Dear Ghaus

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FOI/2020/004

17 January 2020

Name:  Ghaus Sohail

By email to: [FOI #631342 email]

Dear Ghaus,

Thank you for your email of 2^nd January requesting information from the
University of Liverpool.  Colleagues have provided the information
requested below.

I would like to know about the number of people who had applied, number of
interviews given out and the number of offers given out for the Dental
Surgery BDS course for the past 3 admissions cycles.  I would also like to
know the average UCAT score of those applicants that were invited to
interview for the past 3 admissions cycles.

+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Admission | Total | Total | Total | Average |
|Cycle | Applications | Interviewed | Offers | UCAT |
|--------------+-----------------+----------------+----------+-----------|
|2017 | 675 | 337 | 168 | 1877 |
|--------------+-----------------+----------------+----------+-----------|
|2018 | 783 | 333 | 155 | 2463 |
|--------------+-----------------+----------------+----------+-----------|
|2019 | 800 | 311 | 190 | 2478 |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Kirsty Rothwell
Freedom of Information / Data Protection Officer 
Legal & Governance

University of Liverpool, Foundation Building, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L69
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