Applicant first choices and posts available - update
Published: 23/01/2008
The table below shows the number of applicants who chose each foundation school below as their first choice for the 2008 Foundation Programme. The number of applicant first choices includes all applicants who submitted an application. At that time, some applicants still had to submit evidence of IELTS and right to work. If they did not submit this evidence, these candidates were withdrawn from the first round before the match to foundation school was run. Thus, the final number of eligible applicants was reduced, creating space for those who did not get their first choice foundation school to get in.
The chart is intended to show popularity and competition ratios for those who applied.
| Foundation School | Applicants | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Birmingham, Shropshire and Staffordshire FS | 266 | 352 |
| Black Country FS | 90 | 94 |
| Coventry and Warwick FS | 85 | 94 |
| East Anglian FS | 211 | 290 |
| Hereford and Worcester FS | 52 | 73 |
| Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland FS | 149 | 152 |
| Mersey FS | 234 | 293 |
| North Central Thames FS | 448 | 340 |
| North East Thames FS | 320 | 300 |
| North West Thames FS | 562 | 266 |
| North Western FS | 500 | 540 |
| North Yorkshire and East Coast FS | 78 | 171 |
| Northern FS | 298 | 392 |
| Northern Ireland FS | 242 | 234 |
| Oxford FS | 239 | 228 |
| Peninsula FS | 185 | 198 |
| Scotland FS | 801 | 766 |
| Severn FS | 309 | 287 |
| South Thames FS | 949 | 843 |
| South Yorkshire FS | 207 | 189 |
| Trent FS | 237 | 295 |
| Wales FS | 275 | 320 |
| Wessex FS | 211 | 241 |
| West Yorkshire FS | 288 | 280 |
Note: as noted in the Foundation Applicant’s Guide, applicants were matched on the basis of first choice preference first, then score. This means if an applicant did not get into their first choice foundation school; and the others they applied to were oversubscribed as well, then they would be allocated to the next foundation school on their list which had vacancies.
A number of different ways of allocating medical students to foundation schools have been modelled previously and this algorithm was found to provide the largest number of applicants with their first choice.
