Free spots can be offered to non-EU Students after the initial IMAT rankings are released. This, however, is a very rare event and students must be vigilant and act fast. First you must understand how the IMAT ranking and scrolling works for non-EU students. So if you haven’t read that article please read do so first and then return here.
Explanation via Scenario
Following from our previous article, let’s proceed to explain how this works with the same example.
Imagine you are the 12th candidate on the Non-EU IMAT Ranking List for the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. So to summarise:
- You are non-EU
- You did your pre-enrollment for the medicine in English at Tor Vergata, and when registering for the IMAT chose to pick all of the choices available in order of your preferences (even if your first choice is the most important).
On results day you find that you are the 12th person in the ranking; quite close but, unfortunately, not offered one of the possible 10 seats. You wait for subsequent rounds, but scrolling did not permit you to be offered a seat in your first choice.
Unexpectedly, however, the University of Bari announces that they have a free seat to be offered. This means that the University of Bari offered the unfilled position to every single non-EU IMAT candidate that put Bari as their first choice, but at the end of scrolling there was still one seat empty.
Each university has to first deal with their own ranking list first, and IF there are free spots available after they have exhausted their own ranking list they will release a statement offering the remaining seats to any other non-EU candidate.
Here is what the statement looked like in 2016:
Once the statement is released the only consideration for who will get the remaining spot is the candidate score. Unfortunately the choice of order is not quite considered here. There is no set time for when these statements are released and are completely down to the individual universities.
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Hi, where are those calls published?
University homepage?
Hello, each university releases them on its own site, often on its Department of Medicine page!