Medicine

[superflya]

there's always biomed

[dinukais]

last year a friend got into monash med with 98.95 enter and 92% (or there abouts) umat.

[vexx]

last year a friend got into monash med with 98.95 enter and 92% (or there abouts) umat.

it would have been 93%ile as that was the apparent cutoff.
he probably did quite well on the interview too:)

[naved_s9994]

what was the cutoff for this years entrance...(UMAT)

[rhjc.1991]

91%

[naved_s9994]

91%

thanks

[lakersfan_10]

91%

whoa it went down by a couple of percentiles, i remember 2008 is was 93

[the.watchman]

91%

whoa it went down by a couple of percentiles, i remember 2008 is was 93

Eesh! You would have thought Monash cutoff would go up because of the Melbourne Model!

[the.watchman]

91%

whoa it went down by a couple of percentiles, i remember 2008 is was 93

Eesh! You would have thought Monash cutoff would go up because of the Melbourne Model!

Wouldn't Monash cutoff go down (like it did) because more people applied to Melbourne instead (explains why Biomed went from 95 to ~98) as it requires a lower ENTER?

Good point! I was just thinking that the people who want to launch straight into med would move over to monash, so the cohort would be more competitive.

[NE2000]

I think Monash simply offered more interviews than last year, hence the cutoff lowers.

[vexx]

^ the only cutoff for medicine at monash was the umat which was 90%ile lowered from the previous 93%ile, however the high ENTER requirement and large interview focus remained.

i agree with watchman. the cohort would have been more competitive due to the only undergrad med school in victoria.

[NE2000]

^ yeah that's what I meant.

The UMAT cutoff for interviews lowered simply because they offered more interviews than previously. Remember you get an interview for Monash no matter where it is on your preferences if your UMAT is high enough. I would think that before the Melbourne Model most students aspiring to Melbourne med would still have Monash on their preferences list, even if it was lower, hence I don't think the Melbourne Model itself would have a huge impact on the interview UMAT cutoff, while it probably does have an impact on the final ENTER/interview/UMAT combined score cutoff. I may be wrong though, but that's just my opinion.

[vexx]

yeah they offered more interviews.
the only impact would be to raise the 'combined cutoff' if there's such a thing.
but who knows really, it's only logical that it would have been more competitive.

[rhjc.1991]

meh, I don't think the competition has changed too much ...

Even when there was UoM, people were still selected for interviews based on interview ranks. Now statistically,

2007, 800 selected (89% cut off)
2008, 500 selected (93% cut off)
2009, 650 selected (91% cut off)

So I think it is logically to think that every 150 students they increase/decrease in interview selection there is a +/-1% change.

Anyways, I am sure you will be fine if you score 93%+ this year.

[vexx]

^ the cutoff was 90%ile wasn't it? i know someone who got an interview with exactly 90%ile.

but yeah i'll aim for mid 90%iles but there's no guaranteeing that haha.

what was your umat just curious?