what happens if your close to the course cut-off? (1 Viewer)

[ztune]

im off by .75 could there still be a change i could get in?

 

[BlackDragon]

no i don't think so

 

[bubz :D]

Yes there is. Besides, there is the chance that the cutoff will be lower.

 

[Optophobia]

When and where are cut-offs released?

 

[tennille]

UAI cut-offs as well as main round offers will be published in the newspaper (I think both the Daily Telegraph and SMH) on 18/01/07, the day after main round offers are made over the internet.

 

[Sprinkles~]

Yep, there's a chance. It would depend on the demand for the course, so if there was still spaces you could possibly get in. good luck

 

[ztune]

LOL thank Dragon for the negativity

 

[thenothing]

Aren't rough cutoffs published a lot earlier? I seem to remember them being published earlier last year :/

 

[shinji]

wat bout 3 points below? haha

i need 93
but got 90.45

>_<

 

[AsyLum]

*sigh*

Understand that it is really just basic supply and demand.

Every uni will have a certain quota for the places in a course, and when they fill this quota, say 2,500 people, the 2,500th person's UAI will be taken as the 'cutoff'.

Nothing more, nothing less. Its safe to assume 1-5 point deviation for most things, but there have been up to 10 points in some years.

 

[shinji]

*sigh*

Understand that it is really just basic supply and demand.

Every uni will have a certain quota for the places in a course, and when they fill this quota, say 2,500 people, the 2,500th person's UAI will be taken as the 'cutoff'.

Nothing more, nothing less. Its safe to assume 1-5 point deviation for most things, but there have been up to 10 points in some years.

thanks for the explanation!

sooo i have a chance!! >_<
slim chance .. but a chance non-theless ^__^
i really hope the demand for commerce @ unsw is small <_<

but a question, what was with the uac 2oo7 guide cutoff's for courses?
was it a rough estimate according to last year?

 

[sydneyphoenix]

Not only the cut-off may go down, sometimes the uni inflates the cut-off for some reason and people can get in with lower UAI. One of my friends who's doing Science (Advanced) at USYD got UAI that's more than 2 points lower than the cut-off but she somehow got the offer in the main round. On the other hand the other friend who had higher UAI than the first friend (but still below the cut-off) didn't make it (he scraped through the late round), so it beats me how that works.

 

[AsyLum]

Quotas.

If they haven't fulfilled the quota or a few people don't turn up/reject, then they'll take people in. Unis need to fill the quota for CSP places or else they have to pay the government back.

 

[livOantO]

i fink its around this date. 18/01/07

 

[ari89]

I'm off for my top 2 preferences by 0.05 lol...hopefully they're flexible (assuming the cut-off remains steady)

 

[jackal8]

The UAI cut off's, as far as I know, are inflated due to special admission which reduce the supply of places thus inflating the UAI. But I don't know how your freind got in when he/she acheived below the cut-off, nepotism.

May I also deflate some of your balloons of hope by saying that courses such as commerce @ UNSW will not very by more then 1 or at the very most 2 UAI points due to the consistency of the demand, unless you have found that the supply of places has increased this year.

Either way, I hope you all get rich.