yet another confusion! (1 Viewer)

[strawberry]

let's imagine the following senario, shall we:

person 1 goes to ANU to study commerce and want to transfer back to USYD to do commerce in 2nd year. But the exams are hard and she passes the year with mostly credits and one or two distinctions.

ON THE OTHER HAND......

person 2 goes to UWS to study commerce and wants to transfer to USYD as well to do commerce in 2nd year. Her exams were really easy and she passes with mostly distinctions and 1 or 2 credits.

PROBLEM........

who will UAC pick to be the lucky one to transfer to USYD to do commerce in the 2nd year??

 

[Minai]

UAC chooses whoever has the higher average of UAI and 1st year GPA

assuming both Person 1 and 2 have the same UAI, then person 2 would have the more likely chance of getting the transfer, because his/her grade point average is higher

 

[strawberry]

but person 2 had really easy exams!!!

and person 1 had hard ones!!!

doesnt UAC take that into account??

 

[Minai]

no they don't
its based on results

anyway, the difficulty of exams are pretty much the same across most uni's...and each uni has their scaling system that compensates for overly difficult or easy exams

 

[strawberry]

what r my chances of transfering if my GPA is high but my UAI is low??

 

[Minai]

well, u'd have a good chance I'd say, because of the fact that Non-recent school leaver cutoffs are generally lower than UAI cutoffs
depends how low your UAI is though, because remember, its an average of your UAI and 1st year GPA

 

[strawberry]

what do you mean an "average of my uai"??

i got a uai of like mid 80s

and wanna transfer back to usyd

 

[zaijan_85]

GPA + UAI / 2

 

[strawberry]

zaijan_85

wouldn't your GPA + UAI /2 average be lower than ur actually UAI??

does does dat work?!?!?!

 

[strawberry]

okai...ignore my post...

everything makes sense now!!

 

[Minai]

just to clear it up - ur GPA is converted into a selection rank
so a GPA of 6.0 (distinction average) equals a rank of 96
so ur UAI of 85 and GPA equalling 96 will give u a score of 90.5

 

[evilc]

Originally posted by Minai
just to clear it up - ur GPA is converted into a selection rank
so a GPA of 6.0 (distinction average) equals a rank of 96

do you know how they work our this selection rank?

 

[Minai]

yes

it is located here:
http://www.scu.edu.au/admin/stuadmin/findyourplace/find7.pdf

 

[evilc]

cool, thanks

 

[tonberry_kun]

Originally posted by Minai
just to clear it up - ur GPA is converted into a selection rank
so a GPA of 6.0 (distinction average) equals a rank of 96
so ur UAI of 85 and GPA equalling 96 will give u a score of 90.5

with that... doesnt it mean it's like nearly impossible to transfer to law?
or is the non-recent school leaver cutoffs really that much lower than uai?

 

[Dingo]

yeh its bullshit.
most courses like business requires around mid 90s
and usually ppls who wanna transfer are ppls who couldnt get in with 80s who do business elsewhere such as uws
and then they do good and still get into usyd or uts or wateva.
so das not how they choose it.
its based on GPA more i recon, and UAI will also b considered but not with the formula minai showed yous. otherwise how da hell did my friends who got uai of 70s and went to uws and did business transfered to uts and do business with a credit average.
you see, obviously minai's formula is wrong.

peace^^

 

[Minai]

Non-recent school leaver cutoffs are almost always lower than actual UAI cutoffs for ex-Year 12's
example:
UNSW Law - the NRSL cutoff for 2003 was 95.80
my UAI was 95.25 in 2002, and my GPA in 2003 was 6.0 (which means a converted rank of 96)
these two both averaged gives a score of 95.625
(for those interested, the cutoff for USYD law in 2003 was 96.47)

so Dingo, thats how the hell ur friends transferred from wherever to wherever, because NRSL cutoffs are lower than Year 12 UAI cutoffs - but we dont know these cutoffs, u have to ask the individual uni's

 

[johnson]

what exactly is non-recent school leaver, ii read somewhere that it's at least 24..?

or is that mature aged entry
..or are they the same thing
argh it's fucking confusing.

basically, i'm asking if, for exampl for you and me who are transferring courses, will we get lower cut off marks to the 2003 people?

 

[Dingo]

alright sorry minai.
your right and im wrong.

peace^^

 

[Minai]

a non-recent school leaver applying for uni is anyone who was not in Year 12 2003 - which means us johnson..

we get lower cutoffs in the numerical sense, but it's still competitive and the cutoffs are determined by demand, jus like UAI cutoffs