Number of applicants to number of jobs in first round 2008

[theicemaiden]

Taken from the foundation programme website for prosperity in case it disappears. First number is number of medics who put that deanery as their 1st choice, second number is the number of jobs in that deanery

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

[DamianUK]

That means 8.7% of people did not get their first choice post (632 people).

[splatman007]

Hi, I'm a penultimate year student from London. Got a question about the system...

How are the job allocations done? Is the primary criterion for a job a) preference or b) points score?

For example, say I have 70 points but don't get my first choice job, then am I given my second choice over a guy with 65 points who put that job as his first choice?

Thanks - good luck with your applications!

[Chulalongkorn]

Looks like North Yorkshire and East Coast are the most unpopular again this year. I guess Hull, S****horpe and Grimsby arn't the top of many people's ideal destination list!

[Spencer Wells]

For example, say I have 70 points but don't get my first choice job, then am I given my second choice over a guy with 65 points who put that job as his first choice?

As I understand it, the answer to your question is no, the guy who put it first choice, even with lower points, would get the job over you.

[Chulalongkorn]

I agree with Spencer Wells. Currently the rules are that if you did not get your first choice school then you would get placed in the next ranked school that has places left available after all the first choice places have been allocated.

[amy876]

regarding job allocations, it is being done in applicant score order, so the person with the highest score gets their first preference. then the next highest person gets their 1st choice as long as the highest scorer hasn't chosen it already, in which case they get their 2nd choice. so if u have 70 points you will get your highest ranked job still available over someone with 65 points no matter how much higher they've ranked it.

[amy876]

any idea why East Anglian FS was so unpopular this year?

[Chulalongkorn]

any idea why East Anglian FS was so unpopular this year?

because it's in East Anglia?

[amy876]

but isnt it associated with the cambridge medical school, which i would have thought would have made it more popular like the oxford fs.