Mid winter - a busy period particularly for graduate and international medical degree applicants.
/UCAT
July is UCAT month with testing being undertaken throughout this period.
July offers
Deakin issue Round 1 international offers in the week commencing 27th July.
End July deadlines
There are a range of deadlines occurring at the end of July - and these include Indigenous and international application closures.
The University of Sydney closed their international applications on the 23rd July with related supporting documentation needing to be provided by 29th.
If you are applying to Monash as a rural applicant, you now have until the 31st July (extended from 24th July) to submit your application for either the Dean’s Rural list or for graduate entry. Monash close graduate entry applications for international applicants on 31st July.
Indigenous applicants for Deakin have until the 31st July to submit their applications.
If you are applying for Flinders graduate medicine, you have until 11.59pm ACST on 31st July to submit you academic transcripts. This same date applies if you are working to complete a 1 year Bachelor degree in order to be eligible for graduate entry.
End July interviews
Monash conduct interviews for Singapore, Malaysia and other areas in Asia for international undergraduate and international graduate entry applicants on 28th - 30th July. They also interview international Foundation Year students who are completing in June for undergraduate medicine entry during this period.
August interviews
Monash interview North American (including Canadian) applicants for both graduate and undergraduate medicine entry during August. Deakin by August have progressed to late round graduate applicant interviews and these interviews continue until November.
The University of Melbourne and Flinders advise applicants of interview offers in mid August - the University of Melbourne’s offers are for international students. Information provided by Flinders is slightly inconsistent in terms of whether these offer dates extend or not through to late August.
By the 28th August Monash have progressed to issue invitations to interview to domestic graduate entry applicants.
August offers
ANU’s Admissions, Scholarship and Accommodation scheme issues conditional offers to domestic undergraduates on the 10th August (i.e. if you are wanting to apply for an undergraduate degree at ANU prior to progressing to apply for ANU postgraduate medicine).
You have to wait until late August to receive an offer if you are an international student applying for UWA undergraduate medicine. By 25th August USYD are making first round offers to domestic applicants for their postgraduate medicine program.
August deadlines
There are a range of deadlines all relating to postgraduate medicine programs in August. These include:
2nd Aug - UQ close their Indigenous applications
3rd August - Bond close applications for their Doctor of Physiotherapy (which is a pathway to the medicine program). International applicants for the University of Melbourne have until this date to submit MCAT scores
14th August - Indigenous applicants for Wollongong have until this date to submit their paperwork
21st August - Griffith close their applications
The only undergraduate medicine program deadline in August is James Cook’s deadline of the 31st. You need to have submitted your written application by this date and James Cook should have also received your Prediction of Academic Achievement Sheet.
ISAT/GAMSAT
If you are an international student wanting to apply to Monash for undergraduate medicine, or you are from Malaysia, Singapore or other areas of Asia and are wanting to apply for undergraduate entry, you have until 23rd August to sit ISAT. This date also applies if you are Australian based or are doing the Monash Foundation Year as an offshore applicant and are completing in December.
If you are wanting to sit GAMSAT between 28th September and 11th October, you have until 17th August to complete your registration or have until the 28th August to complete late registration.
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