Medicine Paths at UWS? (1 Viewer)

[AYOtecno44]

Ok so basically I've been looking at ATAR's and what you need to get to the UMAT and I don't think I'll be up to standard. So i was wondering if I were to go to UWS, what would I have to do in order to be applicable to take the medicine course? I've herd things such as doing courses for a year and then transferring to medicine, is this possible? If so can it be any course? How well do I need to be doing in a course to be eligible to do this? Any and all advice as to how I can get into a medicine course other than through the regular ATAR would be helpful

 

[nottellingu]

You can do any course at uni and transfer.
If you live in the GWS area ull need an atar or 93+ OR a credit avg as well as a umat score of s1 + s2 + 1/2 s3 139.5 (although this may vary year to year) and then you get an interview.

Once you get an interview its 1/3 umat score and 2/3 interview score.

The ATAR or GPA is only a threshold.

If you don't live in the gws then you'll need 95+atar of credit avg and the umat score with the weighting comes to 150.

 

[AYOtecno44]

Ahhh ok so with the option of transferring from a course, what GPA do I have to have? And whats that equivalent to in terms of a percentage?

 

[nottellingu]

Ahhh ok so with the option of transferring from a course, what GPA do I have to have? And whats that equivalent to in terms of a percentage?

A credit average for uws, a credit avg is = to 65 WAM at unsw and i think its the same at uws.

 

[VicerExciser]

so its 95+ atar OR a credit average, not both?

 

[nottellingu]

precisely, nevertheless you need an adequate UMAT (89th percentile I suppose would do the trick) in order to be considered in the first place!

Yeap, more than half the med hopefulls will be cut by late september!

 

[badquinton304]

What if you did hsc last year and got over 95?

 

[VicerExciser]

What if you did hsc last year and got over 95?

you'd still have to do well on the umat i imagine.

 

[AYOtecno44]

In terms of pathways, their is only one course that can grantee you a medicine interview at UWS and that would be the B science (Advanced Science) program.

It's not hard to get in 95.5 ATAR at campbelltown and you would need a gpa of at least 5.5, which is not hard either. but what you need to put your mind to is the UMAT.

The top 6 UMAT scores will be offered an interview; afterward it will be up to the interview.

good luck

When you say guantee me an interview, would I still need to score well on the UMAT?

And also when you say I need a gpa of at least 5.5, does that require me to complete the whole 3 year course? Or just 1st year?

 

[AYOtecno44]

you will be ranked based upon your UMAT and the gpa in 1 yr only

Would I not also be able to undergo the same process in another course other than advanced science? One such as nursing or psychology perhaps?