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Your pathway to uni
What is it?
UNSW Gateway is an admission pathway for students in Years 11 & 12 attending Gateway schools. It significantly adjusts the ATAR requirements for your preferred UNSW degree and provides you with an early conditional offer to UNSW.
Applications for Year 12 students are closed for 2021 admission.
Applications for Year 11 students open 21 September 2020.
Getting an Early Conditional Offer
Participating in the UNSW Gateway Program is the best way to maximise your likelihood of receiving an early conditional offer.
Check if you’re eligible
If you attend a Gateway school, you can apply for UNSW Gateway, with priority given to students who are identified by UAC as eligible for SEIFA consideration.
To find out if you attend a UNSW Gateway school, use the school finder below.
For further information on SEIFA, please visit https://www.uac.edu.au/assets/documents/eas/eas-socio-economic-indexes-for-areas-seifa.pdf.
- Pick the degree you want to study
Use our Degree Finder to help you. You need the UAC Course code and name of your preferred UNSW degree.
UAC Course codes for each UNSW degree can be found in our Degree Finder.
- Gather your supporting documents
- A copy of your most recent official school report showing that you are completing an ATAR eligible pattern of study.
- One marked English assessment task, that is a long form piece of writing (e.g. an English essay) demonstrating a high level of literacy, academic writing and creative thinking. Please make sure your work is easily legible (preferably typed) and includes marking guidelines/teacher feedback.
- If you are applying for a degree within the Faculties of Built Environment, Engineering or Art and Design, you must attach a visual portfolio that provides evidence of your creative and/or design skills, including up to 5 scanned images in PDF format.
- A personal statement answering the following three questions:
- Why are you interested in the course you are applying for? Tell us how this degree relates to your passions and goals.
- What are your learning strengths? How have you applied them to overcome challenges in school or other aspects of your life?
- Thinking about your future self at university. What do you identify as the key challenges for you and how do you plan to manage these?
- Apply
Applications for Year 12s are now closed.
Applications for Year 11 students open 21 September 2020.
- Submit your application
For Year 12 students: Applications for 2021 admission are now closed.For Year 11 students: Applications close 9 October 2020, 11.59pm AEST.
- An early conditional offer to UNSW that considers other factors as well as your ATAR
- Priority for UNSW Equity scholarships which may include awards of $5,000 or $10,000 per year for the duration of the degree, or accommodation scholarships valued at $24,000 per year (subject to availability)
An equity scholarship may assist you if you are experiencing financial or other educational disadvantage. Scholarships can help you reach your academic potential.
All High School Leaver and Future Student scholarships will be advertised on the Scholarships website each July.
NB. A separate scholarships application is not required. You simply register your interest in being considered for an Equity Scholarship when you complete your UAC Application. For more information go to uac.edu.au/current-applicants/equity-scholarships and scholarships.unsw.edu.au/unsw-equity-scholarships.
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Applications open for Year 12 students
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Applications close for Year 12 students
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Year 12 student’s applications assessment process begins
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Early conditional offers for Year 12 students are released
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Applications open for Year 11 students
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Applications close for Year 11 students
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Year 11 student’s applications assessment process begins
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Early conditional offers for Year 11 students are released
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Firm offers to UNSW are made for Year 12 students
Applications are open now and there are some important extra deadlines you need to be aware of. You can find out more at:
Early Conditional Offer - FAQs
UNSW is committed to student equity and we want to ensure that as many young people as possible are able to access higher education. We understand that the ATAR alone is not the only measure of academic potential and that schools can experience different levels of educational advantage.
For UNSW Gateway, we have considered the level of disadvantage associated with where schools are located in terms of geography and socio-economic status and we are prioritising places for students who attend a Gateway school and who are also identified by UAC as eligible for SEIFA consideration.
You can apply for all Undergraduate courses at UNSW Sydney, excluding:
- UNSW Prep Program (17-21)
- BMedMD (see Gateway Medicine Entry Scheme for more information)
- Co-Op Programs
- B Aviation (Flying)
- B Vision Science/M Clinical Optometry
- Courses at UNSW Canberra
- B Music programs are available to Year 12 applicants only (due to audition requirement)
You are required to submit a marked English assessment task, that demonstrates your skills in writing an extended response, skills in critical and creative thinking, and a high level of literacy.
If you are applying for an early conditional offer to a degree in Art & Design, Built Environment or Engineering, you are also required to submit a portfolio of visual/design work that you have completed either as part of your studies, or outside of school.
