Now that you know how to change preferences, the hardest thing is deciding if you should change your preferences or not, particularly if you just missed out on last years UAI cut-off. Let’s talk about that for a little bit, there a few things that you might like to know
Howdie doodie, how are you? Hope all is good, its holidays, so it must be! One thing that I have had a lot of questions about is changing preferences for consideration in the Main Round offers. Lots of people have been asking if they should remove preferences from their application if they have missed out on the cut off. This is a really tricky thing to do, and it depends on your UAI and what other options you want to do.
Firstly, if say you want to do Law (which was 99.60 last year) and you got 85.55, there is a very slim chance that you will be offered the course, so it may be in your best interests to take that out as a preference and place something in that might be more accessible. On the other hand, if you want to do something like Arts and you got 82.85 (when the cut off is 83.00) then you should probably keep the preference there on your list. The reason is that UAI’s change each year, so there is a possibility that it may go up or down. So if you are close it would be wise to keep that as a preference. It is the same for any other course that you are close to, so it always better to leave it if your really keen to do the course, it could all come up well.
The decision is really up to you, and it really depends on the gap between your UAI and what the cut-offs have been in previous years. If you are really close you might want to have a look at the flexible entry programs offered by some faculties, its at http://www.info.usyd.edu.au/dontpanic/flexible.shtml Its a really good program if your quite close to the cut off, so check that out.
The other thing to consider is that the University will not frown on you for which rank you put your preferences. Obviously the UAC will look at your top preference and go down from there, so if you really want to do a course but it’s your 4 preference, it might be a good idea to put it higher. So don’t worry that we won’t accept you if you don’t have Sydney as all nine of your preferences, it doesn’t work like that at all!
Well hope this has helped a bit, put a comment down if it has or if it hasn’t, or if you have read it, yeah, put a comment down either way.
Stay Tops,
Brendon
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Thanks Brendon...that helped me quite a bit!!
I was wondering, if you accept an offer in the 1st main round, are you offered another in the final rounds if there are lots of places on offer for another course?
Just curious, thanks!
Posted by: Natalie | January 3, 2006 08:21 AM
Hey Nat, Im glad that helped you out a little! Yeah, you can be offered a place in the late rounds but you will most likely need to change your preferences. Say you got your 4th preference of Arts at Sydney, but the UAI is lower then expected for another course that you want, you can change your preferences for the 2nd round, place it higher on your preferences, then see how you go in the late round. The reason there are offers in the late round is if there are vacancies as a result of students not accepting their places, or if the course was not filled in the first round. In that respect, there might be lots of spots, or none, so thats why you should accept your offer in the main round just in case. Thanks again for the questions, it was well tops. Tata
Posted by: Brendon | January 3, 2006 09:24 AM
Hi there Brendon,
My questions refers to the changing of preferences between the main round and late round offers. If i have CSP and DFEE preferences but would prefer to wait till late round to add the DFEE courses....do you think this is a good idea? DOes it give me any advantages or not?
Posted by: Gemma Brown | January 4, 2006 06:14 PM
Im currently in Qld and have applied for a place at Griffith University in Brisbane. My circumstances have changed and i was wondering if it were at all possible (assuming i get an offer) to transfer to another state?
Posted by: Rob Letkiewicz | October 12, 2006 01:02 PM