Hi everyone,
I am currently a 1st year B. IT student also and firstly I'd like to say congratulations on the interview ebonylea
To clarify things for you guys a little (and perhaps ease the waiting game also, I'm sure!) the interview dates for the scholarship this year are Friday 18th November and Monday 5th December. Good luck to everyone who applied!
As for ztrask02 and JimmyK, I'd like to say that first of all I was also in that predicament last year - the formal was the night before the interviews, and the afterparty didn't quite end until 6 in the morning. Needless to say, I had absolutely no sleep whatsoever - just took a little while to make it look like I
hadn't just spent the entire night out partying (suffice to say, I take my teenage years quite seriously
), jumped in a cab to the interview, grabbed a coffee downstairs and expended entirely too much effort trying to look interested in what Chris S was saying pre-inerview (now of course, I know better
). Fast forward to post-interview, I thought I hadn't done as well as I'd liked given my after-afterparty state, confessed to it and apologized, then somehow managed to talk my way to something silly about the ninja turtles and the karate kid to the CEO of company X(!!).
Anyways, veering from the point - to make a long story short, they still somehow let me in
I met the very same CEO at the meet&greet sponsor night, approached him to thank him profusely for his (mis)judgment - but not before a hearty "You're the formal girl! Bloody brilliant, congratulations!"
That's not to say that I condone drinking copious amounts prior to scholarship interviews. Nor that by doing so, you will be more likely to get it.
However, what I do say is that I know for a fact that a couple of the other BITs selected this year were also put in that position, and did not see that as inhibiting to their being picked.
Interviews are all about your personality and character, whilst at the same time expanding on your application and demonstrating your leadership and people-person capacity essential to being a B.IT.
Also, keep in mind that although 90+ UAI is said to be criteria, it is a combination of these across the board (application, interiew AND uai) that will determine your entry into the course. I cannot stress this enough! I know plenty of BScITs who were rather bitter about BITs during the IT camp as they'd received higher UAIs than some other BITs, which goes to show that that isn't ALL that they are looking for. If they see potential in you as a BIT and you fall slightly below the cutoff line, you are still very much in with a chance.
All in all, best of luck to everyone - I hope to meet you at the interviews
