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Early Admission FAQs

Congratulations to everyone who received a UOW Early Admission offer!

Outcomes have been emailed to all applicants, who can also view their outcome/s by logging in to the .

If you’ve received an offer, your place at UOW is waiting for you, there’s nothing more you need to do right now except complete all the requirements of Year 12 and get ready to join us. You’ll hear from us closer to enrolment time with everything you need to get started.

Got questions about your offer, enrolment, or next steps? You’ll find the answers below — or contact us if you can’t find what you’re looking for.

About Early Admission

UOW Early Admission is our early offer program for students finishing Year 12 in 2026 (HSC or other Australian equivalents).

Instead of relying solely on your final year 12 results, we consider your Year 11 performance as well as your skills, and experiences; giving you the chance to secure a place in the right degree at UOW before your final exams even begin.

We will communicate with you via email to make sure you know what you need to do and when.

We will need to contact you after you leave school and into 2027, so please use a personal email address (not your school-allocated email address) that you check regularly.

All applicants will receive their outcome from UOW on Thursday 17 September 2026.

Please take the time to familiarise yourself with our list of important dates for UOW Early Admission and other HSC related dates. &²Ô²ú²õ±è;

If you receive an offer via Early Admission, you will not be required to accept it immediately. There will be a place for you in that course, and we will be in touch when it’s time to start your enrolment.   

Applicants who apply for two courses through UOW Early Admission will receive separate emails detailing the outcomes for each course preference.

Please note that Early Admission offers are conditional upon the successful completion of your HSC (or equivalent). Continue studying hard and do your best in your final assessments.

No. An Early Admission application to is separate to, and as well as a UAC application. 

If you submit your UOW Early Admission application by Sunday, 9 August 2026, you won’t need to reapply through the main round UAC process. 

You can apply for up to two UOW courses through Early Admission. If you're interested in more than two, you can also apply via the to include up to five additional courses. UAC applications for 2026 are open now, and Early Bird applications close in September. Check for more information.

Early Admission applicants received their outcome from UOW on Thursday 17 September 2026.

  • If you applied for two UOW degrees via Early Admission, you will have received a separate outcome email for each course you applied for.
  • If you are successful, you will not need to apply for that course through UAC. An Early Admission offer from UOW is an official offer to that course.
  • If you received an Early Admission offer, you will not need to accept the offer immediately. There will be a place for you in the course/s that you are offered, and we will be in touch when it’s time to start your enrolment. 
  • If you applied for Early Admission to two UOW courses, you may have received an offer to both. You will need to choose which one you ultimately want to study when it's time to enrol in December.
  • If you're not successful in receiving an Early Admission offer, you may be considered for a  offer, providing another pathway into your preferred UOW bachelor degree.

At the , there is a 'Forgotten Password' prompt, and a 'Forgotten username' prompt. Use these links to reset your credentials.

If this does not help, you will need to . You will need to verify your identity, so have your student number, UAC PIN and other details with you.

All outcomes have been sent to all applicants.

They have been emailed to the email address applicants used in their Early Admission application. Be sure to check your junk, or 'other' folder/s for emails from the University of °µÍø½ûÇø. If you can't find the outcome emails, who send these emails on our behalf.

You can also view your outcomes by logging in to the . 

The outcomes are sent by UAC on our behalf, so we are unable to resend them to you, but:

  • To see your outcome/s, . Here, you will see your outcome/s.
  • , let them know your UAC number and your Early Admission application number, and ask them to resend your outcome email/s.

If you have not received an email from UOW with the outcome/s of your Early Admission application by 6pm on Thursday 17 September, the best place to start is by checking the .

If you are still unable to locate your outcome in the portal, or in your inbox, please to verify that we have the correct email address for your application.   

Please have your Early Admission application number on hand to help the team easily locate your application details. &²Ô²ú²õ±è;

Yes.  

Your Early Admission offer is conditional upon successfully completing your HSC / International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma (or equivalent). Keep working hard during your final assessment and exams.

Offers are not conditional on your ATAR or final mark/grade/rank. 

Yes, you can defer your place at UOW for up to one year.

Deferring a course means that you accept the offer of a place, but that you don't plan on starting straight away.     

You will need a UOW Student Number before you can request to defer. Your Student Number will be sent to you in the weeks after your Early Admission offer. More details on how to defer your offer are available on the UOW Get Started page. &²Ô²ú²õ±è;

You cannot defer scholarship or accommodation offers. If you are planning to take a year off before commencing study with UOW, you will need to apply for scholarships and accommodation in the year before you commence study i.e. if you defer your offer until 2028, you will apply for scholarships and accommodation in the latter half of next year. 

No.  

This scholarship has been launched to assist students from high schools in key regional locations to study at UOW in 2027.  

This scholarship cannot be deferred.

Yes! Many UOW scholarship applications are open until early December.

You can read more about the range of scholarships on offer, how to apply, and any important dates on the Future Student Scholarship page.

Other questions

UOW’s Student Privacy & Disclosure statement states that information about a student’s application cannot be disclosed to a third party without written and signed consent from the student. 

As part of the Early Admission application, applicants (Year 12 students) will be able to enter the details of a person who they authorise to act on their behalf. If they choose to name someone, that person – and that person only – can also be provided with information about the student's application. 

If you are a parent or guardian seeking information regarding a student's application and you are not listed as an authorised person on their Early Admission application, you will need to ensure a is completed before we can respond. When completed, the consent form may be sent via email to futurestudents@uow.edu.au. &²Ô²ú²õ±è;

This consent to release form covers students when they are applying for UOW. Once they are enroled, they are considered a current student, and a new updated consent form will be required.  

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