r/UCATANZ

For domestic students, it's very hard to get into any med school in Australia. I heard stories where top percentiles ucat and atar getting rejected. But I heard it's easier if ur an international student, because unis like their tuition fees to support the locals.

I was wondering if this is true, and whether local students discriminate against international students. Cos if I imagine I was a local student, I would feel mad that international students don't deserve it and paid their way in even if that's not necessarily true.

For context I am an international applicant applying for med and is worried abt this situation happening if i manage to get in one

Hey guys as title says, what are the typical cutoffs for rural applicants to be offered an interview for these unis? All I know is JMP tends to be a bit lower and that WSU has a slightly different weighting on some sections

Do i have a chance at med/dental in aus? I am an international student and my expected IB score is 42. And what ucat score would i need?
I am trying to apply to med dent with UCAT only
EC: lots of clinical exposure, some volunteering

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I’m an AUS student and my UCAT is in 67 days, and I’m starting to worry it might be too late to properly improve.

I’m not starting from scratch — I’m familiar with all the question types and I’ve been doing a tiny bit of practice (like ~5 mins every couple of days) over the past 6 months. But it’s been really inconsistent, and honestly my score hasn’t improved at all — I’m stuck around 1540 in mocks.

So I guess I’m wondering:

• Do I still have enough time to turn things around?
• Is it realistic to aim for a 99th percentile from here?
• And if it is doable, how should I structure the next 67 days so I can actually improve? As in how many hours of practice should I aim to do daily? And what do I do in those hours of practice? How should I review my mistakes? How often should I do a mock?