Miss Zoe Allwood
FOI Manager
Maria Costa
By email
Reference: FOI-2023-311
17 May 2023
Dear Ms Costa,
Your request was received on 19 April 2023 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (‘the Act’).
You asked:
I was wondering if you could supply me with some statistics regarding deferred entries for
undergraduate medicine, over the past 3 years (including entries from 2019).
1. the number of deferred entry medicine applicants there are each year
2. the percentage of these deferred entry medicine applicants are successful (for each college)
3. the BMAT scores and UMS averages of these successful candidates.
4. the number of candidates that after having been offered a place, ask to defer an entry
5. the number of successful offers that are deferred
1-3. This information is attached. Please note that the attached document should not be copied,
reproduced or used except in accordance with the law of copyright.
4-5. This information is not held. This aspect of the processes for entry to undergraduate degree
courses at the University is managed locally by each of the individual Colleges, each of which is a
separate legal entity and public authority under the Act.
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Yours sincerely,
Zoe Allwood
