Medicine A100 Admissions statistics

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Dear University of St Andrews,

Under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act, I kindly request some raw data from you regarding A100 applications for the latest available admissions cycle and the one preceding that.

The data I would like to have is as follows:

1) How many of the students admitted were studying A levels?
2) The numbers of applications by country of residence at time of application (N.B by this, I count England, Scotland, Wales and NI as separate) and the number of offers categorised in the same manner.
3) The number of offers not subsequently made firm/insurance
4) For each applicant interviewed (anonymised) I would like to know what A-Levels (or equivalent - in case of Scottish applications, I mean Advanced Highers) they have completed and their UKCAT scores. (i.e Candidate 1 - Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Maths. UKCAT - 3080)
5) The above information to be split into successful and
unsuccessful
6) If #4 cannot be completed for data protection reasons or is simply not available by candidate, a table to be made with numbers
of each subject and percentages
i.e Chemistry - 150 - 95.00%
History - 5 - 3.00%
etc etc
as well as UKCAT in bands of 10 points average (ie 600-610). The total score divided by 4 will suffice for this.
7)In the event that #4 cannot be carried out, I would also kindly request the most common combinations of A-Level subjects to be released with numbers.
8)If any scoring system is used to grade applicants to be invited to interview, then I would kindly request this to be made available to me.

Under Section 11 of the aforementioned Act, I am able to request the form of the data requested and I would like it to be in Excel .xls or .xlsx) format or at least a machine readable format such as CSV.

I thank you in advance,

Yours faithfully,

A Al-Jabir

Freedom of Information, University of St Andrews

Dear Mr Al-Jabir

Thank you for your email below of 28 November, 2011 in which you requested information concerning, Medicine A100 Admissions statistics.

The University will respond to your request as soon as possible and certainly within the 20 working days permitted under section 10 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. As your email was received by the University on 29 November, 2011, the final date for compliance with your request is 30 December, 2011 (this takes into account the public holidays on 30 November, 26 and 27 December, 2011).

The University will contact you should further information be required in order to identify and locate the information you have requested. If additional information is sought from you, the 20 working day period in which the University is required to comply with your request starts from the working day following the date of receipt by the University of the requested clarification. I refer you to sections 1(3) and 10(1) of the Act. The Act is available from the Scottish Information Commissioner’s website at www.itspublicknowledge.info/Law/FOISA/FO...

If the University is not able to provide all of the information you have requested you will receive notification as appropriate:

Guidance about your rights under the Act is available from the Commissioner’s website at www.itspublicknowledge.info/YourRights/Y...

Finally, should you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours sincerely

FOI Officer

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Dear Mr Al-Jabir

I refer to your request for information below and attach the University's response along with the requested data which I trust answers your enquiry.

Regards

June

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June Weir
Freedom of Information Officer
University of St Andrews
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