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[kenkap]

how much atar is required for medicine at USYD? are there ANY bonus points schemes that include this course?? (for my cousin)

 

[jet]

Medicine at USyd is a postgraduate course, which means you have to already have done another degree before you can complete the course. They do have a special undergraduate pathway for HSC students who get an ATAR of 99.95, although this is a very difficult thing to do. There are no bonus points for that pathway either.

 

[lawstu]

Medicine at USyd is a graduate-entry undergraduate course, not a postgraduate course.

Each year, about three dozen students enter via the provisional pathway, which requires an ATAR/UAI of 99.5, a semi-formal interview, an audition, and taking HSC music subjects in secondary school for the B.Mus./M.B.B.S or an ATAR/UAI of 99.95 and a semi-formal interview for all other combined medicine programs (B.Sc.(Adv.), B.A.(Hons.), B.Com., B.Eco., B.Med.Sci.).

And no, there are no bonus point schemes for this pathway (and the graduate-entry one, which involves doing passably well in university studies, an admissions test, and a multiple-station interview). If there were, it would reasonable to expect that they increase the threshold for admission but that's not possible. In any case, bonus points would mask the truly brilliant and also dilute the meritocratic means by which the best are admitted and offered scholarships recognising their hard work.

See http://sydney.edu.au/current_students/student_administration/admissions/eaps.shtml and http://sydney.edu.au/current_students/student_administration/admissions/broadway_scheme.shtml for two schemes that might apply to your cousin. Maybe he/she shouldn't look to do medicine or medicine via the undergraduate-entry pathway or medicine at USyd.


Just remembered that there are provisions for ATSI students, provided they take the B.Sc.(Adv.)/M.B.B.S. or M.Med.Sci./M.B.B.S. courses. The university and federal government are trying to address the shortage of ATSI medicos. I've stopped reading the med school alum mag or keeping up to date with everything, but there may be something for graduate-entry ATSI guys too.

 

[Riproot]

If you're ATSI (Aboriginal or Torres Straight Islander) than you can get into combined med at USyd with and ATAR around 95 (could be less as long as its above 90).

 

[Riproot]

Just remembered that there are provisions for ATSI students, provided they take the B.Sc.(Adv.)/M.B.B.S. or M.Med.Sci./M.B.B.S. courses. The university and federal government are trying to address the shortage of ATSI medicos. I've stopped reading the med school alum mag or keeping up to date with everything, but there may be something for graduate-entry ATSI guys too.

you just added that in as I posted. (((