Application Process

There are a number of steps that are to be completed by the dates specified in the table below to fulfil the requirements of the UNSW Medicine admissions process.
For further information on the selection process, please go to the Selection Process for RSES 2013
UNSW Medicine is currently developing an online application for the Rural Student Entry Scheme to Medicine. The online application will open on the 2nd May 2011.

Late Applications

Applicants who apply to Medicine after 30 September 2012 will not be considered for an interview.

Categories of Entry
Once you have submitted your application to Medicine online you will receive an email with a link to the category of entry preferences. You may submit your preferences by using your receipt number (received when you have completed part of or submitted your application) and your email address. To complete your preferences, please read the following information on the categories of entry BEFORE you submit your preferences.

Late exam results
Applications cannot be considered for entry in 2013 if exam results are not made available to UAC by Friday January 4, 2013. The reason for the need for this deadline is to allow Main Round offers to be finalised and also to determine interstate interviewees for the late January round of interviews. It is usually the case that the only students adversely affected by this deadline for results are university students with unresolved exam results.

Note: The number of applicants interviewed in January is substantially less than in the main round of interviews in November.

Please ensure that you include in your application form an email address that DOES not expire in 2013, please DO NOT include a school email address

Special information for non-New South Wales applicants

Applicants who live outside of New South Wales are usually not interviewed until late January. The primary reason for this arrangement is to save most non-New South Wales applicants from the very significant time and expense of travelling interstate for an interview. The background and details of how the process of late interviews works are explained below.

Since implementing an interview as part of the selection process, UNSW Medicine's experience is that the preference for almost all interstate applicants is to enter a medical school in their home state. Most applicants apply to UNSW Medicine just in case they are not offered a place in a medical school closer to home. As a result, fewer than 5% of interstate applicants who attend an interview eventually enrol in our course.

The process we have developed allows an interstate applicant to have the opportunity to have UNSW Medicine as a preference, and yet not be required to attend an interview at UNSW unless they do not obtain a place in their home state medical school. This process means that almost all interstate applicants will be saved from attending an interview at UNSW Medicine.

The process works as follows:

1. Applicants are selected for the main round (late November) and late round (early January) for interviews at UNSW. Interstate applicants are selected along with all other applicants, but are not scheduled for either of these rounds of interviews. If you would like to attend an interview in November or early January as you are not available in late January or UNSW medicine is your first preference in Australia, please contact the Rural Clinical School

2. The outcome of the first round of offers for places in interstate medical schools will be known about January 18, 2013.

3. For those applicants who were selected for an interview at UNSW in either the main or second round of interviews and have not been offered a place in a more preferred medical school, they will be offered an interview at UNSW in late January.

4. Applicants interviewed in late January will be subject to exactly the same interview and process as those interviewed in the earlier rounds.

5. If the results of their interview, together with their academic, rural rating and UMAT results, exceed the cut-off that was required for entry into UNSW Medicine in the main round of offers, they will be offered a place in the UNSW Medicine course in the late round of offers. (UNSW Medicine puts places aside for these late round offers.)

6. It must be stressed that applicants interviewed in late January will not be disadvantaged in any way in this process.