Mid winter 2021 - a busy period particularly for graduate and international medical degree applicants.
/UCAT
July is UCAT month with testing being undertaken throughout this period and concluding on 11th August.
July offers
ANU release international and Indigenous pathway offers in late July.
End July deadlines
There are a range of deadlines occurring at the end of July - and these include Indigenous and international application closures:
Monash applications close for Canadian and North American applicants - note this applies for both undergraduate and graduate applications. Monash also close graduate entry applications at this time.
ISAT Cycle 3 testing and GAMSAT late registrations also close
University of Sydney online confirmation page to be completed.
Deakin close Doctor of Medicine applications for Indigenous applicants.
Flinders have a range of closures including the deadline for submission of official academic transcripts showing Semester 1, 2021 results; deadline for submission of official academic transcripts for 1 year Bachelor and 1 year Honours degrees; deadline for submission of supporting documents for Rural, NT and Humanitarian visa sub-quotas
August interviews
Interviews taking place in August all occur in mid-late August. These include Flinders advice to applicants of interview offers and University of Melbourne interview offers for international students. Monash interview North American (including Canadian) applicants for both graduate and undergraduate medicine entry during the latter part of August.
August offers
ANU’s Admissions, Scholarship and Accommodation scheme issues conditional offers to domestic undergraduates on the 9th August (i.e. if you are wanting to apply for an undergraduate degree at ANU prior to progressing to apply for ANU postgraduate medicine).
Monash make offers to offshore Monash University Foundation Year and Malaysia, Singapore and other areas in Asia (undergraduate entry and postgraduate entry) applicants for the Clayton campus.
By 19th August, USYD are making first round offers to domestic applicants for their postgraduate medicine program.
You have to wait until late August to receive an offer if you are an international student applying for UWA assured pathway (undergraduate) medicine.
August deadlines
There are a range of deadlines all relating to postgraduate medicine programs in August. These include:
1st Aug - UQ close their Indigenous applications
7th August - Bond close applications for their Doctor of Physiotherapy (which is a pathway to the medicine program).
13th August - Indigenous applicants for Wollongong have until this date to submit their paperwork
20th August - Monash close their applications for Dean's Rural List and Rural End-to-End Cohort
24th August - Griffith close their applications for international applicants
27th August - You need to submit you r application by this date to be considered for interviews on 30 September at the University of Queensland
end August - James Cook’s undergraduate medicine program deadline is 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 by this time. Deakin also close their Doctor of Medicine applications on this date.
ISAT
If you are an Australian based Year 12, Australian based Foundation Years or Monash University Foundation Year international student wanting to apply to Monash for undergraduate medicine, or an offshore applicant wanting to apply for undergraduate entry, or are from Malaysia completing an offshore Monash University Foundation Year, you have until 23rd August to sit ISAT.
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