BDS Admission Statistics

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Dear University of Manchester,

I would like to request some information about the BDS Dentistry admissions.

Please provide me an excel sheet with the following information for each of the latest 3 admission cycle for the BDS Dentistry course:

1) UCAT score of each applicant invited for interview
2) The average UCAT score of all home applicants invited to interview
3) The average UCAT score of applicants that received an offer
4) The cut-off & threshold score for UCAT

The latest three admissions cycles being:
2019/2020
2020/2021
2021/2022

If you do not yet have data for 2020/2021 or 2021/2022, please could you instead provide the data for the 2018/2019 cycle.

Yours faithfully,

Sara Rodrigues

MTRS FOIA, University of Manchester

Dear Sara,

I am writing to acknowledge your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 received by The University of Manchester today, our reference as per the subject line.

The University will respond to your request within 20 working days.

Kind regards

Sharon

Sharon Glen | Information Officer | Information Governance Office | Directorate of Compliance and Risk |Professional Services | G7 Christie Building | The University of Manchester | Oxford Road | Manchester | M13 9PL | www.manchester.ac.uk

Please contact me via Teams or email as I may no tbe in the office to take your call.

We are all responsible for protecting personal data held by the University, including who we share that data with. Stop and think before you send your email.  For further guidance see: www.dataprotection.manchester.ac.uk

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MTRS FOIA, University of Manchester

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Dear Sara,

 

Thank you for your request for information received by The University of
Manchester on 12 September 2022 which was as follows:

 

I would like to request some information about the BDS Dentistry
admissions.

 

Please provide me an excel sheet with the following information for each
of the latest 3 admission cycle for the BDS Dentistry course:

 

1) UCAT score of each applicant invited for interview

2) The average UCAT score of all home applicants invited to interview

3) The average UCAT score of applicants that received an offer

4) The cut-off & threshold score for UCAT

 

The latest three admissions cycles being:

2019/2020

2020/2021

2021/2022

 

If you do not yet have data for 2020/2021 or 2021/2022, please could you
instead provide the data for the 2018/2019 cycle.

 

The University has now considered your request and our response can be
found below.

 

1) UCAT score of each applicant invited for interview

The UCAT scores of each applicant are deemed to be their personal data and
therefore exempt from disclosure by virtue of the listed exemption at
Section 40 (2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) – third party
personal data. This email serves to act as a refusal notice for this part
of your request in accordance with Section 17 (1) of the FOIA.

 

2) The average UCAT score of all home applicants invited to interview

2019/2020 -2622.801

2020/2021- 2761.4

2021/2022- 2757.033

 

3) The average UCAT score of applicants that received an offer

2019/2020 2629.588

2020/2021 2704.601

2021/2022 2793.385

 

4) The cut-off & threshold score for UCAT

The threshold/cut-off for each year. Scores lower than this would be
considered holistically.

2019/2020- 2610

2020/2021- 2640

2021/2022- 2730

 

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Kind regards

 

Sharon

 

Sharon Glen | Information Officer | Information Governance Office |
Directorate of Compliance and Risk |Professional Services | G7 Christie
Building | The University of Manchester | Oxford Road | Manchester | M13
9PL | [3]www.manchester.ac.uk

 

Please contact me via Teams or email as I may no tbe in the office to take
your call.

 

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We are all responsible for protecting personal data held by the
University, including who we share that data with. Stop and think before
you send your email.  For further guidance see:
[5]www.dataprotection.manchester.ac.uk

 

 

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Dear MTRS FOIA,

Thank you for all the information. I would further like to enquire what it means to assess an application holistically, and how this differs from the initial selection for interview process.

Yours sincerely,

Sara Rodrigues

MTRS FOIA, University of Manchester

Dear Sara,

 

There is useful information about our Dentistry applications process
online [1]here.  For example:

 

This page explains the meaning of the holistic assessment: 
[2]https://www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/study/d...

 

And this page has more information about interviews: 
[3]https://www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/study/d...

 

There is information here about contextual assessment to support Widening
Participation: 
[4]https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/under...

 

You are welcome to submit a further FOI Request if you have additional
queries.  However you may find it helpful to contact the Admissions team
directly at [5][email address]

 

Kind regards,

 

Polly

 

 

My usual working days are Wednesday morning, Thursday and Friday.  I
job-share with Paula Egerton who usually works Monday, Tuesday and
Thursday morning. 

 

Polly Smith | Information Officer | Information Governance Office |
Directorate of Compliance and Risk | Professional Services | G.004 |
Christie Building | The University of Manchester | Oxford Road |
Manchester | M13 9PL | 0161 275 7789 | [6]www.manchester.ac.uk.  Please
contact me on Teams or email as I may not be working in the office to take
your call.

 

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Dear MTRS FOIA,

Thank you very much for all your help.

Yours sincerely,

Sara Rodrigues