UNSW University of New South Wales: Summary of the Workshop on November 19th

Here is the summary of today's UNSW conference:

1. Admission methods for 2025:

• Completed applications will be selected on merit, depending on course availability
• Deferred admissions will no longer be automatically approved
• Will introduceWeekly rounds of admissions, with offer letters having a 10-day acceptance period
• Applications for changing course preferences will no longer be processed
• Students from UNSW directly progressing to master's degrees are not subject to cap restrictions and need to patiently wait for the school to process.
• Changes for 2026 - More information will be shared with agents and potential clients in early 2025

1.1 Students who have submitted complete materials:

• Placed on the admission waiting list and reviewed in each admission round:
• Need to consider the number of course places available
• Selected on merit
• Students who do not meet the requirements will be informed of rejection

1.2 Students who have not submitted complete materials, i.e., need to supplement materials:

• Conditional offers are suspended
• Applicants who partially meet the admission requirements will be informed that their application can only be evaluated after providing relevant documents
• Students who temporarily do not meet the requirements will be asked to reapply, note that 2025 has closed

2. Future admission release and acceptance deadlines for UNSW:

The deadline for issuing offers and accepting offers is as follows:

3. Categories and times of offer issuance (undergraduate, postgraduate, etc., have classified issuance times)

4. Definition of merit-based admission

Academic performance uses WAM (Weighted Average Mark) to determine the academic performance at UNSW, and accordingly rank all international applicants.

• Admission to postgraduate courses at UNSW. A score calculator can be used to generate an approximate equivalent WAM for UNSW.
  
• The admissions department will rank all applicants based on their equivalent WAM and issue offer letters (through a round of admissions) until the course enrollment quota is full.
  
• Limited additional admissions for the first semester of 2025 - because the number of applicants exceeds the admission quota
  
• In early 2025, we hope to provide more offer letters for the 2nd and 3rd semesters of 2025.

5. Future offer expiration dates

From November 20, 2024, all new overseas student commencement (NOSC) offer holders will have a specific deadline (within 10 days, refer to the above table in 2) to accept or decline studying at UNSW. The offer validity period will be automatically generated when the offer letter is issued.

The following students do not have a 10-day offer deadline:

• Sponsored students
  
• UNSW College packaged offer courses
  
• Overseas students studying online
  
• Internal Program Transfer (IPT) students
  
• Higher Degree Research (HDR) students
  
• Non-degree students
• *Accepting an offer means the student must accept and pay the deposit

6. UNSW College vacancy website inquiry

To find out the Open/Pause status of UNSW College, you can check this webpage in real-time:

https://www.unswcollege.edu.au/important-notice

7. Some Q&A responses

Q: Can applicants whose offer letters have been withdrawn apply for a refund of the application fee? How can they apply for a refund if they don't want to wait anymore?

A: Applicants whose offer letters have been withdrawn and who have not opted into the admission waiting list will have their application fee automatically refunded (if applicable). Refunds will be received by December 20, 2024.

Q: Some students have not received withdrawal emails, such as students who have deferred admission, can such students still receive offers?

A: Deferred admissions have not been confirmed, the school is still reviewing

Q: For students who submitted applications before October 16 and whose applications have not yet been reviewed, do they still have a chance to receive offers? Is it based on merit-based admission? Is there a pattern to issuing offer letters?

A: Including existing applications and withdrawn offers, as long as they are in the waiting list, these applications will be selected on merit based on academic performance

Q: For students holding offer letters who have now met the admission conditions but cannot upload documents due to the late deadline of the offer letter. How to handle?

A: The UNSW admissions department is working on a process for submitting documents for conditional offer students on the waiting list, we expect to communicate further details about this process in the coming weeks.