Widening Participation to Medicine

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Dear University of Liverpool,

I was doing some research on widening participation in medicine and was wondering if you could help me with some questions I had.

For the last two admissions cycles could you provide me with:
1)The total number of applicants to the A100 Medicine course
2)The total number of applicants who were offered an interview
3)The total number of students who received an offer
4)The total number of applicants who were part of the Realising opportunities program and how many of them received offers.
5)The total number of applicants from Widening Participation backgrounds and how many of them received offers.

Yours faithfully,

[name removed] [name removed]

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FOI/2020/350

25 September 2020

 

Name:  [name removed] [name removed]

By email to: [FOI #688231 email]

 

Dear [name removed],

 

Thank you for your email of 29^th September requesting information from
the University of Liverpool.  Colleagues have provided the information
requested below.

 

For the last two admissions cycles could you provide me with:

 

The total number of applicants to the A100 Medicine course

The total number of applicants who were offered an interview

he total number of students who received an offer

 

┌─────────────────────┬─────────────────┬────────────────┐
│Entry year* │ 2018 │ 2019 │
├─────────────────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────┤
│Total applications │ 2446 │ 2788 │
├─────────────────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────┤
│Total interviews │ 1607 │ 1928 │
├─────────────────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────┤
│Total offers │ 984 │ 1046 │
└─────────────────────┴─────────────────┴────────────────┘

* Figures for 2020 entry are not yet collated. These should be available
if you wish to make a new request from October 2020.

 

The total number of applicants who were part of the Realising
Opportunities program and how many of them received offers.

The total number of applicants from Widening Participation backgrounds and
how many of them received offers.

 

┌─────────────────┬──────────────────────┬────────────────┐
│Entry year* │Total applicants │ Total offers │
├─────────────────┼──────────────────────┼────────────────┤
│2018 │ 27 │ 15 │
├─────────────────┼──────────────────────┼────────────────┤
│2019 │ 25 │ 20 │
└─────────────────┴──────────────────────┴────────────────┘

* Figures for 2020 entry are not yet collated. These should be available
if you wish to make a new request from October 2020.

 

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Yours sincerely,

 

Kirsty Rothwell
Freedom of Information Officer  / Data Protection Co-ordinator
Legal & Governance

University of Liverpool, Foundation Building, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L69
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