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Admission statistics for Medicine via Access to HE and A Levels

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Dear University College London,

I would like to request the following data relating to all Medicine courses (i.e. both the A100 and A101 - not including graduate entry medicine) offered by your university.

I am requesting the data for candidates who received offers for one of the aforementioned medicine courses in the UCAS admissions cycle: 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021 admissions cycles (I refer to these candidates as ‘the offerholders’).

I request the following data for each admissions cycle:

1) The number of applicants who were either planning to complete, or had completed, an Access to Higher Education diploma as their most recent qualification.

2) The number of offerholders who were either planning to complete, or had completed, an Access to Higher Education diploma as their most recent qualification.

3) The average, highest, and lowest UCAT/BMAT (whichever is applicable) score of offerholders who were either planning to complete, or had completed, an Access to Higher Education diploma as their most recent qualification.

4) The number of applicants who were either planning to complete, or had completed, A Levels as their most recent qualification.

5) The number of offerholders who were either planning to complete, or had completed, A Levels as their most recent qualification.

6) The Average, highest, and lowest UCAT/BMAT (whichever is applicable) score of offerholders who were either planning to complete, or had completed, A Levels as their most recent qualification.

I look forward to hearing from you. Let me know if I can be of assistance in any way.

Yours faithfully,
Alex Smith

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Keyte, Josh, University College London

Dear Alex,

 

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request of 20^th October 2021. 

 

We have completed the compilation of information in response to your
request regarding the Admission statistics of Medicine via access to HE
and A-levels.

 

We can confirm that we do hold some information of the description
specified in your request and this information is provided below.

 

OUR RESPONSE

 

1) The number of applicants who were either planning to complete, or had
completed, an Access to Higher Education diploma as their most recent
qualification.

(Only those that completed the Access to Medicine from the College of West
Anglia are included below because through the 2020/21 cycle this was the
only accepted access diploma, and we did not keep records on other access
programmes as they did not meet our entry requirements).

Year                       Count

2018/19                5

2019/20                0

2020/21                5

 

2) The number of offer holders who were either planning to complete, or
had completed, an Access to Higher Education diploma as their most recent
qualification.

 

Year                       Count

2018/19                0

2019/20                0

2020/21                0

 

3) The average, highest, and lowest BMAT (whichever is applicable) score
of offer holders who were either planning to complete, or had completed,
an Access to Higher Education diploma as their most recent qualification.

 

Year                       Count

2018/19               N/A

2019/20               N/A

2020/21               N/A

 

4) The number of applicants who were either planning to complete, or had
completed, A Levels as their most recent qualification.

 

Year                       Count

2018/19                1780

2019/20                2065

2020/21                2185

 

5) The number of offer holders who were either planning to complete, or
had completed, A Levels as their most recent qualification.

 

Year                       Count

2018/19               630

2019/20               675

2020/21               440

 

6) The Average, highest, and lowest BMAT (whichever is applicable) score
of offer holders who were either planning to complete, or had completed, A
Levels as their most recent qualification.

 

Year                      

2018/19               Average – 4.9, 5.2, 3.3A              Highest scores
in each section -   9.0, 9.0, 5.0A                Lowest scores in each
section – 3.2, 3.2, 2.0B     

2019/20               Average – 5.2, 4.8, 3.2A              Highest scores
in each section -   8.2, 7.7, 5.0A                Lowest scores in each
section – 3.8, 3.4, 2.0B

2020/21               Average – 5.6, 5.7, 3.4A              Highest scores
in each section -   9.0, 9.0, 5.0A                Lowest scores in each
section – 3.9, 3.9, 2.5B

 

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