Dear University of St Andrews,

This FOI relates to the medicine A100 programme for undergraduate entry.

1. GCSE entry requirements: I understand you require five grade 7s, and GCSE biology. Are there any other GCSE subjects you require? Do you require a grade 7 in biology? If you require other subjects, what minimum grades do you require in each?

2. Selection process: I understand you rank UCAT for interview, but your website says you look at academic performance, the reference and work experience on the personal statement. Do you routinely sift out applicants before ranking their UCAT if they don’t meet these three terms. Academic performance - do you decline applicants even if they meet your entry requirements? Reference and work experience - do you decline applicants based on these?

3. Please could you tell me how many applicants you have declined for the reasons in point (2) - ie academic performance meeting entry requirements but not sufficiently strong (if you do this), poor reference and poor work experience? Please can you stratify this number for each individual reason ie. X declined due to academic performance, Y poor reference and Z poor work experience? Could you provide this for 2018, 2019 and 2020 entry (2017/18, 2018/19 and 2019/20 admissions cycles respectively).

4. Interview: Please could you outline your scoring mechanism for interview, and the number of points (or similar) you award for each SJT band? Please could you also provide the mean, median and minimum scores required for an offer for the entry years 2018, 2019 and 2020 (2017/18, 2018/19 and 2019/20 respectively?)

I appreciate this is a long request and know the pandemic may delay response. So long as I know it’s in the pipeline (I receive your acknowledgement) I’m happy to wait a reasonable length of time.

Yours faithfully,

Brandon Tillson