Let's Talk Careers
With Mrs Sharan Tagore
Are Uni Prep programs any good?
Yes. They are good. ECU’s UniPrep, Curtin’s UniReady, Murdoch’s On Track and Notre Dame’s UniPath are non-ATAR entry pathways to uni that many schools offer in partnership with their chosen university.
Students who go to uni from an enabling course do almost as well as those who do ATAR. At university, students who had done an enabling course had an average pass rate of 76%. Recent school leavers who entered uni with an ATAR had an average pass rate of 88%.
If alternative pathways are so good, why do ATAR?
The traditional way from school to uni is via ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank) which is based on results achieved across ATAR subjects in years 11 and 12.
ATAR is the best pathway to uni if you want to go into competitive degrees like medicine, law, engineering or specialist science programs.
Academic scholarships are awarded on ATAR results.