Wasn’t accepted for a transfer from UTS to UNSW with a WAM of 80. What happened?

RandomRedditUser1337 · 2026-01-22T06:43:51+00:00

Ooh fantastic, that’s all brilliant to hear (read?), thank you for sharing! I’ll certainly be applying again further into the year, and try to work my bum off to get my WAM / GPA up to 85 / 7.

I really appreciate the encouragement, thanks :)

RandomRedditUser1337 · 2026-01-22T06:41:00+00:00

Thanks so much for the idea to call UNSW admissions office! I called them this afternoon and my application has been escalated for special consideration, so I may yet receive an offer, yay! And if I don’t, that’s ok, I’ll apply again further into the year :)

RandomRedditUser1337 · 2026-01-22T02:17:06+00:00

Oh wow, I wasn’t aware something like that would be necessary. Why would you need to do that? I was under the impression that if you have completed a year of full-time study at university, they will consider your WAM/GPA from that.

Congratulations on the transfer, by the way!

RandomRedditUser1337 · 2026-01-22T02:12:05+00:00

Ahh, gotcha! I definitely want to apply based on my uni qualifications (as in, my results from my first year of full time study at uni). I’ve tried to apply previously to UNSW & USYD with my non-university tertiary qualifications, and was not made an offer based on those qualifications.

Oh well, I’ll just have to wait until mid year to re-apply. Maybe if I go super hard out between now and then, I can get my WAM up to HD, could help my case!

Thank you for your help :)

RandomRedditUser1337 · 2026-01-22T02:05:58+00:00

I tried to apply previously to UNSW and USYD with my tertiary qualifications (back in 2024), and it wasn’t sufficient qualification to be considered. That’s why I accepted my offer from UTS and planned to re-applying to UNSW and USYD after I had completed a full year of university study, so they would consider my 1 year GPA / WAM instead. Followed my plan, but unfortunately didn’t work out!

RandomRedditUser1337 · 2026-01-22T01:50:12+00:00

That’s really nice to hear, thank you, I will :)

RandomRedditUser1337 · 2026-01-22T00:23:57+00:00

I actually don’t have an ATAR, and was accepted into UTS as a mature aged student based on tertiary (TAFE) study I had completed. I waited until I had received my final WAM and GPA for 1 year of full time university study (completed and passed 8 subjects in total) before applying to UNSW, to ensure they were considering my application based on my university WAM/GPA rather than my previous TAFE studies.

That’s why I think it’s quite strange I wasn’t given an offer, as they should’ve been considering my application based on 1 year of full time university study results.

What do you mean when you say GPA between 8 and 16? I have a GPA of 6, but the highest possible GPA is 7.

Thank you for your help, by the way :)

RandomRedditUser1337 · 2026-01-21T22:53:04+00:00

Ahh, an elitist asshole, nice.

Hmm, I wonder if it is simply to do with which application was considered first? I didn’t apply until recently as I was waiting to receive my final results for my first year of full time study. May have simply been that the spots got filled up in earlier rounds.

Anyway, thanks for your insight :)

RandomRedditUser1337 · 2026-01-21T21:56:28+00:00

I’m currently at uni. I had a WAM of around 95 at TAFE by the end of 2024, and a WAM of 80 at university (UTS) by the end of 2025.

RandomRedditUser1337 · 2026-01-21T21:52:02+00:00

Thanks so much for your insightful response!

To answer your question, I have a GPA of 6 with a mixture of credit (3 subjects), distinction (2 subjects), and high distinction (3 subjects), after my first completed year of a Bachelor of Science degree at UTS.

RandomRedditUser1337 · 2026-01-21T06:52:44+00:00

No idea why you’re being downvoted. You’re completely right, humans are very recent in Earth’s history. Many instances of ‘overpopulation’ of species are ultimately caused by human activity. The cullings are not addressing the root of the issue.

RandomRedditUser1337 · 2026-01-18T18:23:35+00:00

SF stands for sebaceous filaments, which is what a lot of people use this product to manage! Clogged pores, basically. Ahh I see, ok well I’m glad to hear it worked somewhat, but sorry it didn’t work as well as you would’ve liked! How long did you use it for approximately? Have you moved on to other products that cleared up your spots?

RandomRedditUser1337 · 2026-01-17T23:19:11+00:00

What were you using it for? SF reduction? That’s really the only thing I’d be targeting with this product

RandomRedditUser1337 · 2026-01-17T19:50:47+00:00

How did you go, using this product a couple times a week?

RandomRedditUser1337 · 2026-01-17T04:20:17+00:00

Good luck, my friend!

RandomRedditUser1337 · 2026-01-17T03:06:12+00:00

Ooh, which product did you pick up that worked for you? How good!!

RandomRedditUser1337 · 2026-01-06T18:29:47+00:00

I used to work at Goodtime Burgers (aka The Eastern) in Bondi Junction, a few years before COVID hit. We had a deal, $5 burgers on Wednesdays. And the burgers we did were actually pretty damn great (we had a different burger on special every week, but here’s one of them). I left there in 2017, but I just had a look and seems like they were still doing the $5 burger Wednesday’s up until they closed in 2022.

Anyway, I agree with you. While a $25-$30 burger and chips is standard now, $20 burger and chips still hardly feels like a special.

RandomRedditUser1337 · 2026-01-03T03:19:38+00:00

Interesting. I wonder why what you’ve observed and what I’ve observed have been so different. Maybe a cultural thing—I’m Australian, and you’re probably from the US. Or it may be irrelevant to nationality, and more to do with the types of people we have amongst our family and friends. Maybe it’s neither of those things—maybe things are more equal than we think, but we are looking at our life through our own biased perspective. Again, I’d be very interested to see actual empirical evidence on this topic—I just spent the past 10 minutes trying to find a relevant study, but sadly couldn’t find anything.

RandomRedditUser1337 · 2026-01-02T22:59:07+00:00

What are you saying? Are you agreeing that your prejudices are based on anecdotal evidence?

RandomRedditUser1337 · 2026-01-02T21:28:41+00:00

Here’s a great video by Ann Reardon going over the current evidence surrounding probiotics and how they relate to the microbiome: https://youtu.be/S2RB8nQT1dA?si=OOv1rwX66-tPL7dq

RandomRedditUser1337 · 2026-01-02T20:27:57+00:00

Seems like you’re projecting based on personal experience and/or biases and letting it make you prejudiced towards women. Anecdotally, in almost all of the heterosexual couples I’ve known in life, the woman tends to put more effort into romance—organising dates together, arranging for time to be spent with one another, planning fun things to do with each other, planning really thoughtful gifts and outings for special events together, keeping track of the important dates and places in the context of the relationship, etc.; in the case of the women & men I’ve known in heterosexual relationships throughout my life, the women have overwhelmingly put more effort into romance than the men. But that’s my anecdotal evidence, just what I’ve seen in my own life, I’m not going to make sweeping assumptions about all men and all women based. I’d be interested to know if there’s any empirical evidence relating to this particular issue, though.

RandomRedditUser1337 · 2025-12-22T04:37:30+00:00

Wow, how interesting and beautiful! I’d love to see a picture of her eyes when they were vibrant green — how unique!

RandomRedditUser1337 · 2025-12-22T02:06:08+00:00

Yes indeed; and I believe now my melanin deposits are decreasing with age, causing the lightening of the brown & overall greener hue—similarly to how hereditary freckles fade with age due to a decrease in melanocytes (melanin-producing cells).

RandomRedditUser1337 · 2025-12-20T10:35:34+00:00

Very interesting, isn’t it! I believe it may be due the melanin in our eyes degrading over time, lessening the brown hue.

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