How Uni selects undegraduates into courses... (1 Viewer)

[FinalFantasy]

Is this how uni's select people?
for a course, dey select the person w\ highest UAI, from highest to lowest.... who applied for it as first preference..
and after all the first preferences dey look into the people who have that course as second preference and get the person w\ highest UAI and so on?
So if someone w\ UAI of 95 applied for a certain course as first preference, and a person w\ 99 UAI applied for the same course but with it as second preference... the person w\ 95 UAI will be chosen first?

I hope im not confusing lol..

 

[FinalFantasy]

so dey go first preference.. and den if theres spots left dey go second preferences...
but if someone in the first preference list has UAI=95, and someone in da 2nd preference list has UAI=99... would the UAI=95 be chosen first?

 

[Xayma]

No.

Assuming everyone has the pre reqs.

They take the people who got 100.00 and place them into the courses they want.
They then take the 99.95 people etc.
Go down, until a course is filled (say at 99.6) now someone with 99.55 wanted to get into that course, they then put them in their 2nd prefrence, while allocating all the other 99.55 into the courses. And the guy with his 2nd prefrence fills up another course.

Then they go down to 99.50. It wouldn't matter if the person who had 99.50 had it as 1st prefrence while the 99.55 had it as their 2nd. They place the 99.55 first, before the 99.50