Applications for current Year 11 students for entry to UNSW in 2022 open 21 September 2020 and close 9 October 2020.
If you are in Year 11 and completing three (3) of your HSC subjects this year, under the model known as ‘Compressed Curriculum’, you must wait until Year 12 to apply for a Gateway early conditional offer.
Year 12 applications for entry to UNSW in 2021 are now closed, and open again in July 2021.
Year 12
You will be notified on the outcome of your application in early September via email. Firm offers to your preferred UNSW degree will be released in UAC’s December Round 2 on Monday December 23.
Year 11
You will be notified of the outcome of your application in late November 2020. You will know if you have successfully converted your conditional offer to a firm offer when you receive your ATAR in December 2021.
Year 12
Inyour application for UNSW Gateway you will have the opportunity to list THREE (3) courses that you are interested in studying at UNSW. If you are successful in your application, you will receive ONE conditional offer based on the panel’s assessment of your academic capabilities.
Year 11
You must select ONE (1) UNSW degree for their Early Conditional Offer application. If you are unsuccessful or change your mind, you can reapply in Year 12.
UNSW Gateway considers a range of factors that contribute to your success at university. Gateway is separate to UAC’s Educational Access Scheme (EAS). For further information EAS, please click here.
All applications for UNSW Gateway will be reviewed and evaluated by an assessment panel of senior staff at UNSW representing the 8 UNSW faculties and including the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Equity Diversity and Inclusion and Access & Equity (Students).
Applications are assessed against a clear and consistent set of criteria and the number of offers and the conditions of offer are determined by the assessment panel.
Don’t sweat. There other admission pathways to UNSW:
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Apply again
Year 11 students who don’t receive an early conditional offer are invited to reapply in July of Year 12. If you are in Year 11 and studying 3 HSC subjects in a compressed curriculum model, you must wait until Year 12 to apply.
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UNSW Prep Program
UNSW Prep is a one-year (18 months for Engineering) pathway to a UNSW degree place. You study subjects that allow you to develop your academic skills, including maths skills if needed, so that you can achieve your best results. You also study degree level courses from week one, to give you a realistic introduction to university level study. If you do well in these courses, you can earn course credit towards your degree.
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Portfolio Entry to Art & Design or Built Environment Degrees
More information about these admission pathways can be found at:
https://artdesign.unsw.edu.au/future-students/portfolio-entry
https://www.be.unsw.edu.au/students/future-students/be-portfolio-entry -
Faculty of Engineering Admission Scheme (FEAS)
FEAS offers an adjusted ATAR pathway to Engineering degrees, on submission of an application, including submitting a short video.
- Bachelor of Information Systems Admission Scheme (BISAS)
BISAS offers an adjusted ATAR pathway to the Bachelor of Information Systems degree, on submission of an application, including submitting a short video. This degree is offered by the UNSW Business School. - Indigenous Admission Scheme
Administered by the Nura Gili Centre for Indigenous Programs, the Indigenous Admission Scheme provides an alternative pathway for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people into UNSW undergraduate degree programs, and includes all Nura Gili Indigenous Preparatory Programs for Medicine, Law, Education, Science & Engineering and Social Work.
Yes. If you successfully achieve the conditions of your Gateway offer, the firm offer you receive from UAC in December can be deferred.
To find out if you attend a UNSW Gateway school, please use the school search here.
Applications for Gateway Spring Program are open now.
Gateway early conditional offer open 21 September.
If you want more information about the Gateway early conditional offer program, please email us: unswgateway@unsw.edu.au.
Your digital portfolio submission should be a summary of your best creative or design output and provide evidence of your skills. You can include material such as photography, design work, sculpture and multimedia pieces. File size is limited to 100mb.
Make sure you craft your portfolio to make it appealing and engaging. We encourage risk and originality of thinking and making.
We aren’t only interested in your final design or products, so include some process work, technical drawings, patterns or design drafts. We love inquisitive minds, originality, and craftspersonship.
There are a range of portfolio options you could choose for your application. Have you completed a portfolio assessment task for an Art/Design/Engineering related course at school? If so, think about submitting something along the lines of the following:
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6 images with captions or short statements of approx. 50 words each. (PDF Format)
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Multimedia and include short 200-word description of the piece. It might be a YouTube/Vimeo link to a short piece of work or showreel OR a personal website (eg. Tumblr blog) with a mix of multimedia work)
UNSW Gateway – am I eligible?
UNSW Gateway program is a different way into university, that recognises that there is so much more to you, than just your ATAR.