scholarships?

[Mr Edwards]

1) By how much can a scholarship pay off for one's tertiary course?
2) are interviews commonly undertaken to decide which applicants are worthy?
3) A scholarship is usually something given based because of academic merit. would you need a high ATAR to obtain one? what ATAR score guarantees one a scholarship? Do you need a high ATAR to obtain a scholarship?
4) If you receive a scholarship however choose to defer the relevant course that you got into can you also postpone the usage of the scholarship?

...soz, i go to a shitty school where we are told nothing and nobody knows anything.

[Eriny]

There are so many different scholarships on offer, that you really need to look at the criteria of each specific one. Generally, universities offer two kinds of scholarships (though, if you look at their websites, there might be other types as well): 1) ones for academic merit which are quite difficult to get. For most of these, you'd want in the high 99s, although it depends where you're going. 2) Ones given to people who have a low socio-economic background. For those, you'll need to show that you are economically disadvantaged. Generally, a high ATAR helps, but that isn't necessarily the most important criteria.

Scholarships can be pretty generous, but at an undergraduate level, you're unlikely to get a scholarship with enough money to independently live off - if you're moving out and stuff, you need a job. The exception to this is if you get a scholarship with the defence force, but if you get one of those, you're pretty much locked into a career with the military for 6+ years.

Also, you usually can defer scholarships, but not always.

[Momo.05]

I was wondering since I was unlucky enough to miss the deadline for RMIT scholarships. Do you reckon they would still offer RMIT MERIT EQUITY SCHOLARSHIPS in second round, that is if they offer a second round scholarship?

[Momo.05]

Has anyone ever got a scholarship in second round of rmit before?