confusion over mainround offers? (1 Viewer)

[RishBonjour]

If you get an offer for your first preference in the main round, will you be automatically rejected for all your other 8 preferences?
Or do you get offers from all 9 courses you selected (considering your atar satisfies them) and you select the one you like?

 

[will_]

the first part is correct

 

[Trans4M]

Well you don't exactly get rejected. They just don't even bother looking at it is the correct way to say it haha

 

[RishBonjour]

Well you don't exactly get rejected. They just don't even bother looking at it is the correct way to say it haha

haha thanks man, much nicer way to say it too

 

[J18134]

So ill explain this through an example. Lets say your ATAR is 96. and your preferences are as such

1. Combined Law at USYD (99.7)
2. Combined Law at UNSW (99.65)
3. Bachelor of Science Advanced at USYD (95)
4. Bachelor of Arts at UNSW (78)
5. Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Science at USYD (70.05)

UAC would send your ATAR and subjects with your student number to USYD Law Faculty and ask them if they want you. They would say they dont
UAC then sends those same details to the UNSW Law faculty and ask them if they want you. They say they dont.
UAC then sends the same details to the Science faculty at USYD and ask them if them if they want you for that degree. They say you do.

You then get the offer for Science Advanced at USYD and the process stops going.

 

[saaamui]

Would you get disadvantaged though for putting it third? Such that if another person has an ATAR of 95 and puts Bachelor of Science Advanced at USYD (95) first, this person makes it in then the course becomes full. Thus by the time UAC sends your 3rd preference in, do you still get a spot even though it's full although you have a higher ATAR than the other person? ... if this makes sense.

 

[OMGITzJustin]

Would you get disadvantaged though for putting it third? Such that if another person has an ATAR of 95 and puts Bachelor of Science Advanced at USYD (95) first, this person makes it in then the course becomes full. Thus by the time UAC sends your 3rd preference in, do you still get a spot even though it's full although you have a higher ATAR than the other person? ... if this makes sense.

That's why you research cut-offs and make your preferences accordingly I guess lol, it was just an example to show how the process works IF your first pref was chosen/not chosen

 

[Trans4M]

If that's the case cut off would a) be higher or b) they let that one last person in.

 

[Cheesecake_a]

But you need to consider bonus points too.

 

[LoveHateSchool]

Would you get disadvantaged though for putting it third? Such that if another person has an ATAR of 95 and puts Bachelor of Science Advanced at USYD (95) first, this person makes it in then the course becomes full. Thus by the time UAC sends your 3rd preference in, do you still get a spot even though it's full although you have a higher ATAR than the other person? ... if this makes sense.

No, it's not prejudiced whether it's your third or ninth preference. If it's the first one that you are eligible to get into, you will get an offer into it.

 

[uac.aplcnt]

preferences can be reconsidered even afeter yu get an offer...if you RE-change your preference between rounds