Kia ora Olivia, I acknowledge receipt of your Official Information Act request dated 10 October 2023.

If we have any questions or need to seek clarification on any points we will be in touch soon. Otherwise, we will seek to respond to your request as soon as practicable and no later than 20 working days after the date your request was received (by 8 November 2023). If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of an extension of this timeframe.

Ngā mihi
Jenny

Jenny Shaw
Official Information and Compliance Coordinator | Kaituitui Pārongo Ōkawa me te Tautukunga

Office of the Registrar | Te Tari o Te Pouroki University of Otago | Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo New Zealand | Aotearoa

Kia ora Olivia, please find attached the University of Otago's response to your Official Information Act request dated 10 October 2023.

Ngā mihi
Jenny

Jenny Shaw
Official Information and Compliance Coordinator | Kaituitui Pārongo Ōkawa me te Tautukunga

Office of the Registrar | Te Tari o Te Pouroki University of Otago | Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo New Zealand | Aotearoa

Kia ora Oliva, I acknowledge receipt of your Official Information Act request dated 22 November 2023.

At this stage we are unsure which request the Otago Medical School: MB ChB Admission Statistics 2021 report was attached to. Therefore, could you please provide the link to the full fyi.org.nz request and our response. This means we can compare the requests and the full information provided to each requester. Once we receive your clarification, we will continue processing your request.

We will seek to respond to your request as soon as practicable and no later than 20 working days after the date your request was received (by 20 December 2023). If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of an extension of this timeframe.

Ngā mihi
Jenny

Jenny Shaw
Official Information and Compliance Coordinator | Kaituitui Pārongo Ōkawa me te Tautukunga

Office of the Registrar | Te Tari o Te Pouroki University of Otago | Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo New Zealand | Aotearoa

Kia ora Olivia, I refer to your Official Information Act request dated 22 November 2023.

Our response to you dated 7 November 2023 provided the minimum score of applicants receiving offers for entry into the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MB ChB) programme via the Health Sciences First Year (HSFY) category and the report you provided in your request dated 22 November provided HSFY admission academic score information. Therefore, the two responses provided different data - one provides GPA of applicants receiving offers and the other provides the GPA of applicants who were admitted to the programme. Please note applicants who receive offers may chose not to take up the offer, or an applicant might be admitted under a different sub-category (see section 1. of the report).

I trust that this information will be helpful.

Ngā mihi
Jenny

Jenny Shaw
Official Information and Compliance Coordinator | Kaituitui Pārongo Ōkawa me te Tautukunga

Office of the Registrar | Te Tari o Te Pouroki University of Otago | Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo New Zealand | Aotearoa