The selection process
How do institutions select applicants?
You can choose up to nine course preferences.Your course preferences are considered in the order you have listed them on your application. If there is no place available in the course listed as your first preference, your second preference will be considered and so on until an offer can be made or you have no more preferences.
For information about choosing your courses and course preferences read:
Different courses select applicants in different ways
To be offered a place in a course, all applicants must meet the admission requirements outlined in Australian and New Zealand secondary studies, Australian tertiary studies, overseas qualifications and alternative entry before they are eligible to be considered for a course.
For most courses, you will be selected mainly on your academic qualifications.
For example, 2009 Year 12 applicants may be selected on the basis of their Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) or equivalent.
For 2009 non-Year 12 applicants, the ATAR or equivalent alone is generally not applicable. Most institutions take into account one or more of the following when considering your application:
- secondary studies
- postsecondary studies
- tertiary studies and
- other relevant factors such as employment experience and special circumstances.
Some courses select applicants on the basis of additional selection criteria such as a personal statement, questionnaire, portfolio of work, interview or test. Other courses may use a combination of both academic qualifications and additional selection criteria.
Additional selection criteria can be found in the course descriptions available through the course search.
Does UAC or the institution decide who is made an offer to a course?
The institutions decide who they will make offers to. UAC does not select applicants, and doesn’t have the power to persuade institutions to make a particular offer or question decisions made by institutions.
