Plebeian
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I got an email from the faculty office the night before HSC results came out (ie. two days before UAI's were released, though the universities may have already had them at this stage). I don't quite remember the text, but I'm pretty sure it said that I would be offered a scholarship if I received the minimum UAI threshold of 95 (which I did). I got a proper confirmation phone call and letter within the next week, if I remember rightly. It's hard to know, I think they do use UAI's to a greater extent than they say - after all, if you only use trial HSC and school report marks, it's difficult to know whether those marks have been scaled by the school, if it was a particularly difficult trial exam, etc. - but I think that if once you're past the minimum UAI threshold, they really do pay a fair amount of attention to extra-curricular activities and such.I-Jester said:
As you'd know, you only have to submit one application in order to be eligible for most scholarships. The 'main' scholarship that people are talking about that is the University of Sydney Undergraduate Scholarship with Merit, valued at $5000 a year for five years. If you don't get this, you may get a University of Sydney Entry Award, which is a one-off payment of $5000.fleepbasding said:
You will also be considered for scholarships awarded by individual faculties. In most cases, you can't hold these simultaneously with a University scholarship, though some of them you can (especially if they are one-off payments). Faculty scholarships are usually worth less than the University one, which is why they're not the 'main' scholarship. In some cases, they're worth more - eg. in the Faculty of Eco and Business, where you can get up to $10,000 a year (though I think that's basically a $5000 bonus payment on top of a $5,000 University scholarship, if that makes sense).
The Outstanding Achievement scholarship is the same value as a Merit one, but you don't have to apply for it.
