Careers
Claire Pech – Careers Advisor
Last week, I went through the Early Offers process with Year 12s. Everyone gets excited about early offers, thinking it is a very straightforward process. Unfortunately, there is some homework to be done here. The offers available may not suit the student in terms of institutions, courses available and most importantly the conditions attached.
I will summarise my presentation. My slides can also be found here.
These are the institutions that are involved in the Schools Recommended Scheme (SRS). This scheme allows students to get offers after their HSC but before the usual round in December. It allows a student a month free of stressing about whether they got a place or not. It usually refers to conditions attached to student grades in Year 11 and also schools rating (or ability and aptitudes). These places are released in November. Institutions involved in the scheme:
- Australian Catholic University
- Charles Sturt University
- International College of Management Sydney
- Macquarie University
- National Art School
- SAE Creative Media
- University of Canberra
- University of New England
- University of Newcastle
- University of Sydney
- University of Technology Sydney
- Western Sydney University
UTS and University of Sydney, which are usually the most coveted by Emanuel students, also have an associated condition that students must also have applied to UAC with an EAS application (Educational Access Scheme – under category of financial disadvantage) Please read here for more details.
What I think is of much more value and significance are those schemes that allow students to get into an institution long before this date in November, sometimes as early as June, July and August. Students must prove that they are eligible and can do so by academics, or by leadership or extracurricular involvement. But never by just hoping they can get an early offer for no reason. Some of these are:
- The Macquarie University Global Leadership Program here
- Australian Catholic University (ACU) Community Achiever Program here
- Notre Dame – Early Offers (both for academic and leadership) here
- Australian National University (ANU in Canberra) but these places are usually conditional here
This slide is a good one to have printed out and stuck up at home:
