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EvangelionZeta:
What ARE the things they're looking for in PhB applicants?  Given that they say the minimum is 99 for ATAR on the website (although obv. Eriny shows that it isn't always necessary), would it be along the lines of "Look at ENTER first and most importantly, and then consider other achievements/referee reports etc."?

Eriny:
I guess I had other things. For instance, I did really well in UMEP (I topped it) and had really awesome referee reports. I guess they're really just looking for people who are likely to succeed in the programme and who are likely to make ANU look good.

It's definitely possible to choose your major as something you've never studied before. My majors are anthropology and philosophy, neither of which I learned in school. I'm not sure how a language major works in terms of research units, but I'm sure that something would be figured out.

With the research units - the first one is a seminar-based course with the rest of the first year cohort, which is nice because you meet all the people in the same situation as you, and they tend to turn up unexpectedly in many of your units as well. Anyway, it's a pretty good course, you're meant to reflect on issues surrounding different disciplines, postmodernism, an the nature of knowledge and academic research in relation to knowledge. There are also some practical elements, like how to write well. After that course, it's entirely up to you. It's good in a way, because it means that you will have done at least a semester of study in your chose discipline and should have a better grasp of it (and whether you still want to study it!), so that can help as well.

gimp6408:
vc they dont care what you write, is seriously just enter-based, unless you were borderline (like 98)... but that will clearly not happen to you unless you like, get in a freak gasoline accident and then fail the gat. i dont think anyone was borderline in our year cause the 'lowest' got 99.35, so goodbye written piece. they also dont care about achievements or extra-curricular, or as you know, i would never ever have gotten in.

(btw i looked at the james lu thread like you told me to. lulzzzzzz. that is all. like james lu is mortal.
also, macrob came third. double lulzzzz. is what happens when im not there to terrorise the younger kids, obvs.)

back to being relevant, the 'seminar-based' course you do in first year is a) now a year long, and b) a waste of time - we learned what a paradigm was, and that was it. we did lots of philosophy stuff, apaz in eriny's year they got lots of anthro stuff because their lecturer was an anthro person. unfortunately for us, only like two people were interested in philosophy, hence we just doodled for two hours a week. the only good thing is you become friends, and eat lots of tim-tams. except for eriny's year, they never really became friends or so i hear. plus, our phb guy got diabetes so the tim-tams stopped too. the injustice never ends.

you can choose a major that youve never done before fo sho. i chose 3 majors that id never done before, two of them languages, and i did really well. i dont do them for the advanced studies courses (will do so in third year though), but i know someone did arabic and french as their majors a coupla years back and did them as their research course, so have a chat to larry and he will guide you. theres someone who is applying for phb next year from wa who is learning like six languages and intends to make at least three of them their majors from what i hear, starting some from scratch next year, so if they got in, you wont be alone. the phb coordinator said that they were like a child prodigy or something, whack.

(this is obvs my brothers account, i cant remember what my account name is, something about flowers)

jejak:
Thanks so much for the post above - very informative. Intrigued to hear that you can undertake a triple major - is this usual? - and that you can study a language, or languages, from scratch. If I decide to study more language-oriented subjects, I'm thinking French, German, and linguistics, with the last of these as my advanced studies course, at least until my French and German improve!

Also glad to hear that entry is primarily ENTER-based. But more importantly, who is this Larry that I need to speak to haha?

Eriny:
Larry (or Lawrence) Saha basically organises the PhB programme. PhB kids have to see him at least once a semester and he helps to organise things like supervision and he asks what subjects we intend to do each semester and make sure we're meeting the HD average requirement.

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