Q&A: Is it true med school admission is decided by lotteries in Netherlands?
Question by Rayzon: Is it true med school admission is decided by lotteries in Netherlands?
My friend told Netherlands has unusual admission system of medical school.
That was, med school in Netherlands is decided by lotteries.
Is Real or False?
Best answer:
Answer by Willeke
It is true but not to the extend it used to be.
It used to be that you needed to pass the exams from a certain kind of school with a set series of subjects. With that you would be admitted to the lottery for the medical school and if you were drawn out you were in, if not you were not in.
In recent years a percentage of the students is allowed in based on marks, the best of the secondary school students are allowed in, with a minimum average as additional requirement, not just the top whatever percentage.
it is done by a lottery system before the person can start the study he has to tell in his enrollment the the study direction and the his first choice university when there is no place mentioned then when the pupils name is choosen he has to study in the place given by the commission
thus the time frame is this
studies with a fix amount of students close there enrollment in february,
other studies are still open
only school pupils who have passed their exam, when a person doesnot pass his school exam he loose his right to start the specific study
Sort of. Not entirely.
If you have an average of 80% or higher on your high school grades, you can skip the lottery and be enrolled without any difficulty.
Otherwise you’ll be put in a “lottery”, but a weight is given on your grades. Thus, a student who performed bad in high school has a lower chance of winning a seat than a student with good grades.
There are simply way to many people who want to attend med school and not enough places. This is the fairest way to distribute those seats, as everybody has a chance to get a seat and it motivates people to get higher grades in high school.
yes, to some extent, when there’s too many applications, and it depends on the grades you got in VWO.
what you call “med school” is called “studying medicine at a university” , and you need a VWO-diploma to get in. We don’t put all children in the same “highschool”. After elementary school, the brightest 20% go to VWO for 6 years, the esecond brightest 20% go to HAVO, and the other 60% go to VMBO for 4 years
Yes its true.
For some studies they use a lottery system.
There are a few reasons; There are not enough places for the amount of students who want to follow the study. They don’t expect enough jobs for to many students after the study.
There are a few ways to be excepted at a study were they have a lottery,
– you get excepted directly and that depends on your education and your grading list
– Depending on your grading list they put you in a lottery pool, the higher the pool the more chance your get excepted.
– Sometimes the university is having its own rules.