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UTAS clarification and eligibilty

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From: MMS

Dear University of Auckland,
In the previous information that you had released here https://fyi.org.nz/request/25147/respons...
It can be seen that not all mbchb seats are filled, even though there are some spots remaining. For example, 8 LSEB applicants were interviewed and only 4 received an offer, while there were 6 seats in total, meaning that 2 seats remained empty. I would like to know the possible reasons that seats go unfilled, given that gpa requirements are fulfilled as applicants qualified for the MMI. Is there a rank score threshold or cut off point? Or even a ucat and MMI cut off point put in place? Or do all applicants who qualify the GPA requirement of 6.0 receive an offer if they remain within the top 6 ranked & interviewed applicants?

With this, the document specifies next to the applicants section, “this is the number of applicants considered for invitation to interview (it excludes those who were ineligible or had already been declined)”
If the number of applicants excludes all who were ineligible then all all those included in the stats must be eligible applicants. However, not all of these eligible applicants were granted an interview offer. For example, the GPA cut off for LSEB applicants invited to interview was 6.0, and given that the data includes all eligible applicants, all 11 would be expected to be offered an interview as they meet the GPA threshold. However, only 8 applicants were actually interviewed. Would you please be able to clarify this information and/or provide any reasoning behind why all eligible applicants are not interviewed?

For those who apply under multiple categories, are they offered a seat under whichever category they rank the highest in?

What is the process by which UTAS applicants are also considered under the general category? Are those unsuccessful in the general category funnelled into their respective UTAS schemes to be ranked?

What is the lowest UTAS gpa to have received an offer of admission in 2024?

Yours faithfully,

M

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From: MMS

Dear University of Auckland,
In regard to the very last question at the bottom of my previous request
“What is the lowest UTAS gpa to have received an offer of admission in 2024?”
Could I please add the years 2021, 2022 and 2023 to my request

Yours faithfully,

MMS

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From: Landon Watt
University of Auckland

Attachment 02.2 2024 FMHS Programme Limits Clinical Prog approval by email.pdf
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Dear requester,

 

I refer to your email of 2 July 2024. The University's response follows.

 

The University's Policy and Procedures for Undergraduate Targeted
Admissions Schemes are available here:
[1]https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/about-us/a....
More specific information about the 2023 MBChB admissions process,
including UTAS admissions, is available in the 2023 Programme Limitations
for the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences (attached). See also an
explanation of the University's process provided for a previous OIA
response:
[2]https://fyi.org.nz/request/25809-mbchb-r...

 

If you have any further questions about MBChB admissions at the University
of Auckland after reading the above documents, you can direct these to
[3][email address] for a response outside the formal OIA
process. The OIA allows eligible persons to request specified official
information held by the University, it does not require agencies to create
explanations about matters of interest to the requester. The part of your
email of 2 July 2024 which does fall under section 12 of the OIA is the
following:

 

"What is the lowest UTAS gpa to have received an offer of admission in
2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021?"

 

This information was provided in the University's responses published at
"[4]https://fyi.org.nz/request/26274-mbchb-2...
and
[5]https://fyi.org.nz/request/25135-mbchb-e....
Information about the lowest GPA for a successful UTAS applicant - an
applicant who received an offer of admission - for the MBChB Part II
commencing in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 is withheld for the Students with
Disabilities, Low Socio-Economic Background, and Refugee Background UTAS
categories under section 9(2)(a) of the OIA, as this information relates
to a small number of persons and it is necessary to withhold information
about their results to protect their privacy. The lowest GPA for a
successful applicant under the Maori and Pacific Admission Scheme for the
MBChB Part II programme commencing in the requested years was as follows:
2024 - 4.0; 2023 – 3.9; 2022 – 4.5; 2021 – 3.95.

 

You have the right to make a complaint to an Ombudsman if you are
dissatisfied with this response.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Landon Watt
Legal Advisor
Office of the Vice-Chancellor

Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland  

 

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