Admissions statistics for Medical School Applicants
To: Whom It May Concern
From: Safiy Baig
Re: Request (Freedom of Information Act)
Date: Wednesday 19th 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 2022/23 and 2021/22 intake of students to your medical undergraduate programme.
UKCAT and BMAT (All for international applicants)
• 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 average BMAT scores?
• What was your highest and lowest score for BMAT 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,
Safiya
Dear Safiya,
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...
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 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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