Domestic fee paying Vs. Commonwealth fee paying. (1 Viewer)

[jazzmuzik]

As a HSC newbie i didnt really know much about the other options available for getting into UNI courses, in particular about the "domestic fee paying" places at university, where you can pay a higher price to get into a UNI course even if you didnt meet the cut off...

The majority of uni students pay HECS and the government pays for the rest. aka. "Commonwealth fee paying". But if you do not meet the UAI cut off, you can pay the entire cost it takes to educate you as a student. aka "domestic fee paying" and you enter the course... (is this basically right?)

Just interested to know what the general opinions on this issue is...
Is it Fair? Unfair? Advantages? Disadvantages?

 

[Captain Gh3y]

No, it's not. People who say that DFEE is paying your way into uni when you didn't meet the cutoff are poorly informed.
Most people tend to think cutoffs mean "how smart u have to be to get in" when it's really just supply and demand, you know like the price of bananas.
They have x spots for CSP and y spots for DFEE, and since most people don't like giving away money there tends to be more demand for CSP so the cutoffs are higher.

So having established that, saying that DFEE is dumb people paying their way into uni is as ridiculous as saying the existence of low cutoff courses at various unis is dumb people also unfairly getting into uni.

If you're absolutely certain you want to do a particular course DFEE is good to have as a second preference if your UAI/equivalent doesn't appear to be high enough. From a practical perspective for students that's pretty much all there is to it.