Hmm, the first statement on that link doesn't tally...
"In 2015, there were 82,034 applicants fighting for 7,424 places to study medicine in the UK with some medical schools reporting 1000 applications for 50 places.
* 6715 UK applicants were successful out of 16,653 applicants
* 183 of EU applicants were successful out of 1925 applicants
* 615 of non-EU applicants were successful out of 3066 applicants"
So if we combine applicants according to the broken out data: 16,653 1,925 3,066 = 21,644
And places: 6,715 183 615 = 7,513
Giving an overall success rate of 7,523 / 21,644 = 35%. Therefore an applicant : place failure rate of 65%.
I think the first statement is referring to *applications* not applicants. Indeed 82,034 / 21,644 = 3.78 applications per applicant, which would make sense...
So it's 65% not 80%. Still a very high number, but probably more realistic.
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