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alison_z said:
Thanks :D Now i'm deciding between Charles Sturt and UTS - Charles Sturt has the course i want but it's in Bathurst! Offers begin 20th Jan and we've got a while to fiddle with our preferences!!
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They're both pretty good courses from what I've heard. What's the ATAR for Media and Communications at Sydney this year? Probably 99.95 or something equally as outrageous :eek:
 
My good friend duxed our school at 99.75.

I got 90.95, nothing to brag about really, got into my course (as far as I know), but still... 95 was my goal so I'm disappointed.
 
alison_z said:
i got 95.90 which will get me into a few journalism courses i want to do so now i just have to decide!!! How'd everyone else go??
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Which Journalism Courses? I'm thinking Bachelor of Arts at 84 for Sydney Uni. I got 96.15 so juuust off Advanced Arts (Honours) so I'm a bit bummed.
 

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Hooley McBoob said:
They're both pretty good courses from what I've heard. What's the ATAR for Media and Communications at Sydney this year? Probably 99.95 or something equally as outrageous :eek:
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DO NOT DO. Every single journalist I've spoken to has rubbished that degree. BA is much more highly regarded. MC is only if you want to be the next Sandra Sully.
 
Engineering & Medical Science @ USYD - 90.95

Everything happens for a reason...

Hopefully I get into Lib Arts/Science or Arts/Science if I don't get into Eng/Med. If they had a Med Science & Arts course, I would've zoomed in, worked my arse off to be there.

Now I'm getting Law urges too.

This is all so shit. I hate you, Chemistry. If I kept Bio and got 85 in it I would have had an ATAR of 96.45. ****************************.
 

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Don't worry about it K. Once you're in at Sydney Uni, you're in. Get a credit average in your first year (not hard) and you can transfer to whatever the hell you want (not Med tho, obvs) in 2011.
 
Nah, 50/50 if you're applying to B Laws. At the end of your course when doing something postgraduate, it's 75-25 (GPA to ATAR), and it's recommended that you have an ATAR of at least 90.

I'm going to be doing the UMAT every year and applying to Med at UNSW, UWS, Newcastle, etc.. Doing the UMAT sounds much easier than doing the GAMSAT.

Plan on studying my arse off to get HD's. I slacked this year, so it's my time!
 
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ssfc0203 said:
Awesome. I'm ready to study as hard as I need to since I slacked off majorly last year.

When you apply for Graduate Law or Med or Dentistry, is only the ATAR considered, the GPA or half/half, 3/4 and 1/4 ?
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As far as I know, for Grad Med and Dent the ATAR isn't even considered. It's your GPA plus your GAMSAT plus interview. Some places use the GPA as a hurdle, for example, if your GPA is less than 5.5 they won't even consider you for an interview, no matter how good your GAMSAT mark. Other places use the GPA and GAMSAT in combination for when considering interviews.

K you don't even need to be worrying about this right now. Just focus on doing well in your first year at Uni.
 
Yeah, Hooley's right about the weighting. Applications Dentistry and Medicine are only assessed based on GAMSAT results, WAM/GPA, and an interview (GAMSAT being the most important).

'Graduate' Law is actually an undergraduate degree (it's the same law degree as people doing combined law do), so ATAR results still count. when I was working there, it was a 75% WAM/GPA - 25% UAI split. I imagine it's still the same.

She's not right about a credit average enabling you to transfer into whatever you want, though. Like you said, most transfer applications are assessed on a 50/50 split of ATAR and GPA. So your high school results still count in a massive way.

For most courses that people want to transfer into - ones in the 90s - , you'd want your ATAR to be within about 5 points of the cutoff, and at least a high credit average.

Obviously, the higher one of those marks is, the less pressure there is on the other component (so if you'd only missed the ATAR cutoff by .05, you'll probably just need a credit average. If, however, you missed the ATAR cutoff by 5 full points, you'd be looking at a distinction average).

For the really competitive courses (like Combined Law, or Arts [Media & Communcations]), you'd realistically need an ATAR result within one point of the cutoff, and at least a distinction average. When I was working at the uni, we were basically told that if your UAI was less then 98, you had **** all chance of being able to transfer into Combined Law.
 

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Oh, and almost every humanities based course at Sydney Uni - Political, Economic & Social Science, Media & Communications, International & Global Studies, etc - is just a rebranded Arts degree where you have to do particular subjects.

Other than a handful of specialist subjects, a student doing a straight BA can complete the exact same subjects as someone doing one of the fancy ones.

It's essentially a branding exercise since the Bachelor of Arts has been so badly devalued in the popular consciousness (ie: 'bloody lazy Arts students').

If you're applying to braindead employers in a few years, it may help you if your degree reads "Bachelor of Interntional & Global Studies" instead of "Bachelor of Arts", but you will have studied the exact same thing.
 
Aaaah. Same goes for the Sciency degrees? They'd be a bit more specialised though, I think.

I was thinking of transferring to Law if I didn't like Science, but since I got 90.95 I screwed it up for myself there.

I guess I don't have to worry about this yet, but I don't want to spend 3 or 4 years in a degree that means nothing. That's partly why I chose the Engineering and Med degree, pharma companies like Resmed are looking for ENGINEERS, graduates and interns. I figure a combination of the both can only help me.
 
J_Moore said:
She's not right about a credit average enabling you to transfer into whatever you want, though. Like you said, most transfer applications are assessed on a 50/50 split of ATAR and GPA. So your high school results still count in a massive way.
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When I transferred your ATAR only counted if you had done less than 2 full semesters of study. If you had done 2 full semesters, only your Uni marks counted.
 
So even if you transfer in the final year of your degree your ATAR will still count?

I transferred twice and the second time (4th year) my UAI meant nothing. It only counted when I applied for Liberal Studies in first year.
 

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