• WACE

  • Literature or English!!! HUGE DILEMMA!

haha that’s cute

unbelievable how this megathread spawned all because @doe was asking whether to do eng or lit

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    guys the UWA interview offers for MD and dent came out today did anyone get one???

    yeah just for UWA

    really surprised considering my UCAT was 68th but Broadway must have played a large part in it

    did you get one?

    I didn’t apply for it

    omg why didn't you apply?
    no, i didn't 🙁
    i'm starting to think somethings wrong with the system or smth
    ik people who got lower ucat than me and lower-than-avg casper scores and they still got in!! its crazy and idk what to do about it

    I didn’t apply for curtin cos my school isn’t step-up

    also my predicted ATAR plus ucat score werent competitive enough so I definitely wouldn’t have been shortlisted for interview no matter how stellar my Casper score was 🙁

      Arcadia ohh makes sense
      do you know anyone or have you heard of cases where ppl who didnt get into first round interviews got into 2nd round? i'm new to this and idk who to ask

        apparently there is no second round of interviews for UWA

        But there is for curtin so there’s hope for us (except me) yet

          Arcadia yeah i would rather curtin over uwa, but my question is do you know anyone who got 2nd round but didnt get 1st round?

            6 days later

            Idk man my friend with 84th UCAT and 96+ predicted ATAR didn’t get an interview

            But i do want to ask how many points does Step-up curtin give bc u might end up with a really competitive ATAR like 99+ then u might get an interview as long as you did good for CASPER as well I think?

            sorry idk anyone who got in second round

            howwww??
            it gives 5 points if your atar is above 70 and youre on the list of schools
            idk bc someone told me that they first look at the raw atars that are higher than yours before they add on the bonus points

            Well im not sure for curtin but for UWA they add on the +5 for Broadway regardless. I know because my predicted (97.45 in y11 sem 2 and 96.35 in y12 sem 1) were nowhere near the minimum of 98. So with the extra points given I was able to be considered for admission. It would make sense for Curtin to have a similar approach imo. Plus there are not as many strong students as you think from Broadway/Step-up schools so a lot of the ATARs even with the +5 aren’t really competitive.

            As long as you get 95+ as a WACE atar I think you might be fine.

            Also this is pasted from the curtin website:

            ‘If your ATAR is 70 or above, and you’re eligible for StepUp, you will receive five additional points, up to 99.95’

            yeah but that still doesnt make sense for my case. my year 11 predicted atar, based on 2022 atar results, was around 90-91. if they added 5 points it wouldve been 95-96, which could have been considered for 1st round interview offers esp bc my casper score isnt bad. i dont understand why they didnt consider me.
            right now i think my predicted (based on atarnotes calculator) is 95 so hopefully it stays like that after wace exams

            yea that’s because your ATAR wasn’t competitive enough like mine also why my friend didn’t get in with 96+ predicted (he didn’t have step up like you did) so the chance of first round interview offers would be slim

            However the second round interview offers are based on your actual final WACE ATAR which is why I said above that 95+ WACE with step-up should be enough.

            Hope you manage to get the ATAR you need!! 😊

            6 days later

            hi again! i hope ur interviews went well !! I was just wondering, what did you guys use to prepare for UCAT? what did you find that worked best?

              sammy

              I used medify although I have heard that medentry is better