QUOTE(DeathSpiritz @ Sep 17 2011, 12:22 PM)
is it difficult to get an offer from ANU? i have made their requirements and submitted my application through idp. lol will i get an acknowledgement letter first? haha
It's pretty damn easy. The application itself should be acknowledged via email, and an offer should follow.
Remind me what your results were again, and tell us what you applied for.
QUOTE(Huskies @ Sep 17 2011, 02:21 PM)
Generally speaking, it's not difficult to get an offer from any Australian university, even the Go8 ones. The exception, of course, applies to government-capped courses such as medicine and dentistry.
Despite the elite status that Go8 universities like to associate themselves with, they are actually pretty lax in terms of entry requirements, especially for international students (certainly nowhere near the level of Ivies and Oxbridge). And the Australian government is about to uncap the number of students that a university can enrol (which may start as early as 2012) i.e. universities can enrol as many students as they want/like and still receive funding per head for each student enrolled (however med/dent numbers are still capped). This has raised serious questions about the decline in quality of certain university courses (eg arts/humanities which already have their resources stretched thin), resulting in cost-cutting measures such as reducing the number of tutorials per semester.
I'm not sure how many prospective students are aware of the current development in the Australian higher education sector, the reality is Australian standards have dropped a lot over the past decade (you're paying more each year for an increasingly inferior product/service). Sadly, too many students these days are blinded by the various ranking tables that don't necessarily reflect the teaching and learning qualities of each university...
While it's easy to agree with the entry requirements part, understand that ANU, Melbourne, and the other Australian schools don't compare with the top Ivies (UPenn, Harvard, and then Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell) and Oxbridge and Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Chicago etc, on most levels anyway.
Entry requirements are not a very accurate gauge of how hard it is to enter a university or a particular course at a particular university in many cases. A look at British universities will illustrate this - e.g. Warwick sometimes has requirements equal to those of Cambridge for certain courses, and they would be higher than Oxford's, but still (putting Oxford's unique entrance examinations aside) it is less competitive than Oxford. LSE has quite low requirements in general (only AAA or A*AA or 38 in IB for a handful of courses - the rest being very much lower, compared to A*AA-A*A*A or 38-42 in IB at Cambridge and Warwick in addition to other exams, for certain courses) but is very selective for certain courses.
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