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GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51417 Posts
January 19 2011 10:19 GMT
#1
As I mentioned before in my 30,000 post blog, I (then) had just applied for several universities, looking to further extend my knowledge on the East Asian region and (hopefully) further my learning of Korean and its related culture.

Unfortunately due to me choking in my final exams (stress, nerves etc), I got into the course I least wanted, which was a Bachelor of Arts at UWS (University of Western Sydney). My intent with this is to do a year over there (as I looked at their classes and they seemed pretty interesting and relevant) and then transferring over to a more higher university (UNSW, USYD or ANU) with the intent of completing my degree, majoring in Korean (UWS doesn't offer a Korean major).

Either way, I'm going to take the year off, to earn some money (I've got a job lined up at a restaurant at the end of the month, I hope), and to see if I can do anything e-Sports related outside of my city, now that I'm out of school.

Anyway... this might be bleak, but are there any forum goers that go to UWS at the moment? Heard lots of stuff about Western Sydney being dodgy, but that's about it.

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Aus)MaCrO
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Australia349 Posts
January 19 2011 11:04 GMT
#2
I go to USYD, but I have friends that go to UWS. It isn't too dodgy or anything from what they say, so I wouldn't worry.
jongim
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada289 Posts
January 19 2011 11:33 GMT
#3
GTR FIGHTINGGG
i am catlul
hoppipolla
Profile Joined January 2010
Australia782 Posts
January 19 2011 11:34 GMT
#4
What dodgy rumours have you heard about UWS? I have a friend there doing a Bachelor of Science degree and she really enjoys it there. Lots of schools get bad reputations just from the area they're in and exaggeration from people that don't even go there. Just out of curiosity what subjects did you do and what were your preferences?
"It's not acceptable"
chogoling
Profile Joined April 2009
Australia173 Posts
January 19 2011 11:36 GMT
#5
if you don't mind me asking, what ATAR did you get?
[TA] Terror Australis
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51417 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-19 11:50:10
January 19 2011 11:40 GMT
#6
On January 19 2011 20:34 hoppipolla wrote:
What dodgy rumours have you heard about UWS? I have a friend there doing a Bachelor of Science degree and she really enjoys it there. Lots of schools get bad reputations just from the area they're in and exaggeration from people that don't even go there.


Sorry, I didn't mean the university itself, but rather the area of Western Sydney (in comparison to other parts where UNSW and USYD are located).

On January 19 2011 20:36 chogoling wrote:
if you don't mind me asking, what ATAR did you get?


70.85

On January 19 2011 20:34 hoppipolla wrote:
Just out of curiosity what subjects did you do and what were your preferences?


English (Advanced), Mathematics, Economics, Modern History, Software Design

After the first year of the course I hated the fucking guts out of all of them except Modern History. Especially Mathematics and Software Design, my brain couldn't handle Maths at all for some reason and I completely lost interest in Software as it was extremely tedious in the end. I really regret doing these subjects looking back in hindsight (ideally I would have liked to have focused more on the humanity-style subjects e.g Legal, Modern and a language of some sort).

My preferences were;
Arts/Asia-Pacific Studies at ANU,
Arts at both UNSW/USYD,
just the Asia-Pacific degree at ANU
then lastly the UWS course.

If somehow I manage to get a second round offer, then I'll definitely jump on it, but for now it looks like UWS.
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youngminii
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Australia7514 Posts
January 19 2011 11:42 GMT
#7
IT'S OKAY GTR YOU'LL RAPE UNI

My friend does the exact same course you do, he doesn't like it but he doesn't hate it (enough to motivate him to study and xfer anyway).

If you're aiming to xfer, make sure you don't skip too many days. I got into the habit of not going to Uni and ended up fucking up my first year (was doing so well before I discovered SC2 beta), it'll be even easier to fall into that habit in UWS. I hear your exams are pretty easy though.

gtr fighting
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KezseN
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Singapore1450 Posts
January 19 2011 12:16 GMT
#8
GTR where do you live in OZ? you could also try transferring after the 1st year? If your grades are like 70% (distinction) level above.
To Skeleton King: "Have you considered employment at Apple?"
sammler
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United Kingdom381 Posts
January 19 2011 12:44 GMT
#9
Hey GTR. So in Australia, you apply to a university, get in, and then you can choose from a variety of subjects once you're there? That sounds awesome. Over here, you have to pick one degree course (Maths, Politics etc) when you're 16/17 and that's that.
"I wish I was good enough to be called bad by IdrA." - Moa
Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
January 19 2011 12:50 GMT
#10
GL GTR~
https://twitter.com/SufficientStats
FractalsOnFire
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Australia1756 Posts
January 19 2011 14:33 GMT
#11
Ouch man, i live in WA and the entrance scores for university are ridiculously low. A score of 70 would easily net a commerce degree into the 'second' best university here. Even engineering is only some where around 80 - 85 at UWA, so doing asian studies at a uni like curtin (which i'm told is not that bad) you would've been able to get in. Then again the competition here is nothing like over east, i feel like a 99.95'er here would only be like 98 over there though i could be mistaken.

