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Important Information for Year 12 Students and Parents/Carers - UAC Applications Open 2 April

The Universities Admissions Centre (UAC) will open its application portal on Tuesday 2 April 2025 for Year 12 students applying for university in 2026.

To help students apply smoothly, here’s a simple step-by-step guide:

Steps to Apply via UAC:

Register your details
- Use a personal email (not your school one). This should be the same email address you have registered with NESA Students Online.
- Create a password and validate your registration through the email UAC sends you.
Log in and start your application
- Enter your citizenship details.
- Select that you're completing Year 12 in 2025.
Enter your Student Number and UAC PIN
- Your UAC PIN will be emailed to the address you registered with NESA on 2 April.
Check and confirm your personal details
- Your full legal name (must match your official ID).
- Your personal email address.
- Your Unique Student Identifier (USI) (needed to enrol in courses and access HECS-HELP or FEE-HELP).
Enter details of your previous and current studies.
Choose up to five course preferences
- You can change your preferences later, up until offer round deadlines. Note that some courses may not be available to select at this stage.
- You can change your preferences at any time and as many times as you like.
Accept the applicant declaration.
Pay the application fee
- Pay via credit card, PayPal, or BPAY. The fee is $80.
- Your application is not complete until the fee is paid.

Students who live in low socio-economic areas may be eligible to receive equity adjustment points through UAC to help improve their selection rank for university entry.

UAC will notify eligible students by email once applications are open.
- If your child receives this email, please ask them to forward it to me.
- This eligibility may also unlock additional benefits at other universities.

Joanne Cupac

Head of Careers