GPA required for UNSW law (1 Viewer)

[Bobbo1]

My ATAR was 99.05 and I hope to transfer into law from UNSW Commerce. So what marks would i need to be getting and how much work do I need to put in compared to the HSC?

 

[Shadowdude]

My ATAR was 99.05 and I hope to transfer into law from UNSW Commerce. So what marks would i need to be getting and how much work do I need to put in compared to the HSC?

We use WAM at UNSW, and it's the average of your marks. So if you got 90, 85, 80 and 75 as your marks for your four subjects, your WAM is 82.50.

According to the website: https://my.unsw.edu.au/student/academiclife/program_transfer/program_trans_Law.html

You have to complete a full year of uni first with no fails, and then be assessed on WAM. So... very high marks, and about the same amount of work as you did for your HSC should mean you're good.

 

[Bobbo1]

ok ty, hopefully i can sneak one of those 100 places

 

[mitchy_boy]

It'll be at least a distinction average (I.e. 75 or above).

Aim for 85, and you should be sweet.

 

[hungwell1337]

well, you need 70 wam to transfer, theres no fixed places, everyone who meets the transfer requirements will get it

 

[b00m]

with an atar of 99 it'd probably be a 70 wam like hungwell said

although ive heard sometimes that that may not be enough?

 

[acehscwebsite]

so does it meant if someone gets a perfect WAM it equals 99.95?
btw i think D should get u through.
i find uni easier than the hsc, but that's probs bcs i have so much free time compared to the hsc good luck

 

[hungwell1337]

no

99.95 atar is probably as difficult as a 90 wam

 

[acehscwebsite]

How hard is it to maintain a 90 wam?

 

[b00m]

probably bloody bloody hard

 

[Aerath]

Quite difficult, one would think.

 

[Omnipotence]

90 WAM in Law is impossible, I would think.

 

[Bobbo1]

well, you need 70 wam to transfer, theres no fixed places, everyone who meets the transfer requirements will get it

So it's not strictly 100 and they take any amount of people that meet this requirement?

 

[hungwell1337]

So it's not strictly 100 and they take any amount of people that meet this requirement?

yes

 

[Aerath]

90 WAM in Law is impossible, I would think.

Yeah, it is impossible.

 

[alstah]

My friend got a 2010 ATAR of 99.20. He did Commerce at UNSW and had a WAM of 74 and got offered an internal transfer into Combined Law for 2012.

 

[study-freak]

no

99.95 atar is probably as difficult as a 90 wam

depends on subjects.
99.95 ATAR>>90WAM if you do adv maths at usyd, i would think.

 

[deterministic]

depends on subjects.
99.95 ATAR>>90WAM if you do adv maths at usyd, i would think.

+1 and at unsw as well

 

[Bobbo1]

My friend got a 2010 ATAR of 99.20. He did Commerce at UNSW and had a WAM of 74 and got offered an internal transfer into Combined Law for 2012.

hmm ok, so compared to the HSC how much work is required to achieve this?

 

[Omnipotence]

74 WAM in Commerce is very much achievable.