Medical School Admission Statistics Correct
Apologies, this below is the correct FOI request. Please ignore previous as it was intended for UCLan rather than UCL.
To whom this may concern,
I hope this email finds you well.
My name is Dr Leeron Marshall, I am a practicing clinician in the UK with a personal and professional interest in medical education. I would like to make a freedom of information request please.
I request 2 data sets. One for groups of applicants and one anonymised per individual applicant. I would like all data to please be provided in a spreadsheet.
1)
Data for groups of applicants
Can I please request the following statistics on applicants who applied to study medicine at UCL, for application cycles relating to the following years of entry: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021:
Please split the data in the following groups:
A100
International undergraduate applicants;
International graduate applicants,
Home undergraduate applicants,
Home graduate applicants.
International means considered international for fee purposes. Home, includes all candidates that qualified as home fees. I understand that in previous years, that includes both UK and EU applicants.
If these exact groups are not available, please provide the data in an equivalent, or similar grouping that you have available. For areas where the data will not apply, please put “NA”.
For each of these 4 groups, and per programme, I would like to know the following information:
-Number of applicants (total)
-Number of applicants (with contextual data/factors)
-Number of applicants interviewed
-Number of offers
-Number of places
-Number of deferrals
BMAT
The following data applied for a) the overall score b) section 1 score c) section 2 score
For students who received an interview (no contextual data/factors), the:
-Lowest and Highest BMAT score
-Interquartile range of BMAT scores
-Mean BMAT score (ideally with standard deviation and variance)
-Median BMAT score
-Mode BMAT score
For students who received an interview (with contextual data/factors), the:
-Lowest and Highest BMAT score
-Interquartile range of BMAT scores
-Mean BMAT score (ideally with standard deviation and variance)
-Median BMAT score
-Mode BMAT score
For students who received an offer (no contextual data/factors), the:
-Lowest and Highest BMAT score
-Interquartile range of BMAT scores
-Mean BMAT score (ideally with standard deviation and variance)
-Median BMAT score
-Mode BMAT score
For students who received an offer (with contextual data/factors), the:
-Lowest and Highest BMAT score
-Interquartile range of BMAT scores
-Mean BMAT score (ideally with standard deviation and variance)
-Median BMAT score
-Mode BMAT score
2)
Per Individual applicant data
I would like to know the following information per individual applicant, in a spreadsheet. One row per applicant.
I understand that at the time of application, the fee status may not always be clear, and if that is the case, please categorise the applicant as “unsure” for fee status and provide the rest of their data.
-Candidate number (any unique identifier) - 1 column
-Undergraduate or Graduate applicant - 1 column
-Course applied for by code (A100, A101 etc) - 1 column
-UK/home or International applicant (fee status) - 1 column
-BMAT score (per section of the exam & overall if available) - 4 columns
-Curriculum (GCE A-levels, IB, CBSE, APs, SAT subject tests, Canadian secondary school, other) - 1 column
-Invited for interview - yes or no, 1 column
-Received an offer - yes or no, 1 column
-If yes, what offer was sent? (grades required to achieve), 1 column
-Accepted an offer for application year - yes or no, 1 column
-Deferred place for the following year - yes or no, 1 column
If Following GCE A-levels, then please provide:
-A Level Grades for each subject (1 column per subject)
-Specify if that grade is predicted or achieved (1 column)
If Following IB, then please provide:
-HL grades per subject (1 column per subject)
-Specify if that grade is predicted or achieved (1 column)
-SL grades per subject (1 column per subject)
-Specify if that grade is predicted or achieved (1 column)
-Overall IB score predicted or achieved
Please provide the equivalent information (predicted or achieved grades) for students who apply with CBSE curriculum, APs, SAT subject tests and Canadian secondary school diploma.
If a student applied with a different curriculum, write “NA”.
If the student has completed GCSEs or iGCSEs, please provide:
-Specify if GCSEs or iGCSEs
-Grades achieved for each subject
If a graduate applicant:
-Degree achieved or predicted
-Degree class
-Degree subject
-Masters (yes or no)
-PhD (yes or no)
For areas where the data will not apply, please put “NA”.
If information is not available for any given year, please provide information for years that are available
Thank you for your time and for your help, it is very much appreciated
VBW
Leeron
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Dear Leeron
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request of 3 November 2021.
Apologies for the delay in responding to your request.
We have completed the information in response to your request for the
medical school admission statistics.
We can confirm that we do hold some information of the description
specified in the first part of your request and this information is
attached in the form of a spreadsheet as requested. Please note that the
information regarding the second part of your request has been withheld on
the basis that it is personal information of third parties, or, if linked
with other personal identifiers in the public domain, would be likely to
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• Numbers of individuals are rounded to the nearest multiple
of five – so if the figure is 102 individuals, this is rounded to 100.
Any number lower than 2.5 is rounded to zero.
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less are not provided, and this includes requests for percentile
information about marks.
• Averages based on 7 or fewer individuals are not provided.
We have identified that there is a risk of the identification of
underlying individuals in the information that you have requested. We
have therefore applied rounding to the number of applications, offers and
acceptances to the nearest multiple of five. The information withheld is
personal information of third parties, or, if linked with other personal
identifiers in the public domain, would be likely to become personal
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