shattered!! missed out by that much...

[gamblor0]

did anyone else miss out on their course by very little?
i got 93.45, however missed out on civil engineering/management by 0.3

just a question, there were only 18 positions available, so is there much chance of me getting a round 2 offer?

thanks for any help!

[Stroodle]

I think there's definitely a decent chance - considering that the cutoff was that low with only 18 spots

[taiga]

If one of the 18 pull out, my bet is that you will get it

[taiga]

Otherwise do the civil engineering and try to transfer into management/engineering the year after, you will only be 1 or 2 subjects behind the others

[werdna]

If one of the 18 pull out, my bet is that you will get it

This.. and heaps of people defer offers.

[andy456]

i missed out on science/law at monash by 0.55 so i feel your frustration..... Hopefully a couple of people defer or reject these offers so i can scrape in

[curious111]

UoM Biomed by 0.1, not holding my breath for a second round offer.

[stonecold]

UoM Biomed by 0.1, not holding my breath for a second round offer.

Utter bull shit.

It defies logic how they can justify giving offers to people with as low as 88, whilst people such as yourself are virtually left out to dry.

[Slumdawg]

UoM Biomed by 0.1, not holding my breath for a second round offer.

I still feel awful about this. There's no justice in it at all. I think they've taken SEAS too far (melb uni specifically). You DEFINITELY deserved a place, I think it's completely ridiculous that they're accepting so many people well below the clearly in and yet rejecting 98+ers who are obviously very hard-working and would be perfect for the course. Oh well, their loss. Good luck in science!

[taiga]

98.45 for any uni course is straight up ridiculous.

I think SEAS can often be TOO nice... Some people I know who get SEAS/Equity Scholarships are considerably more well off than the majority of the cohort.

[stonecold]

98.45 for any uni course is straight up ridiculous.

I think SEAS can often be TOO nice... Some people I know who get SEAS/Equity Scholarships are considerably more well off than the majority of the cohort.

I swear to god SEAS is rubbish.  Most people just abuse the system.  But I do not blame them, I blame the system.

Some of those categories are a joke.

Anything other than severe medical circumstances or socio economic disadvantage is hardly worthy of special consideration IMO.

I wish they would just scrap SEAS, and then all special consideration applications would need to be approved by school principals and backed up with fully written documentation provided by medical practitioners and financial institutions.

At the moment, anyone can get on there and make up a load of bullshit, go have their doctor write up a letter or print off a youth allowance statement, and voila, they qualify.

And another load of rubbish is under represented schools.  Firstly, there are so many of them, that I don't see the point.  Secondly, ALL students from these schools should automatically qualify to be considered under this category.  Why should they have to apply for it?

I have a friend who no one told that our school was under represented, so he didn't do a SEAS app.  He is now in a similar predicament to curious and has missed the B.Commerce cutoff by 0.25, whilst other people with the same and lower ATARs will get in, because they were instructed to tick some stupid box on their application.

The whole VCE/VTAC/SEAS system is a joke.  It is not about education and learning.  It is about exploiting the system to the point where it is considerably unfair.  Scaling and a SEAS application.  This is often what will get you into your course.  Sad, but true.

[taiga]

yeah someone i know figured out a way to get a youth allowance, which in turn got them a monash merit and equity scholarship

[Kennybhoy]

98.45 for any uni course is straight up ridiculous.

I think SEAS can often be TOO nice... Some people I know who get SEAS/Equity Scholarships are considerably more well off than the majority of the cohort.

A friend of mine was inelligible for SEAS. She had depression and attempted suicide a week before the English exam. Apparently since it was a long-term thing, she couldn't get SEAS.

[taiga]

98.45 for any uni course is straight up ridiculous.

I think SEAS can often be TOO nice... Some people I know who get SEAS/Equity Scholarships are considerably more well off than the majority of the cohort.

A friend of mine was inelligible for SEAS. She had depression and attempted suicide a week before the English exam. Apparently since it was a long-term thing, she couldn't get SEAS.

Yet the bloke who stole your 99.95 girlfriend and went to a private school for 9 years got SEAS for being poor

[curious111]

UoM Biomed by 0.1, not holding my breath for a second round offer.

I still feel awful about this. There's no justice in it at all. I think they've taken SEAS too far (melb uni specifically). You DEFINITELY deserved a place, I think it's completely ridiculous that they're accepting so many people well below the clearly in and yet rejecting 98+ers who are obviously very hard-working and would be perfect for the course. Oh well, their loss. Good luck in science!

Thanks , i'm certainly still really excited about doing Science at UoM; if you had offered it to me at the start of year 12 I would have jumped all over it. You can even argue there are some beneficial aspects of it, such as a bit more freedom with subject choices and (potentially?) more easy to obtain higher grades.

Best thing though (by virtue of my surname) is that my AAD doesn't start until 11am; the way my body clock is at the moment, I would be no hope for a 9am start