted sections
From: Landon Watt
University of Auckland
Dear Mr Sulaimi,
I refer to your request of 22 October 2025. The University's response
follows.
"Please provide the following information for general entry to the
optometry (BOptom) programme at University of Auckland [commencing in]
2025."
"1. Minimum number of seats available (for both first year and graduate)"
Information on available places is publicly available on the University’s
Programme and course limitations selection criteria page here:
[1]https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/about-us/a...
more specifically, in this document:
[2]https://www.auckland.ac.nz/assets/about-...
This constitutes a refusal of your request under section 18(d) of the OIA.
Note that available places are not split by first year/graduate.
"6. Lower quartile core GPA for successful applicants (for both first year
and graduate)
8. Upper quartile core GPA for successful applicants (for both first year
and graduate)"
We do not hold the requested quartile statistics. These parts of your
request are refused under section 18(g) of the OIA.
We will provide the information we hold for parts 2-5, 7, and 9-14 of your
request as soon as reasonably practicable. Your request is refused under
18(g) to the extent we do not hold the requested information.
You have the right to make a complaint to an Ombudsman if you are
dissatisfied with the University's response.
Yours sincerely,
Landon Watt
Legal Advisor
Office of the Vice-Chancellor
Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Landon Watt <[email address]>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2025 11:17 PM
To: Mr Al Sulaimi <[FOI #32631 email]>
Cc: legal <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Official Information Act request - UoA ref
2025-OIA-0261-Sulaimi
Dear requester,
As consultations necessary to make a decision on your request are such
that a response cannot reasonably be given within the original time
limit, the University has extended the time limit for your request until
18 December 2025 under section 15A(1)(b) of the OIA. We will respond to
your request as soon as reasonably practicable.
You have the right to make a complaint to an Ombudsman if you are
dissatisfied with this extension.
Landon Watt
Legal Advisor
Office of the Vice-Chancellor
Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Mr Al Sulaimi <[FOI #32631 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2025 2:48 PM
To: Landon Watt <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Official Information Act request - UoA ref
2025-OIA-0261-Sulaimi
Dear Landon Watt,
Yes I confirm that I am seeking information concerning admissions to the
University of Auckland's Bachelor of Optometry programme commencing in
2025?
Yours sincerely,
Mr Al Sulaimi
show quoted sections
From: Farleigh Quinlivan
University of Auckland
Dear Mr Al Sulaimi,
Further to our email of 18 December 2025, please see attached the
information we decided to release in response to your request of 12
November 2025.
‘Please provide the following information for general entry to the
optometry (BOptom) programme at University of Auckland for 2025.
2. Number of applicants (for both first year and graduate)’
The requested information is attached. Please note, that the
undergraduate numbers include both domestic and international applicants.
The graduate numbers include only domestic applicants.
‘3. Number of applicants offered interviews (for both first year and
graduate)’
The requested information is attached.
‘4. Number of seats filled 2025 (for both first year and graduate)’
The requested information is attached. Please note that ‘seats filled’
includes those who matriculated into the programme (accepted their offers
and enrolled).
‘5. Lowest core GPA for successful applicants (for both first year and
graduate)
7. Median core GPA for successful applicants (for both first year and
graduate)
9. Highest core GPA for unsuccessful applicants (for both first year and
graduate)
12. Lowest MMI score for successful applicants (for both first year and
graduate)
13. Median MMI for successful applicants (for both first year and
graduate)
14. Highest MMI score for unsuccessful applicants (for both first year and
graduate)’
The requested information is attached. Please note that ‘successful
applicants’ includes all applicants who received an offer, regardless of
whether they accepted that offer and/or enrolled in the programme.
Yours sincerely,
Farleigh Quinlivan
Things to do with this request
- Add an annotation (to help the requester or others)
- Download a zip file of all correspondence (note: this contains the same information already available above).
Offensive? Unsuitable?
Requests for personal information and vexatious requests are not considered valid requests for Official Information (read more).
If you believe this request is not suitable, you can report it for attention by the site administrators
Report this requestAct on what you've learnt
Similar requests
Number of people who applied to biomedical science and courses in second year.
To University of Auckland by Megan
