Schools Recommendation Schemes
Schools Recommendation Scheme offers
SRS applications closed 16 September 2024
- Finalise your SRS course preferences in your UAC application by 11.59pm on 1 November. Some institutions may specify an earlier date: institution-specific SRS requirements.
- The first SRS offers will be emailed to successful applicants on 8 November (November Round 1).
IB and interstate applicants: Still need to upload your Year 11 results? Please upload them against your Year 11 qualification in your UAC application. Year 11 report requirements
Course preference and document deadlines for pre-ATAR offer rounds
Offer round | Upload PDF documents by 11.59pm on | Finalise course preferences by 11.59pm on | Offers released at 7.30am on |
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Nov Round 1 | Thu 24 Oct 2024 |
Fri 1 Nov 2024 | Fri 8 Nov 2024 |
Nov Round 2 | Thu 31 Oct 2024 | Thu 14 Nov 2024 | Thu 21 Nov 2024 |
Dec Round 1 | Thu 7 Nov 2024 |
Thu 28 Nov 2024 | Thu 5 Dec 2024 |
The Schools Recommendation Scheme (SRS) is one way institutions make early offers of undergraduate admission to Year 12 students, using criteria other than (or in addition to) the ATAR.
You can receive:
- one unconditional offer
- one or more conditional offers.
If you receive an unconditional offer you do not need to meet any further condition/s. If you receive conditional offers, you'll need to meet additional condition/s, such as a minimum ATAR, submitting a portfolio or attending an audition. Details will be outlined in the offer email.
Institutions consider your course preferences according to the order in which you list them. All your preferences are given equal consideration.
While UAC coordinates SRS, the institutions decide who receives an offer, not UAC. We won’t contact you if you don’t receive an SRS offer.
You can only receive one unconditional offer in each round.
If you’re not selected for an unconditional offer for your first preference, you’ll be considered equally with all other eligible applicants for your second preference and so on.
Notification
Your unconditional offer will be sent to you by email. You can also access it by logging in to your UAC application for undergraduate admission and selecting ‘View correspondence’.
To accept your unconditional offer, follow the instructions set out in your offer. You must accept your offer by the date specified by the institution, otherwise you may lose your offer.
Conditional SRS offers require you to meet other condition/s before the institution will make you an unconditional offer. These condition/s may include a minimum ATAR, course prerequisites, a personal statement, a portfolio, an audition, an interview or a test. Conditional SRS offers will only be made in November Round 1 and can be made to any preference.
Notification
Your conditional offer will be sent to you by email. You can also access it by logging in to your UAC application for undergraduate admission and selecting ‘View correspondence’.
To convert your conditional offer to an unconditional offer, you must:
- meet the condition/s stipulated in the offer
- meet all other institution requirements for that course
- include the course in your list of preferences by the change of preference deadline for December Round 2.
It is possible to receive more than one conditional offer, but only one of them can become an unconditional offer in December Round 2.
If you receive more than one conditional offer, once your ATAR is released you can determine if you meet the criteria for those offers. You will then need to decide which course preference you would most like to convert into an unconditional offer.
Place the course that you would most like to convert into an unconditional offer at the top of your list of preferences by the December Round 2 change of preference deadline. By this date you will have received your ATAR, so if a minimum ATAR is one of the conditions you will know if you have met it.
Once you’ve received an unconditional offer, you can’t be made an unconditional offer to any lower course preferences in the next round unless you change your preferences.
So, to receive further offers in subsequent rounds, you first need to accept the course you’ve already been offered, then move that course down to the bottom of your list of course preferences or remove it entirely. (As long as you have accepted an offer, removing it from your list of preferences will not affect your existing offer.)
Alternatively, if you receive an unconditional offer to a lower preference, you will automatically be considered for higher preferences in the next round.
To change your preferences, log in to your UAC application and go to ‘Update course preferences’.
If you then receive an offer to a course in your new list, you can decide whether to accept it and withdraw from your original course, or not accept the new offer and keep your place in your original course.
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Application dates
01 Nov 2024
SRS: Course preference deadline for first SRS offers
Include your SRS course preferences in your UAC application by 11.59pm. First SRS offers will be released in November Round 1 on 8 November.
08 Nov 2024
SRS: First offers released
SRS unconditional and conditional offers released. Check your email or log in to your UAC undergraduate application.
23 Dec 2024
SRS: Conditional offers converted to unconditional offers
Conditional offers are converted to unconditional offers for applicants who meet institution criteria. Check your email or log in to your UAC undergraduate application.
09 Jan 2025
SRS: Conditional offers converted to unconditional offers
Conditional offers are converted to unconditional offers for applicants who meet institution criteria. Check your email or log in to your UAC undergraduate application.
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