COMBINED LAW QUESTION (1 Viewer)

[Politic]

Assuming the ATAR for combined law at MQ for 2012 stays around 95-96 as it has in the past, what do you think the lowest possible ATAR accepted under the cut-off would be? Based on the past... 94? 92?

 

[AsyLum]

No one can tell you, the cut offs are sorted based purely on supply and demand. They have a quota of spots, say 200, and the 200th person taken in is the ATAR cut off. Having said that, there have been stories of places artificially inflating cut offs (for prestige/to fool hsc students who think that an ATAR is everything and is a measure of the course's difficulty) so they have in the past taken people below it (sometimes up to 10-20), it just depends.

 

[Atlas]

No one can tell you, the cut offs are sorted based purely on supply and demand. They have a quota of spots, say 200, and the 200th person taken in is the ATAR cut off.

+1 Unless someone has access to the list of those who have applied for the course and the ATARs of those people, no one can tell you what the cut-off will be.

Just make sure that you have the desired course as your first preference even if you don't have the shown ATAR (from last year) and then make sure you have back up preferences and other pathways. After that, just relax as best you can, since it is completely beyond your control.