Medical School Admission Statistics
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 Brighton & Sussex, 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
Dear Dr Marshall
Thank you for you Freedom of Information Act request. Please find the
response to your enquiry below and attached.
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.
Data set 1: Groups of applicants
*NB Brighton and Sussex Medical School offers only 1 A100 programme at
undergraduate level. Therefore, no graduate applicant data has been
provided.
+-------------------------------------+
|HOME/EU |2018 |2019 |2020 |2021 |
|-------------+-----+-----+-----+-----|
|Total |1191 |1352 |1148 |1465 |
|applications | | | | |
|-------------+-----+-----+-----+-----|
|Total |115 |205 |180 |418 |
|applications | | | | |
|with | | | | |
|contextual | | | | |
|data/factors | | | | |
|-------------+-----+-----+-----+-----|
|Total invited|511 |692 |667 |470 |
|to interview | | | | |
|-------------+-----+-----+-----+-----|
|Total offers |287 |376 |352 |345 |
|-------------+-----+-----+-----+-----|
|Total number |193 |193 |193 |193 |
|of places | | | | |
|-------------+-----+-----+-----+-----|
|Total number |0 |0 |0 |0 |
|of | | | | |
|deferrals* | | | | |
+-------------------------------------+
+--------------------------------------+
|INTERNATIONAL |2018 |2019 |2020 |2021 |
|--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----|
|Total |489 |579 |385 |510 |
|applications | | | | |
|--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----|
|Total |/ |/ |/ |/ |
|applications | | | | |
|with | | | | |
|contextual | | | | |
|data/factors+ | | | | |
|--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----|
|Total invited |62 |71 |77 |69 |
|to interview | | | | |
|--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----|
|Total offers |27 |24 |23 |20 |
|--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----|
|Total number |10 |10 |10 |10 |
|of places | | | | |
|--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----|
|Total number |0 |0 |0 |0 |
|of deferrals* | | | | |
+--------------------------------------+
*Deferrals are not permitted on A100
+ Contextual data is received/used for Home students only
BMAT Data
Please refer to the separate Excel spreadsheet for this data.
Data set 2: individual applicants
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.
The request asks for information on fee status and full qualification
history for every single applicant across four admissions cycles. This
would be in the region of 4,500-4,900 lines of data. It is not possible
to extract the required information in a straightforward format and so it
would require merging and checking several data sets. This would take
over the 18-hour time limit for the preparation of Freedom of Information
requests, so we have to refuse this section under Section 12 of the
Freedom of Information Act.
Should you wish to seek a review of this response to your request, you
should write to Mr A Wilson, Deputy Secretary, 8th Floor, Cockcroft
Building, Lewes Road, Brighton BN2 4GJ. If this fails to resolve the
matter then you have the right to apply to the Information Commissioner
for a decision.
With kind regards
Katie
Katie Warrener
Data Compliance and Records Officer
Vice Chancellors Office
University of Brighton
8^th Floor, Cockcroft Building
Lewes Road
Brighton
BN2 4GJ
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