FOI_25-124 MBBS Medicine A100 admissions 2024-25 academic year
Date of response: 19 May 2025
We have now considered your request of 18 April 2025 for the following information:
I am reaching out to kindly request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, regarding the admissions process for the A100 Medical program at University of East Anglia.
If possible, I would be grateful if you could provide data for the 2024/2025 admissions cycle, broken down and stratified into the following applicant groups:
• All applicants
• Home undergraduate applicants
• Home graduate applicants
• Widening participation/contextual applicants
• International applicants
For each of these groups, I would appreciate if you could share the following details:
Question 1) General Admissions Statistics
• Total number of places available
• Total number of applicants
• Number of applicants invited to interview
• Number of offers made
• Number of deferrals taken
Question 2) UCAT Statistics for All Applicants
• Lowest UCAT Score
• Highest UCAT Score
• Mean UCAT Score
• Median UCAT Score
Question 3) UCAT Statistics for Applicants Invited to Interview
• Lowest UCAT Score
• Highest UCAT Score
• Mean UCAT Score
• Median UCAT Score
Question 4) UCAT Statistics for Applicants Given an Offer (Non-Contextual)
• Lowest UCAT Score
• Highest UCAT Score
• Mean UCAT Score
• Median UCAT Score
Question 5) UCAT Statistics for Applicants Given an Offer (Contextual)
• Lowest UCAT Score
• Highest UCAT Score
• Mean UCAT Score
• Median UCAT Score
Question 6) Academic Profile – GCSEs and A-Levels
• Average number of GCSEs
• Average number of Grade 8/9 or A* at GCSEs
• Average number of A-Levels
• Average number of A* (Predicted) at A-Levels
If it is possible to provide this information in a structured format, such as an Excel spreadsheet preferably, that would also be greatly appreciated.
Our response:
As requested, please see accompanying document, our ref: FOI_25-124 Appendix A.
Information not held - s.1(1)(a), Freedom of Information Act
On this occasion it is not possible to provide all of the requested information. In line with your rights under section 1(1)(a) of the Act to be informed whether information is held, we confirm that the University does not hold any of the requested information for widening participation applicants. Widening Participation information is not held by the University, we do not make contextual offers and applicants are not categorised as contextual or as meeting any criteria under ‘widening participation’.