"Monash Does Not Accept International Students ..."

"WHAT?"

Is that your first reaction?

Michelle told me that, and although it wasn't such a shock to me because both my cousin and I got rejected already without even looking at our ISAT scores, despite the both of us having straight As and all. Nevertheless, I still think it's pretty outrageous how they actually implemented it without a notice or anything! I mean, come on! Even University of Melbourne gave some sort of notice when they were going to implement their postgraduate medicine program and abolish their undergraduate counterpart! Could you have at least told me that in advanced instead of eating up my A$100 and then tell me that I'm rejected only for me to find out that the only reason why is because you are no longer accepting international students a few weeks later through a classmate who so coincidentally went to the IDP Australian University Fair which I have been TWICE this year and was reluctant to go for this one despite being spammed TWICE by some idiot who just doesn't get the idea that I would go if I wanted to, so just stop wasting your credit just because your company is reimbursing you, and yet, not heard or told of such crap? *Takes in a deep breath* Thank you so much, Monash! When I get into Edinburgh, I'm so going to send you postcards of the castles and beautiful scenes there and make sure they make it to the dean of medicine!

It's discrimination but what can I do? I'm quite sure I can beat a whole bunch of Australians into being better doctors, both academically and in practice in the future. So to the superbly hopeful Malaysians who dream of applying for Monash just because it offers it's 5 year program and missed the UK applications for any reason under the sun, here's a piece of advice: Stop wasting your time on a university that doesn't appreciate good students and start looking for better ones.


-hwg-