Future Students

Applications for Early Entry 2011 are now closed

For detailed information on the specific entry requirements, application and assessment procedures for each faculty follow the links below:

How to Apply

You apply for Early Entry Online. No hardcopy or emailed applications will be accepted.

Once you submit your application, what happens next will depend on which degrees you have applied for, but may include attending an on-campus interview or event. UOW faculties will start sending out offers from 23 September, and all applicants will know the outcome of their application before the HSC exams start on 17 October. If you receive an Early Entry offer, you must also apply through UAC to make that offer valid.

The application

The Early Entry online application will ask for you to nominate a maximum of four degrees to apply to. You can apply for a range of double degrees, which count as one choice, and you may automatically be considered for the relevant single degrees.

Once you have selected these, it will ask for a range of supporting information based on the degrees you have chosen.

After you’ve started your application and added at least one degree preference, you can save it and return later. You will be able to resume and update the application as many times as you want before the closing date. However, once your application is submitted, it cannot be altered.

What you need

To assess your suitability for Early Entry, we require evidence of your past academic achievements.

You may be required to provide any of the following information during your application:

Board of Studies Number (or 8-digit interstate equivalent for students outside of NSW)
NSW School Certificate Results (or end of year 10 interstate equivalent)
Final Year 11 results in all subjects
Mid-year Year 12 results in all subjects
Short explanation about why you want to study the degrees you are applying to
Telephone referee (must not be a school-based referee e.g. teacher, or careers or year adviser)
Details of extracurricular activities

What happens next

Once you submit your application for assessment, a number of things may happen, depending on which degrees you have applied for.

Please note you must apply through UAC as well for any Early Entry offer to be valid.

Contact for more information

You may be contacted by UOW to provide certified copies of the supporting information (academic transcripts etc.) provided during your application.

Interview or on-campus event

You may be required to attend an interview or on-campus event. Some degrees will direct you to the online booking form as soon as you submit your Early Entry application. For others, the faculty may contact you after reviewing your application. Some faculties hold on-campus testing and information events. If this applies to you, the faculty will contact you with details.

If you’re invited to interview, our Early Entry Interview Guide tells you what to expect.

Applying through UAC

Regardless of any Early Entry offer you may receive, only the Universities Admission Centre (UAC) can make a formal offer to study at UOW. You must also apply through UAC for any courses you have Early Entry offers to if you want your Early Entry offer to be activated.

How it Works

UAC will assess your list of preferences from first to last. Your highest eligible preference is the first degree in your list of preferences that you meet all the requirements for. One of these requirements is achieving a certain ATAR.

When we notify you of an Early Entry offer, we also notify UAC. We inform them that UOW considers you ready to study that particular degree based on your Early Entry application—the normal ATAR requirement for that degree no longer applies to you.

UAC only makes one offer to each applicant. Once an offer is made to your highest eligible preference, any courses ranked lower on your preference list are not considered, and the process is finished.

You can change your UAC preferences until midnight 5 January 2012. See the UAC web site for more information on choosing preferences.

For More Information

If you have any questions about how your application will be assessed, contact the relevant faculty directly.

Faculty Email	Contact number
Faculty of Arts	(02) 4221 4838
Faculty of Commerce	(02) 4221 5589
Faculty of Creative Arts	(02) 4221 3996
Faculty of Education	(02) 4221 3316
Faculty of Engineering	(02) 4221 4182
Faculty of Health & Behavioural Sciences	(02) 4221 5704
Faculty of Informatics	(02) 4221 4482
Faculty of Law	(02) 4221 5116
Faculty of Science	(02) 4221 3512