How many scholarships are offered to students and how many are accepted/used?

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Okay so we often hear about loads of organisations offering scholarships for tertiary education for Australian students. We also often hear that the majority of these scholarships and never given out because not enough students apply for them.
My questions:

How many scholarships are usually offered to students at any given year?

And how many scholarships are actually given out at any given year?


Does anybody know?
Also, if you are wanting to get one of those academic scholarships based on academic merit, what ATAR score would one need?
Would you need to get 99.50+ ATAR or is 95+ ATAR suffficient?


Thanks!

[taiga]

Roughly speaking for Monash:

Purely academic you would be looking at 99.6+ for Engineering, 99.95 for Med, 99.90 for Law,  99.3+ for Science (single), 98+ for commerce (single). Haven't heard of arts scholarships.

At melbourne you need 99.95 for a guaranteed scholarship. There are various other ones that start from a 99.8 ish point.

Equity + Excellence (the criteria is pretty lose)
97 ish for Comm/Eng/Sci, and still 99.3+ for Law/Med

You can also get Melbourne Access scholarships depending on your course/circumstances.

We also often hear that the majority of these scholarships and never given out because not enough students apply for them.

Not for undergraduate entry, that's moreso for some specific course scholarships, or for postgrad/masters

[tcg93]

Also for Monash, if you find the specific scholarship you are after at http://www.adm.monash.edu.au/scholarships/, the number of scholarships given out for that specific one is listed

[stonecold]

This is what I know about Melbourne scholarships.

National Scholarships are given to all students who score 99.90 and 99.95.  You do not have to apply for them.
Victorian scholars receive $15,000 in payments + a HECS exempt degree
Interstate scholars receive $30,000 in payments + a HECS exempt degree

There are also ~10 of these scholarships available to students who have applied for SEAS and scored highly, but not quite high enough to get 99.90+  (I know someone with 99.70 who got one)

Then there are access scholarships.  These are based on your SEAS application and ATAR.  You don't need a ridiculously high ATAR to receive one of these.  ~95 with a decent SEAS application and you will probably get one.

Access scholars receive:
First year $6500, Second year $4000, Third year $3000.  You still have to pay HECS.

Then there are faculty specific scholarships which you have to apply for directly to the faculty.
I only know about the Biomedicine one, but I assume there would be others for different faculties.
The Biomedicine Scholarships (I think they give out 5) are worth $18,000.  You still have to pay HECS.
Two people who I know got these both scored 99.85.

You can read more about scholarships here:
http://www.services.unimelb.edu.au/scholarships/ugrad/future/index.html