Assessing your direct application

Assessing your application 

When assessing your offer, we consider:

• if you have met the minimum admission requirements, including the co-curricular requirement , academic requirements, and any applicable additional program requirements (such as pre-requisites or portfolios); and,

• your priority status. Entrance to ANU is competitive and meeting the minimum entrance requirements does not guarantee entry

Calculating your entrance rank

We will make you an offer of admission on the basis of your ANU Selection Rank.  

Over the lifetime of your application, you can expect to receive two distinct selection ranks.

Priority admission  

Applications to ANU are open to all students, and we prioritise offers of admission by the following tiers: 

Tier 1: 

• students with Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander status 
• students with refugee status 
• students from low socio-economic status schools (ICSEA <900)
• students who have experienced long-term physical or psychological hardship 
• students in the final round of the Tuckwell Scholarship application process 
• students completing ANU Extension

Tier 2: 

• students whose academic performance places them in the top-2% of their secondary school campus 

Tier 3: 

• All other students 

Here's how it works: 

• Bahaar performs well academically and is of Torres Strait Islander heritage. They apply to ANU and has ANU Selection Rank of 91 and tier 1 status. 
• James is in the top-2% of students in his school. He applies to ANU and has an ANU Selection Rank of 90 and tier 2 status. 
• Sarah is an academically talented student, but doesn't fall in the top 2% of students in her school, nor is she a member of one of the identified priority criteria. She applies to ANU and is has an ANU Selection Rank of 92 and tier 3 status. 

All the students have listed the same program as their first preference, meet the co-curricular or service requirement, and fulfil the academic requirements for their preferred program. 

Under the admissions process, the first place is allocated to Bahaar as they have tier 1 status, the second place is allocated to James in tier 2 and the third place is allocated to Sarah in tier 3. 

Changing preference

If you didn't receive an early offer, or you have changed your preferences, we will automatically reassess your application based on the better of the Year 11 Selection Rank and the Year 12 Selection Rank.

You will be made an offer to your highest eligible preference. If you received an early offer directly from ANU, your early offer will be honoured as long as the early offer program remains as your highest eligible preference and you complete Year 12 with an ATAR (or equivalent) in 2023.

If you change or re-order your preferences, your application will be reassessed in the order of your new preferences. If you are eligible and competitive for a preference which is higher than your early offer preference, your early offer will be replaced with the new offer in December/January and you will no longer be able to confirm your early offer acceptance.

If you have a UAC application as well please do not add an ANU preference (besides Bachelor of Health Science), as we will consider your direct application only, so make sure that you upload documents and change preferences in your direct application only.