What to do if you received an SRS offer

If you're in Year 12 and you applied for undergraduate study through the Schools Recommendation Scheme (SRS), you may have received an offer on 12 November.

If you didn't receive an SRS offer, don't worry: your course preferences will be considered again in the main offer round for Year 12 students on 23 December, after ATARs are released.

The offer process differs for domestic and international Year 12 SRS applicants. Here's what you need to know.

Domestic Year 12 SRS applicants 

Unconditional SRS offers

If you received an unconditional offer, congratulations! Go ahead and accept it. If you want to stay in the running for another offer in subsequent rounds, move the course you’ve been offered down to the bottom of your list of course preferences or remove it entirely. (As long as you have accepted the offer, you can’t lose it.)

If you receive an offer in one round and accept it, and then receive an offer in a later round, you can choose either to:

• keep your previous offer and not accept your new offer, or
• accept your new offer and withdraw from the course you've already accepted.

It's important to withdraw officially from the course you no longer want to pursue. Contact the admissions office of the relevant university. This will ensure you don't incur any unnecessary HECS debt or tuition fees.

Changing preferences after you receive an offer

Conditional SRS offers

If you receive a conditional offer, you still need to meet additional criteria before the institution will make you an unconditional offer in December Round 2 (on 23 December). The institution will tell you what these are in the conditional offer email you received on 12 November.

You might have received more than one conditional offer on 12 November, but only one of them can become an unconditional offer in December Round 2. In this offer round, like in all rounds, you’ll receive an offer to the course that is highest in your list of preferences and for which you are eligible and competitive enough. So make sure you have the course you most want to study at the top of your list of preferences, even if you haven't received a conditional offer to it.

International Year 12 SRS applicants

You might have received one or more unconditional offers on 12 November. If you did, congratulations – choose the offer you want to accept and follow the university's instructions to secure your place. Check our guide to receiving offers as an international student.

Didn't receive an offer? While 12 November is the only SRS offer round for international applicants, your course preferences will be considered again in later standard offer rounds. You can update your preferences up until 11.59pm 18 December for unconditional ATAR-based offers released on the 23 December.