WAM requirements to exchange to other universities. (1 Viewer)

[bos120]

What are the WAM requirements to exchange to other universities (international)?

 

[Drifting95]

A list comes up on moodle before applications open. It really depends on the uni, i know NYU had 92 wam. Less popular uni's had 60-70s, can't remember 100%.

 

[bos120]

wtf thats too high...
where about on moodle?

 

[HeyJes]

 

[HeyJes]

 

[HeyJes]

I uploaded it to my Dropbox, hope that helps
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l9rmeamlku1tg24/wam cut offs.pdf?dl=0

Update: This is the latest (2016)version : https://www.dropbox.com/s/obj81x3s0lfuh3h/WAM Cut Off Guide 2015.pdf?dl=0

 

[bos120]

very useful. ty bro

 

[Confound]

Why is NYU req ram higher than Wharton?

 

[obliviousninja]

Demand for NYU is greater

 

[isildurrrr1]

some of the wam requirements just seem way out of proportion to how good that university even is. UBC law isn't even that good and their WAM requirement is over a first class honours. lol top kek.

I just find it weird the WAM requirement for law on exchange is higher than a first class honours... which would get you into oxford BCL.

 

[Amundies]

Woah, that document is a thing for you guys? That's really cool.

 

[flientum]

As someone who's gone through the process:

It's all based on supply/demand; they usually only take 2 each to Wharton and Stern so cut-offs can vary a lot.

For the students going on exchange next sem the cutoff for Wharton was 0.5 higher than that of Stern btw

Good luck!

 

[EpikHigh]

Is your application for applying to exchange solely based on WAM? my wam is just shy off 75, can you do anything else, is there interviews and stuff?????? I wanna go uc berkeley lmao

 

[isildurrrr1]

yeah a 75 won't get you into berkeley. It's a school that's even better than at least half of the ivies.

 

[EpikHigh]

yeah a 75 won't get you into berkeley. It's a school that's even better than at least half of the ivies.

I see a 77 so don't be so negative lol, I'm asking is there anything besides your WAM that counts i.e interview or some sort of coverletter/resumeme

 

[obliviousninja]

Course matching?

 

[flientum]

Nope it's purely WAM

 

[4025808]

Nope it's purely WAM

It's literally shit as, considering that arts and commerce students can easily get high wams and have a higher chance of doing exchange.

GG to us engineering and science students. Only places worth going imo are UBC (Vancouver, Canada), Singapore (in which NUS and NTU are both actually 100x harder than UNSW) and UCT (University of Cape Town).

 

[seanieg89]

It's literally shit as, considering that arts and commerce students can easily get high wams and have a higher chance of doing exchange.

GG to us engineering and science students. Only places worth going imo are UBC (Vancouver, Canada), Singapore (in which NUS and NTU are both actually 100x harder than UNSW) and UCT (University of Cape Town).

Uhh, beg to differ with this sentiment. I don't think it is easier for competent arts/comm students to get a high wam than it is for competent science students (I know less about engineering, but I doubt it is harder to get consistently high marks than it typically is in arts).

It might be easier to wing passes in arts without knowing much (not claiming this is true, just stating it as a possibility), but a strong science student can get an insane ugrad wam (and many do!). There is wayyy more variance in arts grading from my knowledge / experience.

 

[isildurrrr1]

Arts is pretty much curved to only about 3 or 4 people getting HDs in a cohort of 50.

There is no way to score over a 90 in arts.