Medicine at University of Melbourne: A high ATAR is that all?

[geek123456]

Besides a high ATAR, what else do I need ,to get into University of Melbourne for Medicine?
P.s by anything else i mean extracurricular and that kind of stuff!

[zhen]

I thought that medicine at Melbourne University was only postgrad, so they don't care about your atar, instead they care about university grades and GAMSAT. I think that the only undergraduate medicine course in Victoria is in Monash and even then you can't get in with just your atar. With monash you have to get a high atar, umat and a good interview to get in. I've heard that to get an interview for monash medicine, you'd ideally want a 99+ atar and a 90+ umat. Someone should correct me if I'm wrong, since I'm not very knowledgable in these types of things.

[cookiedream]

For Melbourne Uni, there's the provisional (guaranteed) pathway as well. After 2 years of Biomedicine, you need to do an interview and if you do well in the interview you pretty much have a place for their Doctor of Medicine. No GAMSAT required.
But....you need an ATAR of at least 99.90.

[Quantum44]

Besides a high ATAR, what else do I need ,to get into University of Melbourne for Medicine?
P.s by anything else i mean extracurricular and that kind of stuff!

You don't actually need a high ATAR to get into medicine, you can get in through science, which only requires an ATAR of 85. That being said, if you get a high ATAR it generally means you are smarter and more hard working, and hence more likely to get into postgrad med at Melbourne.

The general pathway into medicine is:

Biomed --> high GPA --> high GAMSAT score --> do well in interview --> you're in

Bearing in mind of course, that you can only get in after you have completed an undergraduate course of at least 3 years and have done the prerequisite subjects.

As for extra-curricular subjects, they are not actually required (I'm not sure if you have to submit a CV) but may help you in the interview.

Now I don't claim to be an expert but I have talked to several 3rd year Biomed students at UoM.

As cookiedream said there is a very sought after guaranteed pathway for students who receive an ATAR of 99.90+

[vox nihili]

You don't actually need a high ATAR to get into medicine, you can get in through science, which only requires an ATAR of 85. That being said, if you get a high ATAR it generally means you are smarter and more hard working, and hence more likely to get into postgrad med at Melbourne.

The general pathway into medicine is:

Biomed --> high GPA --> high GAMSAT score --> do well in interview --> you're in

Bearing in mind of course, that you can only get in after you have completed an undergraduate course of at least 3 years and have done the prerequisite subjects.

As for extra-curricular subjects, they are not actually required (I'm not sure if you have to submit a CV) but may help you in the interview.

Now I don't claim to be an expert but I have talked to several 3rd year Biomed students at UoM.

As cookiedream said there is a very sought after guaranteed pathway for students who receive an ATAR of 99.90+

You can get into medicine through anything. There are certainly med students who scored less than an 85 ATAR. Indeed, the'res someone in our course who didn't have an ATAR at all...she went to TAFE first.