Dear Hasnat Ali Awan
I acknowledge receipt of your email received by this office on 16 August 2024.
Your request will now be dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and has been allocated reference FOI24-286 which should be quoted in all correspondence. We will respond to your request within 20 working days starting the next working day after receipt, therefore you can expect to receive a response no later than 16 September 2024.
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Swyddfa Ysgrifenydd y Brifysgol
Prifysgol Caerdydd
Ebost : [email address]

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University Secretary's Office
Cardiff University
Email: [email address]

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Dear Hasnat Ali Awan

I am writing in response to your Freedom of Information request dated
16^th August 2024.

For ease of reference, I have reproduced your questions below and set out
our corresponding responses.

I would like to request information about the following questions
regarding your A100 Medicine course. All information required is for the
past 6 admission cycles.

1)What were the UCAT scores for applicants who got invited for an
interview and for those given an offer including the average, lowest and
highest UCAT scores for home students (UK). Also, could you include
separate data for those with contextual offers/UCAT scores.

Please see enclosed document.

2)The total number of applicants that applied, got offered an interview
and received offers

Please see enclosed document.  In accordance with our record retention
schedules we do not hold this information for 2018-19 and 2019-20.

3)A spreadsheet with statistics consisting of GCSEs, predicted A-level
grades, final achieved A-level grades and the total UCAT scores of
applicants. One spreadsheet is for those invited for an interview, and
another is for those who received offers. (You can give the average,
lowest and highest pieces of data)

Please see attached document. We are unable to provide any specific
individual level data. We don’t track predicted A-level Grades, so are
unable to provide this data.

For Offer Made / GCSEs:

Lowest Grade 3
Average Grade 8.64
Highest Grade 9

For Offer Made / A-levels:

Lowest Grade E
Average Grade A
Highest Grade A*

4)How many applicants out of the total students were declined after the
interview and how many of them were from England

Please see attached document.

5) How many contextual offers were available?

We do not make contextual offers, we also do not have a specific quota for
contextualised applicants.

6) Weightage by percentage for each part of the application (UCAT, A
levels, GCSEs, personal statement, work experience, interview)

We are unable to provide a percentage for this, it is a staged process
detailed here in our admissions policy. Please see  [1]Admissions policies
- Public information - Cardiff University and the Admissions Policy for
Undergraduate Medicine Programmes is located under the Other policies for
applicants heading.

7) Will you only be accepting applicants with the highest possible GCSE
grades and what were the average, lowest and highest GCSE and A-Level
grades for those invited for an interview and for those given an offer

FOI requests are for information held by an authority. It is our view that
the creation of the information that you have requested is more than a
simple calculation and in accordance with the Guidance we do not believe
that we are required to do the extra work required to create this
information.  We have provided you with the component information as we
hold it.

Please see enclosed document for average GCSE and A Level information
held.

8)For 2025 entry, I would like to know if contextual offers will be
receiving special consideration in the form of additional points for
ranking purposes and if so, how many?

Our policy for 2025 Entry has not yet been signed off, but will be very
similar to the policy for this year which provides information regarding
contextualised applicants:

[2]https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/__data/assets/...

9)Will there be any additional benefits and support for contextual offered
to applicants such as bursaries, scholarships etc.

For all registered UK funded home students the following [3]bursaries are
available:

Cardiff University Bursary -- £500 per year of study to students with an
assessed household income of less than £35,000.

Together at Cardiff Bursary -- £1000 per year of study to students who are
care leavers, estranged, military experienced and young adult carers

Asylum Seeker Opportunity award (6 awards available) -- Either Asylum
Seekers in receipt of the allowance from the Home Office will receive a
£4000 grant towards course and travel costs per year and tuition fees
covered or Asylum Seekers not in receipt of the allowance from the Home
Office will receive a £12,150 grant towards living, course and travel
costs per year and tuition fees covered.

Next Step Bursary – Either £1000 University owned halls of residence
remission or £500 for Students who have completed the University’s
Widening Participation Scheme, and whose household income is below £35,000

10)What are, if there are any, reduced grade offers for applicants with
contextual offers

We do not make contextualised offers.

11)Success rate for home applicants who were interviewed

 We received approximately 4000 applications, of those 1100 are invited to
interview, and we make around 450 offer for 309 places.

I trust this information satisfies your enquiry.  Should you feel
dissatisfied with this response or the way in which your request was
handled you can request an Internal Review. This should be made in writing
within 40 working days of the date of this email. Please provide your
unique reference number of your request, information on why you are
dissatisfied and any detail you would like us to consider as part of the
Internal Review process. Email your request to [4][email address] where it
will be forwarded to the University’s Data Protection Officer who will be
responsible for overseeing the review.

If you remain dissatisfied following the outcome, you have the right to
apply directly to the Information Commissioner for consideration.  The
Information Commissioner can be contacted at the following address:
Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Further information is available on their
website: [5]Make a complaint | ICO.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in
Cardiff University. If you require further assistance, please feel free to
contact me.

Kind regards,

Swyddfa Ysgrifenydd y Brifysgol University Secretary’s Office

Prifysgol Caerdydd Cardiff University

Ebost : [6][email address]   Email: [7][email address] 

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