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Dear Yash Belur

Thank you for your request made under the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002 (FoI(S)A) for the following information from the
University of Dundee. 

Your request and our response:

Please can you provide me with the following statistics for the years of
2020 - 2023 entry to the undergraduate Dentistry BDS programme:

1) total number of applications + total number invited to interview +
total made offers + total acceptances (Excluding Contextual and Widening
Participation offers)

2) mean UCAT, highest UCAT and lowest UCAT of those who were invited to
interview (Excluding Contextual and Widening Participation offers) 3)mean
UCAT, highest UCAT and lowest UCAT of those who were made an offer
(Excluding Contextual and Widening Participation offers) 4)mean UCAT,
highest UCAT and lowest UCAT of those who were accepted their offer
(Excluding Contextual and Widening Participation offers).

Please see the table below:

BDS Dentistry (A200)
applicants with no        
contextual factors
         
  2020/1 entry 2021/2 entry 2022/3 entry 2023/4 entry
Applications 420 429 563 654
Invited to interview 235 157 168 257
Average UCAT 2548 2567 2633 2592
Highest UCAT 3060 3060 3180 3200
Lowest UCAT 2040 1970 2120 2130
Offers 107 <5 115 84
Average UCAT 2551 - 2604 2595
Highest UCAT 2980 - 3070 2960
Lowest UCAT 2060 - 2120 2190
Acceptances 45 <5 57 43
Average UCAT 2507 - 2573 2518
Highest UCAT 2910 - 3070 2790
Lowest UCAT 2060 - 2300 2310

Notes              
1. UCAT data is shown where held and represents Total Scores              
for tests undertaken in the year of application only.
2. Please refer to our Contextual Admissions Policy here for              
more information about contextual factors:
[1]Contextual admissions policy | University of Dundee              
3. In 2021/2 there was no intake due to the Covid-19
pandemic.
             
 

Please note that we have not provided any numbers under 5. The University
considers that disclosing these details would potentially lead to the
identification of individuals thus disclosing their personal data and
breaching UK data protection legislation. We are therefore applying the
exemption under Section 38(1)(b) FoI(S)A, Personal information to ensure
that there is no inappropriate release of personal data which would breach
the principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation
and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018.

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FOI Team

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