Also from the easterners i know, UWS is kind of a joke to them. Its like the ECU of NSW not that you would get that reference.

But i know if you do well at university, transferring should not be too much of a problem.
sharky246
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
1197 Posts
January 19 2011 14:38 GMT
#12
Oh dude, you could go to Macquarie Uni or UTS with that mark, which are both better than UWS. ANU has rather low cut off marks as well, although i don't know how low.
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type_d
Profile Joined January 2011
Australia20 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-20 02:11:57
January 20 2011 02:10 GMT
#13
On January 19 2011 19:19 GTR wrote:
As I mentioned before in my 30,000 post blog, I (then) had just applied for several universities, looking to further extend my knowledge on the East Asian region and (hopefully) further my learning of Korean and its related culture.

Unfortunately due to me choking in my final exams (stress, nerves etc), I got into the course I least wanted, which was a Bachelor of Arts at UWS (University of Western Sydney). My intent with this is to do a year over there (as I looked at their classes and they seemed pretty interesting and relevant) and then transferring over to a more higher university (UNSW, USYD or ANU) with the intent of completing my degree, majoring in Korean (UWS doesn't offer a Korean major).

Either way, I'm going to take the year off, to earn some money (I've got a job lined up at a restaurant at the end of the month, I hope), and to see if I can do anything e-Sports related outside of my city, now that I'm out of school.

Anyway... this might be bleak, but are there any forum goers that go to UWS at the moment? Heard lots of stuff about Western Sydney being dodgy, but that's about it.


Do you know which campus you're going to? (Edit: I live about 15 mins away from one of the UWS campuses [or campusi?])

While I go to UTS, I do know quite a few people who go to UWS since I live in Western Sydney. Its probably not as bad as people say it is. I don't think there's anything wrong with the university itself (I hear the same complaints about lecturers/tutors/subjects that I hear from other unis), but I think the main difference is the people there.
[TA]eccentric
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Australia55 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-20 02:29:33
January 20 2011 02:29 GMT
#14
I'm going to Parra UWS with BSc/BArts lol.

Been getting pissed all morning because of glitches and shit.
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51417 Posts
January 20 2011 03:27 GMT
#15
i'll be going to the bankstown campus.
i haven't started on all of the acceptance crap yet, any idea when these offers expire?
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[TA]eccentric
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Australia55 Posts
January 20 2011 03:47 GMT
#16
My SRC co-ordinator at school told me to accept all offers because you cal always reject them later on.

I'm not sure when they expire though. Open offers here and accept it. Most probably on this website.
LosingID8
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
CA10826 Posts
January 20 2011 03:52 GMT
#17
can you elaborate on how the australian system works for university applications?

and what is ATAR and how does it compare to the SAT? if it is comparable, what SAT score would your score be equivalent to?
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GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51417 Posts
January 20 2011 03:55 GMT
#18
Looks like offers expire on the 2nd of February, so I won't rush into this I guess.
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KezseN
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Singapore1450 Posts
January 20 2011 03:57 GMT
#19
I know that offers from Melbourne University ends theirs on the 31st of January.
To Skeleton King: "Have you considered employment at Apple?"
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51417 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-20 04:13:45
January 20 2011 04:06 GMT
#20
On January 20 2011 12:52 LosingID8 wrote:
can you elaborate on how the australian system works for university applications?

and what is ATAR and how does it compare to the SAT? if it is comparable, what SAT score would your score be equivalent to?


hm, i might sound stupid so try and bare with me.

when you enter grade 11, you have to do english (compulsory) and ten other 'units' (english is two units, most courses are two units, while stuff like extension english, extension mathematics are one). two unit courses are like the ap courses you have in america i guess, where you can do stuff like histories, legal studies, economics etc.

at the start of grade 12 you can drop down to ten units, but its optional. i did it because i didn't like the direction physics was going. this is where marks matter. half of what determines your atar comes from assessments throughout the year, the other half from an external examination at the end of the course.

edit: i am aware this applies differently for every state, but this is for nsw.

i think there are way too many variables to do a direct atar -> sat conversion.

edit 2: sorry forgot to talk about how the uni applications work.

basically you can choose whatever course/university you want into. it uses a preference system where your highest preference is the one you get first offered. however all courses have a minimum atar to be considered an offer for. unfortunately the courses i wanted were in the 80-85's and since i fucked up in my exams i had to go to my last preference which was pretty much plan b.
it's all done through a third party, so none of the fancy application to university stuff with essays like you guys have in america.
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