As recently as yesterday! Should know about monash interviews later this month, and 7 more weeks to finish high school! Hooray!  Anyone else doing an on shore aussie pre-uni program? Good luck for finals!

hmm.....that makes 5 offers so far that i know....

Thanks for correcting the gross error! 

So it seems Singaporeans make up a big percentage of the international students, generally. Did UTas keep internationals to around 20 this year, as well?

Last year's intake has about 30 to 40  students from MUFY and quite a number are JPA sponsored.

Where does the majority come from? STPM should be just a handful; A levels, SAM, Ausmat etc? I know a few who are from A levels and did not manage to secure places in UK.( a guy in the current cohort turned down Bristol medical school unconditional offer.)

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Added on February 22, 2012, 2:50 pm

It is not so much of a drop in standards, the syallbus is the same and they sit for the same exams and markings are moderated. (Its the same for law and accountancy exams; for those Malaysian students who sit for the same exams as their UK counterparts, there should not be much difference and you would actually see Malaysian students among the price winners on a regular basis! We treat exams more seriously than most others.) Its the unfortunate thing for these borderline cases who will have problems even getting past Year 1!

If you read brigthsparks forum, you will fast conclude that NUS remains their first preference, unless it's Oxbridge. So yeap, save for Oxbridge, the rest are also NUS rejects. Kiasu nation looks at rankings, and when demand numbers become smaller, they will kiasu-select.

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Added on February 22, 2012, 7:39 pm

Yes, I noticed the NS boys will normally apply for a deferral, and some unis do not allow that. So how many malaysians among the 19? I think it's a good sized cohort, just about 119/120 total, including the domestics right?

Possible for senior doctors not to be too abusive to their juniors since its not overload n overworked. No doubt, quality has dropped but changes are necessary to at least to reduce the effect.

I don't know whether it's true that trainee doctors fearful of the wrong diagnosis n treatment n the resulting consequences can sometimes drive them nuts. A young graduate doing his housemanship in NZ called the mother on a regular basis crying n trembling in the first 6 months putting more stress on the parents over here with them scrambling for remedies including spiritual advice.