underthebridge said:
Ah Ok thanks. Do they take academic achievement into much consideration, I imagine they would since they ask you to include your reports, i'm just wondering how much.
I've also heard that your uni preferences may be taken into consideration, although this is perhaps just a rumour considering that apparently they don't look at your preferences. I'm just concerned that having macquarie as a number one preference will lessen my chances of getting co-op. (although at this stage i'll probly have unsw as number one anyway).
Since you are an accounting co-op, u are elligble to become a chartered accountant right? Since i think you're required to do a cadetship or such to become a CA, so a co-operative scholarship would be as good as doing (if not better than) a cadetship in accounting. (I'm willing to accept either finance, accounting or actuarial co-op, however actuarial is first pref, finance second)
Yeah, they do consider academic acheivement, but as long as they think you'll get over 95 there is not much of an issue. So there's not much difference between someone who gets 99 and someone who gets 96.
I'm not sure of whether they take your preferences into consideration, but even if they do, preferences are meaningless since you can change them after you get your results.
Accounting Co-ops no longer need to do CA or CPA accredited courses (so long as you complete the Accounting major there's no problem). However, all of us do it because it provides us with the professional accreditation.
Co-op is similar to a cadetship, but you get to go to three different companies and experience completely different areas. Sponsoring my year, there are three consumer goods companies (Arnott's, Canon, Coke), three financial services companies (Promina, Zurich, Westpac), three accounting firms (Deloitte, KPMG, PwC), three spots sponsored by Telstra (Retail Services, Corporate Office, Payphones) and a place with the NSW Treasury. Nobody works in the same industry twice (because then you don't get the benefit of diff experiences) and the work is always interesting.
If you are really keen on Commere, then UNSW is probably the best place to go. They got the best school for Banking and Finance, Economics (ANU is also good) and Accounting (by far). If you're really keen on actuary, then Macq is pretty good because the reputation is good. But it not really a massive difference between us and Macq. in actuary.