? Need Help Please ? (1 Viewer)

[abhyash]

UAI:- 47.60

ok thats the UAI i got. i am a bit depressed but thankfully my sister who got 98.75 2 years ago told me there is always hope. The thing is, im trying to get into a computing/multimedia course in a UNI in melbourne. so i asked my careers teacher about my possibilities and she gave me 2 options.

1) For VTAC put some preferences for computing courses that are between 50-60 and hope that i get picked into one if they need people to fill up the classes. I also heard that i would get 5 extra UAI points for coming from a rural area (riverina region) in some unis. i need to find out which unis in melb allow that. She said that if the courses are desperate to have people to fill the classes, they will allow people with a few points off (anything between 5-11) .
And also i did french beginners and at the start of the year my teacher told me that they would scale my french marks up (i got 79/100).

2) Enroll in TAFE (need 35 UAI to get into the info tech course) and do it for 1-2 years and then get into uni. (not certain how easy it is tho).

Please guys gimme some information on the stuff i talked about above. i dont wanna end up as an onion farmer!

 

[Gummy_bear]

CSU gives you 5 extra marks if you are from the Riverina

Could you provide a link to some information on the areas that are given these points and what uni's give them out? only if you have some on hand.

 

[abhyash]

heyy help me out first, i probably got the lowest in BOS

 

[7th Sign]

heyy help me out first, i probably got the lowest in BOS

dont worry I know a few people who got 30s, 40s

uai's suck

 

[abhyash]

from griffith,
wade high school :S

i think im going to go ask my careers teacher on monday about the info. but still more help will be needed!

 

[abhyash]

i'll try mrs barker on monday..

btw do u guys know anyone who went to TAFE for 1-2 years and then went on to do university??

 

[abhyash]

sweet thanks! you are giving me high hopes

 

[Danoz The Great]

i dont wanna end up as an onion farmer!

Awww, I'm sure you won't
I was going to suggest all that Without Wings has, my cousin went by a similar method after her getting UAI (of 33) two years ago.

edit: She went on to do B Business/B Law and she's going really well!

 

[abhyash]

w0000 getting happier and happier! i just put down 3-4 uni course preferences (even though i might not get in) and 3 TAFE courses preference at the bottom. hopefully i might get a certificate IV or a diploma and transfer to RMIT university. wish me luck!

 

[jack white]

My friend got a "below fifty" UAI (as she calls it), and went to tafe, and is now at Newcastle doing her teaching degree. She is a champ.

I wish you heaps of luck. And remember, you can always wait a couple of years and then go to Uni as a mature-age student. They will take experience not your UAI into account.