Turn your best HSC subjects into a UOW degree with Early Entry.

Early Entry for study at UOW in 2012 has now closed. Applications for Year 12 students starting uni in 2013 will open July 2012.

Early Entry is how you can earn a place in a Bachelor degree at UOW before you sit the HSC. 

It is open to students completing Year 12 and receiving an ATAR.

Successful applicants can receive either:

• A guaranteed offer of a place at UOW
• A conditional offer of a place at UOW, typically requiring the applicant a certain grade in relevant HSC subjects.

Early Entry applicants are assessed based on their school academic record, not just the ATAR.

 

The table below provides details of notifications for each faculty.

Faculty	Date Notifications Sent	Method of Notification
Faculty of Arts	No later than 12 October 2011	Initial email notification, followed by posted letter
Faculty of Commerce	12 and 13 October 2011	Email
Faculty of Creative Arts	11 October 2011	Posted letter*
Faculty of Education	Week ending 7 October 2011	Initial email notification, followed by posted letter
Faculty of Engineering	11 October 2011	Posted letter*
Faculty of Health & Behavioural Science	13 October 2011	Initial email notification, followed by posted letter
Faculty of Informatics	Week ending 7 October 2011	Posted letter*
Faculty of Law	Week ending 7 October 2011	Email
Faculty of Science	Week ending 7 October 2011	Posted letter*

* Applicants should note that delivery times for posted letters may vary between next day delivery and several days.

If you have not received your notification within a reasonable period of time from the above date, please contact the faculty you have applied to directly to learn your outcome.  Faculty contact details can be found here. 

For further Early Entry information refer to our FAQs page.

Please note that final outcome information is not available to staff monitoring the Early Entry email address and telephone enquiries number.  Applicants chasing final outcome information through these contact points will be referred to individual faculties.

 

How do I accept my Early Entry Place?

Successful Early Entry applicants are not required to do anything at this point in time to accept their Early Entry place.  Places are accepted by receiving an official offer into the course from UAC in January 2012, and then accepting this UAC offer.

For this reason it is vital that successful Early Entry applicants also do the following:

• Have lodged an application with UAC (on time UAC applications closed 30 September 2011, so you have hopefully already completed this step.  If not you can still submit a UAC application however it will incur a late application fee)
• Complete the HSC for all subjects undertaken
• Receive an ATAR from UAC in December 2011

Following the release of HSC and ATAR results (December 14 - 16, 2011) you will have until Thursday 5 January 2012 to finalise UAC preferences for Main Round Offers. For your Early Entry place to be activated and an offer made through UAC it will need to be your Highest Eligible Preference. 

Highest Eligible Preference is not necessarily the same as your First Preference.

Your first preference is the first course you list in your UAC preferences.
Your highest eligible preference is the first course in your list of preferences that you successfully meet entry requirements for. This is the course that UAC will make you an offer to. Your highest eligible preference can be any one of your UAC preferences. 

What does successfully meeting entry requirements mean?

Generally this means achieving the ATAR or other published entry requirements for the course.
In the case of successful Early Entry applicants it also means you have:
    a) Received a Guaranteed offer to the course, or
    b) Received a Conditional offer to the course, and met the stated conditions

Early Entry and UAC Preferences

As explained in all notification letters, for any Early Entry place to be activated it will need to be your Highest Eligible Preference when UAC make main round offers.  
That is, if it is the first course in your list of preferences that you meet the entry requirements for (as explained above), then you will receive an offer to the course from UAC. If you have another course listed ahead of your Early Entry course in your UAC preferences, and you successfully meet the entry requirements for that course, then UAC will make you an offer to the course listed higher in your preferences and you will forfeit your Early Entry place.