Information Assurance and Governance
Office of the Principal
22 September 2023
Dear Ibrahim,
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
Our Ref: 358-23
I refer to your enquiry dated 3 September 2023 asking to be supplied with admission statistics
for the A100 Medicine degree programme for years 2019 to 2023 under the Freedom of
Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (“the FOISA”). The information requested is being released
to you in full as detailed in the response below.
a) Applicants per cycle (separate statistics for Home and UK applicants);
b) Interview number per cycle (separate statistics for Home and UK applicants);
c) Offers per cycle (separate statistics for Home and UK applicants); and
Table 1: Number (Full Time Equivalent) of Applications, Interviews and Offers for A100 for
Entry in 2019/20 – 2022/23
Fee Status
2019/0 2020/1 2021/2 2022/3
Applications
598
549
493
661
Home
Interviews
230
223
249
347
Offers
186
198
225
306
Applications
276
288
463
562
RUK
Interviews
163
152
161
145
Offers
130
121
105
95
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d) Average UCAT threshold (separate statistics for Home and UK applicants).
Table 2: Average UCAT Scores of those interviewed and offered a place for A100 for entry
in 2019/20 to 2022/23
Fee Status
2019/0 2020/1 2021/2 2022/3
Interview Average UCAT
2768
2815
2854
2802
Home
Offer Average UCAT
2776
2819
2856
2804
Interview Average UCAT
2794
2895
3032
3079
RUK
Offer Average UCAT
2813
2904
3044
3083
Note – Widening Participation applicants have 10% uplift on UCAT scores.
Information not held
At this stage in the academic calendar, admissions data for entry in 2023/24 is unavailable.
Once the admission cycle is complete, the information we hold goes through a process of
interrogation and validation before an extract can be taken and a dataset created for reporting
purposes. This work has not yet been undertaken but if you would like to come back to us
towards the end of October when it is anticipated that this data will be available we will be
able to process this data for you then.
Section 17 of the FOISA requires that a Scottish public authority confirms in writing where
information requested of it is not held and notice is therefore given to this effect.
Your right to seek a review of how your information request was managed
If you are not satisfied with the University’s response and/or our reasoning set-out above, you
have the right to request a review of our decision. The timelines in which this right is available
are set out in section 20(5)(a) and (b) FOISA. In broad terms the right to seek a review must
be exercised within 40 working days of receiving this response.
Any request for review at this time should be sent by email to
xxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx stating:
a) your name and address;
b) details of your original request; and
c) the reasons why you are dissatisfied with our response.
If you remain dissatisfied with how your request for information has been dealt with following
Review, you also have the right to apply to the Scottish Information Commissioner (SIC) for a
decision. In the event of an appeal to the SIC, the Commissioner will generally only be able
to investigate the matters raised in the request for review.
Details on how to make an appeal online to the SIC can be found on their website:
http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/YourRights/Unhappywiththeresponse/AppealingtoCommis
sioner.aspx .
This concludes the University’s response.
Yours sincerely
JUNE WEIR
Information Assurance and Governance Officer
