Assessing your ASA Early Entry application
Assessing your application
When assessing your Admission, Scholarship and Accommodation (ASA) Early Entry application, we consider whether you meet the minimum admission requirements, including:
- academic requirements;
- English language requirements; and
- any applicable program-specific requirements, such as subject prerequisites or a supplementary form.
Calculating your entrance rank
Which selection rank do we use? | Offer round |
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Your ASA Year 11 Rank. This rank is calculated using your performance in Year 11, your school's average ATAR performance in previous years, and any applicable adjustment factors. Your ANU Selection rank is a measure of your suitability for our programs; it may differ from ATAR-predications provided by your school. We do not use, or calculate your predicted ATAR. To successfully calculate your ASA Year 11 Rank we need to receive your results in a certain format. While most schools in Australia will already use this format, some do not. Please download the ANU Year 11 Results and Year 12 Subject Form. If your results are not provided in one of the accepted formats, please ask your school to convert your grades using one of the grading formats listed on the ANU Form. Once completed, please upload the form together with your school reports to your application. | Early round offers are made using your ASA Year 11 Rank only. Offers are conditional on successfully completing either:
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Your ASA Selection Rank This rank is the best of your ASA Year 11 Rank or ATAR, and any applicable adjustments. | Final round offers are made using your ASA Selection Rank. |
Program prerequisites
Some ANU programs have subject prerequisites. This means you must have studied certain Year 11 or Year 12 subjects to be eligible for an offer.
Prerequisites help ensure you have the foundational knowledge you need to succeed in your chosen program.
You can check the prerequisites for your preferred program on ANU Programs and Courses.
ANU follows the state and territory subject equivalencies used by UAC. You can find equivalent subjects for your qualification on the UAC Year 12 qualifications page.
How do we assess prerequisites?
How we assess your prerequisite depends on the subject and program you're applying for.
Chemistry
For programs with a Chemistry prerequisite, you must have successfully completed the required Chemistry subject in Year 11 to be eligible for an early offer.
Mathematics
For programs with a Mathematics prerequisite, you must be enrolled in the required Year 12 Mathematics subject for your chosen program to be eligible for an early offer.
Flexible Double Degrees in Engineering or Advanced Computing
To be eligible for an early offer to a Flexible Double Degree in Engineering or Advanced Computing, you must:
- meet the minimum selection rank; and
- be enrolled in at least Mathematics Advanced in NSW, or an equivalent interstate subject, in Year 12.
Individual programs within the Flexible Double Degree may have higher prerequisite and selection rank requirements.
We'll reassess your prerequisites once your final Year 12 results are available. When selecting the programs that will form your Flexible Double Degree, you'll only be able to choose programs for which you meet the relevant prerequisites and selection rank requirements.
Providing evidence of your Year 12 subjects
Make sure you provide evidence of your Year 12 enrolment by the document submission deadline.
What if I haven't studied the required subject?
If you haven't studied the prerequisite for your preferred program, consider listing an alternative ANU program that doesn't require the prerequisite.
After commencing at ANU, you may be able to complete the relevant bridging course and your first semester of study, then apply for an internal program transfer to your preferred program, subject to meeting the relevant transfer requirements.
If you're concerned about how a prerequisite may affect your eligibility for an ANU offer, contact the Admissions office.
Additional selection criteria
Some ANU programs have additional selection criteria that are considered alongside your academic results when we assess your eligibility for an offer.
Depending on the program, you may need to provide additional information or complete a supplementary form as part of your application.
Find out which programs have additional selection criteria and what you need to provide.
Changing your preferences
Your preferences aren’t locked in after you receive an early offer. You’ll have another opportunity to review and change your ANU program preferences before your application is reassessed using your final Year 12 results.
Check the ASA Early Entry key dates to find out when you can change your preferences.
How does reassessment work?
Once final Year 12 results are available, we’ll automatically reassess your application using your ASA Selection Rank. This will be the higher of your:
- ASA Year 11 Rank; or
- final ATAR or equivalent IB score,
including any applicable adjustment factors.
We’ll consider your preferences in the order you’ve listed them and make you an offer to your highest eligible preference.
What happens to my early offer?
If you received an early offer, we’ll honour it as long as:
- the program remains your highest eligible preference; and
- you successfully complete an Australian Senior Secondary Certificate of Education with an ATAR, or are awarded the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma.
You can move another program above your early offer if your preferences change. However, if you become eligible for an offer to that higher preference, it will replace your existing ANU offer.
You can only hold one valid ANU offer through ASA Early Entry at a time.
Applying through UAC as well?
If you also submit a University Admissions Centre (UAC) application, your ASA Early Entry application and UAC application are assessed separately.
For your ASA Early Entry application, we will only consider the ANU preferences and documents submitted through your ASA application. Documents uploaded or ANU preferences listed in your UAC application will not be used to assess your ASA Early Entry application.
The Bachelor of Health Science is an exception and may be applied for through both application methods.
Additional Information for applicants
The National Register of higher education providers is an official source where you can confirm your institution of choice is registered to deliver higher education in Australia.
The Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) website allows you to do side-by-side comparisons of Australian universities, so you can find out more about the universities that interest you.
The University reserves the right to alter or discontinue its programs as required.
- Year 11 Results and Year 12 Subject Form (PDF, 1.17 MB)
- Year 12 Subject Enrolment form (PDF, 711.11 KB)
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