25 September 2023
By email: [FYI request #23967 email]
Tēnā koe Oscar,
I refer to your information request dated 28 August 2023 made under the Official Information Act
1982 (the Act). You have requested the following information:
‘…the minimum average score (as a percentage) of HSFY students, under the General category
specifically, who gained entry into the BDS programmes of 2023, 2022 & 2021 (To clarify, this
would mean these students completed HSFY in 2022, 2021 & 2020 respectively).
Whilst the previous request would look at the minimum score of applicants who were
eventually offered a place after initially being wait-listed, I would also like to know the
minimum percentage score of HSFY applicants under the General category who received a
first-round offer to Dentistry (over the same years), regardless if they then accepted this offer
or not.’
Subject to the following comments, please see below the information you have requested:
• At the University of Otago, we do not use “first round” terminology. We would instead say
that these were the minimum average academic scores to receive an offer on the date that
offer outcomes were first released (usually on or around 18 December of the preceding year).
Minimum average academic score to receive an offer overall (whether on the date that offer
outcomes were first released or via the waitlist) to enter the 2021 – 2023 BDS programme via the
HSFY General category:
2021
2022
2023
85.57
88.71
85.14
Minimum average academic score of students to receive an offer on the date that offer outcomes
were first released for the 2021 – 2023 BDS programmes via the HSFY General category:
2021
2022
2023
96.00
93.71
93.71
I trust that this information will be helpful.
Ngā mihi,
Jo Pearson
Official Information Act Administrator
Office of the Registrar