Melbourne MD

[Panicmode]

Also, I heard you can only apply to 3 med schools at a postgrad level?

Can anyone confirm?

I can't imagine that be true. Are the authorities that manage interstate application the same as those which organise Victorian application? If not, how could they possibly know?

[Russ]

Yes they are. Every university except USyd (long story here, they kinda got kicked out) is part of a consortium and they all run through ACER/GMAC and now GEMSAS.

Heh. Up until this year, it was 3 universities max and 1 interview max (in reality if you didn't interview at your first preference you wouldn't get an interview at #2 and #3).

This year, GEMSAS was created to address this problem. You can now list 6 preferences, but you will still only receive 1 interview. Interview scores will be standardized and passed on to lower preferences if you don't receive an offer from the school you interviewed at. That's the good news. The bad news is that because of this, it's now much harder to get an interview/place, because you're competing against everyone, not just the people who put your school at #1.

[jasrulz63]

Average GPA/GAMSAT for Melbourne's MD for an interview last year was 6.6 and 65. Though remember that's interview, and not an actual place, as they interview the top 150% (from memory). If you take all the different places into account, that score would give you a lower end score for CSP place, and you'd have to go very well in the interview.

[Russ]

Is that from that GEMSAS page I can no longer find? If it is, can you link me to it?

[Aurelian]

Just out of curiosity, what exactly does a "6.6 GPA" equate to in the 1-100 scale? And how you go from one to the other...? Just a little confused because I'm used to the "out of 4.0" GPA system most of America uses.

I found the following on Wikipedia under Australia;

High Distinction = 7
Distinction = 6
Credit = 5
Pass = 4
Fail level 1 = 1
Fail level 2 = 0

Is this what's being used here?

[Russ]

Something I've been meaning to do for a long time

[Thelimz]

now i have another question, i've set up my university account but can't log in to enrol in my course, it keeps coming up with wrong username or password. what do i do?

[jasrulz63]

Is that from that GEMSAS page I can no longer find? If it is, can you link me to it?

http://www.gemsas.edu.au/offers-2012/

[Edmund]

now i have another question, i've set up my university account but can't log in to enrol in my course, it keeps coming up with wrong username or password. what do i do?

Use this to reset your password - https://accounts.unimelb.edu.au/manage/login/student

[Thelimz]

tried that about 5 times, still doesn't work

[VivaTequila]

^same as above, going to try again now.

And also, reading this thread has blown my mind. I never thought MD at Melb could have been so competitive, and in hindsight I haven't the slightest idea how I was so near sighted.

Now I'm having doubts... how hard is University? I'm just hoping that it pulls itself together much like VCE did...

[Russ]

If you got 90+ then you won't fail university because the work is too hard.

[Thelimz]

With the melbourne MD, I'm assuming most of the guys doing biomed at melbourne will apply for the MD, so my question is how many of the biomed guys are accepted, usually, and what would be a GAMSAT cutoff score be or in other words what is a good GAMSAT score in order to have a good chance of being accepted?

[totaled]

i remmeber reading this somewhere on VN, i THINK there are maybe roughly 200-300 biomed places, and about 2000 science places, but the intake for the MD is only about 300, however, some of these are allocated to say international students, or those wich the chancellors scholars, so there really is only about 150 places for all the biomed/science undergraduates.

though, someone correct me if im slightly off

[Russ]

How many biomedicine students are accepted is irrelevant to your chance of being accepted (for reference, it's about 50% / 33% for the two classes that have graduated). The average score that got an interview last year was 65 GAMSAT and 6.6 GPA.

In terms of numbers, about 350-400 biomed students graduate and probably twice that number of science students. There are also a lot of applicants from other universities, since the UoM MD is one of the more prestigious ones. The intake for the MD is about 250 CSPs (of which 25% are BMPs) and about 60 FFPs. Given that maybe 40 of those places will go to Chancellor's Scholars, it drops to 210 CSPs (still including BMPs).