Admissions statistics for Medical School Applicants
To: Whom It May Concern (University of Nottingham School of Medicine)
From: Stanley Moore
Re: Request (Freedom of Information Act)
Date: Monday 3nd July 2023
Dear Sir/Madam,
Good Morning
I hope this email finds you well. I am a prospective international student planning to apply for medical school in the UK this year. I would like to get them as much information as possible on what I will need to decide where to apply and for my application. It would be greatly appreciated if under the Freedom of Information Act, you could please provide answers to the following questions for your 2022 and 2021 intake of students to your medical undergraduate programme. The most important answers to me are the UKCAT and BMAT ones, but as much information as possible would be greatly appreciated.
UKCAT and BMAT
• What was your BMAT cut off scores? (or if no set cut-off, what was the lowest score an interview was offered for?)
• What was your UCAT cut off scores? (or if no set cut-off, what was the lowest score an interview was offered for?)
• What was your average BMAT scores?
• What was your average UCAT scores?
• What was your highest and lowest score for BMAT that received an offer?
• What was your highest and lowest score for UCAT that received an offer?
Grades
• What was the average profile of a successful student for their GCSE results?
• For successful candidates, what were their predicated A level grades?
• Achieved A level results- how many students were offered places based on Achieved A level results (i.e. those on gap years)?
• Deferred entries- how many deferred entries were made?
• AS results- what was the average successful AS profile ?
Admission statistics for international students
• How many applications did you receive each year for the course?
• How many interviews did you offer each year for the course?
• How many offers did you give to local students?
• How many offers did you give to International students?
• How many International students did you accept without any pre-A level qualification (i.e. GCSE/IGCSE but only on the basis of their school transcripts, as for countries like Russia, China and Hong Kong, there are no pre-A level examinations).
• Will IGCSE be weighted the same way as GCSE since it has no longer been regulated by OFQUAL from April 2020?
• What are your English language, GCSE and A-level requirements?
Many thanks in advance and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Best Wishes,
Stanley Moore
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Dear Stanley Moore
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I have been asked to contact you to clarify a part of your request.
Your question-What was the average profile of a successful student for
their GCSE results- we just want to ensure we have interpreted this
correctly, are you asking for average scores for all successful
applicants?
I will not be able to take this matter further without this extra
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Yours sincerely,
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Dear Catherine Allin, Nottingham University,
Regarding your request for clarification: "Your question-What was the average profile of a successful student for their GCSE results- we just want to ensure we have interpreted this
correctly, are you asking for average scores for all successful
applicants?"
I understand you score the highest 8 GCSEs of candiates when selecting for interview as per public information on your website. I would like to know what the average score was for a successful candiate in the last 2 years of admissions cycles.
Yours sincerely,
Stanley Moore
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Dear Stanley Moore
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Dear Stanley Moore
Thank you for your request for information received on 28 July 2023.
Please find attached our response to your request.
Yours faithfully
Catherine Allin
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Dear Nottingham University,
The attached reponse provided is 0 Kilobytes, suggesting the file is corrupt. Could you please send it again?
Yours sincerely,
Stanley Moore
Thank you for letting me know, my sincere apologies, I am not sure how
this came about, but please do let me know if you have any further issues.
Kindest regards,
Catherine Allin
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Information Compliance & Security.
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Dear Nottingham University FOI team,
Given your UCAT scoring system, I would like to rephrase my UCAT cut off criteria question to be:
What was the lowest score/cut off score for an interview, and lowest score that recieved an offer in terms of your system?
I feel the answer would be clearest in terms of what number out of 12, and what number out of 60 totalling what score.
Yours sincerely,
Stanley Moore
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