Western Australia Medical School

[poppj]

Does anyone have experience with applying to the medical program at Western Australia, Perth? I am currently finishing a post-bac program and taking the mcat in August. I'm a US citizen, with an Australian boyfriend...and so..thinking about this school in Perth!! At this point, I am just curious about the school and would love to hear any thoughts.

Cheers.

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[dasha55]

Hi there. I ve applied to UWA this year for the February semester. They ve asked me to write an ISAT test, testing analytical abd reasoning skills. The test was difficult but not impossible!....and a bit too long for 3 hrs. I did all question but I screwed up on timing, so I bubbled in only half the answers; got my results- which are apparently decent but obviously not top! I ve contacted the school, and they said they will take the students with the top scores only! So there...hope it helps

 

[poppj]

[wishing good luck! Do you know what the GPA / MCAT admission requirements are ? Did you also look into University of Notre Dame? ..ahh..and what is the ISAT exam?

cheers

 

[pitman]

http://www.acer.edu.au/tests/university/isat/intro.html

 

[Cziffra]

hi dasha55,

did they say what kind of ISAT results are considered top scores? like 100%tile???? how did you do on it? thanks!!!!

 

[pitman]

Keep in mind that WA is new at the int'l grad med game, so they'll most likely be taking the top students, within reason whatever they score. In other words, I doubt they even know what their final cutoff will be until they make the final decisions.

Another line of reasoning might suggest that they'd do what Cornell does with Qatar -- accept only students who approach normal qualifications for Cornell NYC (thus restricting intake numbers). However, Aussie schools only do this to a minor extent (WA could be different, but there's no reason to believe so -- the others all have a low exam score cutoff for interviews, then take the top candidates after all criteria are in).

Anyhow, I have no first-hand knowledge and am only making an educated guess based off of what I do know

 

[dasha55]

hi dasha55,

did they say what kind of ISAT results are considered top scores? like 100%tile???? how did you do on it? thanks!!!!

Hi there! I think I got smth like 155 out of 200, considering I ve bubbled in only 43 questions out of 100. Don't know how that works to 155/200, but the minimum is around 180.
Hope it helps

 

[Cziffra]

hi dasha,

oh, 180 is high....most probably translates to mid to high 90th percentile...

don't we need gamsat?