Elite Athlete and Performer Scheme
How the Elite Athlete and Performer Scheme works
Elite Athlete and Performer Scheme applications are open. You can apply for EAPS from your completed undergraduate application.
This scheme applies to semester 1, 2026 undergraduate offers only. UAC is continuing to work with institutions to finalise their participation in the scheme. Applicants may be considered for adjustment factors or other admission considerations as institutions come on board.
If you are an elite athlete or performer and your training, rehearsals, or competitive commitments have significantly affected your Year 12 studies, UAC’s Elite Athlete and Performer Scheme (EAPS) provides a pathway where institutions can consider both your academic and elite achievements. Through this scheme, you may receive adjustment factors (points) to enhance your selection rank when applying for eligible courses at participating institutions.
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If you are eligible for consideration under the EAPS and your ATAR (or equivalent) is below the required selection rank for a course, an institution may increase your selection rank for that course or provide additional support.
Each institution has its own policy on when and how it increases selection ranks for eligible applicants. Providing documentation is not guaranteed to increase your selection rank.
Being eligible for EAPS consideration doesn’t guarantee you an offer to a course; you still need to meet any published lowest selection rank for that course and compete with all other applicants for a place. If you successfully compete against other applicants, you will receive an offer as part of the standard undergraduate offer rounds.
Participating institutions may use Elite Athlete and Performer Scheme assessments to increase an applicant’s selection rank.
These selection rank adjustments do not change your ATAR. Instead, they change your selection rank for a particular course. As the adjustment factor schemes for each institution, and often for each course at the same institution, are different, your selection rank can be different for each course you list in your course preferences.
Unlike subject or location adjustment factor schemes, UAC cannot tell you by how many points your selection will be increased.
Example
Course A has six applicants and only three places available. The six applicants have the following selection ranks:
| Applicant | Selection rank |
|---|---|
| 1 | 89.00 (ATAR of 89.00) |
| 2 | 88.00 (ATAR of 87.00 plus adjustment of 1 point) |
| 3 | 87.00 (ATAR of 83.00 plus adjustment of 4 points) |
| 4 | 86.00 (ATAR of 86.00) |
| 5 | 85.00 (ATAR of 83.00 plus adjustment of 2 points) |
| 6 | 84.00 (ATAR of 84.00) |
Offers will be made to applicants 1, 2 and 3. Applicant 4 won’t receive an offer, even with an ATAR higher than applicant 3, and applicant 3 will receive an offer even though their ATAR is below the lowest selection rank. The lowest selection rank required to receive an offer to Course A will be 87.00.