Information Assurance and Governance
Office of the Principal
17 September 2021
Dear Shannon,
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
Our Ref: 307-21
I refer to your enquiry dated 22 August 2021 asking to be supplied information under the
provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (“the FOISA”) in relation to
admission to our BSc (Hons) Medicine A100 degree programme here at the University of St
Andrews.
Your request is:
For BSc (Hons) Medicine A100 for the 2020/21, 2019/20, 2018/19 and 2017/18
admission cycles:
- the number of applications,
- the number of offers made,
- the number of acceptances,
- Number of interviews.
Data for RUK fee paying status only and split into preference route, alongside the
minimum UCAT grades for each route required for interview.
Table1/
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Table 1: RUK Applications, Offers, Acceptances and Interviews to Bachelor of Science
(Honours) Medicine (Full-time Equivalent) by preferred route
Academic
Preferred route
Applications
Offer FTE
Acceptances FTE
year of entry
2018/9
England
141
109
85
No preference (*See note)
53
0*
0*
Scotland
40
23
19
2019/0
England
158
103
78
No preference (*See note)
60
0*
0*
Scotland
58
27
23
2020/1
England
171
95
77
No preference (*See note)
48
0*
0*
Scotland
69
26
20
*Please note, when students are made an offer, it is for either the Scotland or England route
therefore there are no students on the ‘No Preference’ route at this stage
Table 2: Lowest UCAT score of RUK applicants interviewed by route of application
RUK
2020 Entry
2019 Entry
2018 Entry
Applicants
Number
Number
by Route of
Number
Lowest
Interviewed Lowest Interviewed Lowest
Application
Interviewed
UCAT
UCAT
UCAT
Scotland
30
2480
35
2550
33
2550
Route
England
77
2400
63
2560
54
2560
Route
No
47
2400
63
2550
60
2550
Preference
Information not held
As at the date of your enquiry, data pertaining to admission cycle for entry in academic year
2021/22 has yet to be produced and is unavailable at the present time. Section 17 of the
FOISA requires that a Scottish public authority confirms in writing where information
requested of it is not held and notice is therefore given to this effect.
Your right to seek a review of how your information request was managed
If you are not satisfied with the University’s response and/or our reasoning set-out above, you
have the right to request a review of our decision. The timelines in which this right is available
are set out in section 20(5)(a) and (b) FOISA. In broad terms the right to seek a review must
be exercised within 40 working days of receiving this response.
The Information Assurance and Governance team are currently working remotely due to the
Coronavirus pandemic. Any request for review at this time should be sent by email t
o foi@st-
andrews.ac.uk stating:
a) your name and address;
b) details of your original request; and
c) the reasons why you are dissatisfied with our response.
If you remain dissatisfied with how your request for information has been dealt with following
Review, you also have the right to apply to the Scottish Information Commissioner (SIC) for a
decision. In the event of an appeal to the SIC, the Commissioner will generally only be able
to investigate the matters raised in the request for review.
Details on how to make an appeal online to the SIC can be found on their website:
http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/YourRights/Unhappywiththeresponse/AppealingtoCommis
sioner.aspx .
This concludes the University’s response.
Yours sincerely
JUNE WEIR
Information Assurance and Governance Officer
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