MRBS Offers
The general scheme of offers that you can receive for medical school includes: MRBS, Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP) and Bonded Medical Place (BMP). Most Australian medical schools ask you which offer type you would be willing to accept before they give out offers. They then rank the applicants and offer the MRBS places to the highest ranked applicants, who said they would be likely to accept the offer. These applicants then can choose to accept or reject the offer. If they accept (which generally occurs only after they have read and signed the contract) they enter the MRBS scheme. If the applicant rejects the MRBS offer at this point; the medical school then offers the MRBS place to the next student on the their list and this applicant is offered a CSP place instead. Each medical school is required to offer a certain number of MRBS places and so will continue to approach students until these have all been accepted. In most medical schools the BMP offers are given to lower half of the ranked applicants.
In some medical schools the CSP offers are given to the higher ranked students, then MRBS and finally BMP.
Once the applicant has signed the contract, their place at the medical school is tied to the MRBS scheme. Which means they can't decide to change their place from MRBS to CSP/BMP.
Note, this description of medical school offers has deliberately excluded full-fee and international places for simplicity.
Read more about this topic: Medical Rural Bonded Scholarship Scheme
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