A100 International
Dear Imperial College London,
I am writing to request the following information for the past 3 application cycles.
1. What is the average BMAT score of an offer holder after interview for an international applicant?
2. Is an AAA seen the same way as A*A*A?
3. What is the average BMAT score of an applicant offered an interview?
4. What are the statistics of receiving an interview and being accepted (international)
5. Would a higher BMAT score more likely guarantee a place at Imperial for medicine? Will application officers rank applicants based on BMAT.
Yours faithfully,
Ms Chloe Tan
Dear Chloe Tan,
Thank you for your interest in admissions to Imperial College.
Information about all Imperial College courses can be found on the College’s website. This includes full details of the entry requirements and selection process as well as contact details for admissions enquiries.
Imperial College publishes undergraduate admissions statistics for the past 5 completed admissions cycles. These include:
- Number of applicants, offers and places confirmed
- Average BMAT Scores
- Details of A level, IB and STEP offers made
- New entrants' achieved A level and IB grades
- Number of applicants, offers and places confirmed by nationality
- Number of applicants, offers and places confirmed by gender
- Number of interviews conducted
The published information can be accessed at the transparency pages of our website: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/study/ug/apply...
In addition, Imperial College has compiled an information sheet which addresses the most frequently asked questions we receive regarding admissions to Medicine (A100). Please see the Freedom of Information FAQs on the ‘Introducing our Imperial College London Medicine degree’ web page: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/stud...
Information is exempt from the Freedom of Information Act (Section 21) if it is already reasonably accessible to the requester.
The Freedom of Information Act created a right to access information to enable scrutiny of public authorities in the public interest. Section 14(1) of the Act aims to protect public authorities by allowing them to refuse any requests which have the potential to cause a disproportionate or unjustified level of disruption and are therefore deemed vexatious. While we appreciate that your request was made in good faith and was not intended to cause disruption, we are entitled to consider whether a request has a value or serious purpose in terms of the objective public interest in the information sought and to weigh that against the burden that would be placed on the organisation by having to produce that information. The public interest being the public good, not what is of interest to groups of or individual members of the public.
The College's view is that there is no public interest value in the information you have requested that is not included in the published information referred to above that would justify the College devoting resources to producing the information. The College’s view is that any legitimate public interest in admissions figures to our MBBS programme is met by the extensive information already in the public domain set out above. We are therefore refusing the elements of your request not covered by the published information in reliance on Section 14 of the Act.
Yours,
Freedom of Information Team
Imperial College London
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