If you’ve come across a few hurdles while you’re navigating each step in your application, our responses to frequently asked questions may help.
Have we missed something? Don't hesitate to use the space at the end of this page to send us any new questions.
Information to help you make your way through the application form and apply on time.
Yes. Due to COVID-19, ANU is making conditional offers based on your Year 11 results and will honour these for study in 2023, as long as you complete Year 12 and get an ATAR.
Learn more about domestic admissions for 2023
2 March 2022 — Direct applications open
23 May 2022 — Direct applications close
30 May — Deadline to upload your co-curricular and service requirement (CCS) documentation to your ANU application
5 September 2022 — Offers released
5 October 2022 — Acceptance deadline
1 November 2022 - Change of academic preference period opens
18 December 2022 — Change of academic preference period closes
23 December 2022 — Final offers released
If you experience any technical difficulties while filling out your ANU application, contact our Future Students team for help.
On 5 September, ANU will send you an email letting you know the outcome of your application. If it has been successful, the email will include an early offer that covers admission, campus accommodation and scholarships for study in 2023. All you will need to do in this case is complete Year 12, get an ATAR and confirm acceptance of your final offer on 23 December, when we ask you to.
If you don't receive an offer based on your Year 11 results, you may be added to the waiting list for the December offer round, during which time ANU will assess your application again based on your Year 12 results.
No, that’s what great about applying to ANU now! You won’t need to wait to apply through UAC. Applying directly is also free and covers admission, a room in campus accommodation and 200-plus scholarships and could see you receive an offer as early as 5 September.
Learn how adjustment factors can affect your selection rank.
Adjustment factors are extra points that, when added to your ATAR, will boost your selection rank (the score you need to get into your degree).
The maximum adjustments you can ask for is 15. This number can be made up of:
• 10 equity adjustments
• 5 Elite Athlete adjustments
• 5 subject or performance adjustments (AMEB Grade 8).
Calculate your adjustment factors
You can apply for adjustment factors in your ANU application. You can also apply for new adjustment factors at any time, by logging back into your application. Also, if you don’t have the documents you’ll need to support your adjustment factors now you can upload them later.
Once you’re logged into your ANU application, you can apply for adjustment factors by:
1. clicking on 'Adjustment factors'
2. reading the criteria of each adjustment factor category and answering the relevant questions to find out if you’re eligible
3. if you are eligible, downloading the cover letter that contains the information on the type of documentation you'll need to supply as evidence
4. uploading these documents along with the cover letter by 23 May 2022.
Learn more about how to express interest in scholarships.
Applying for a scholarship through the direct application process couldn’t be simpler. On your application form, you can choose for us to assess you for ‘Only scholarships with automatic consideration’, in which case you won’t need to provide any further information, or ‘All eligible scholarships’.
If you choose ‘All eligible scholarships’, you will need to answer these four short questions:
You will also need to provide the contact details of at least one referee.
Note: If you wait and apply to ANU through UAC later in the year, you will have to apply for any automatically assessed scholarships separately.
Learn about campus accommodation, including how to tell us your preference and the benefits of living on-campus.
Yes, in fact it guarantees you a room in a student residence on the ANU campus!
The application form will prompt you to tell us if you’d like to live on campus and which one of our student residences you’d prefer to live in. We’ll do our best to give you your first preference.
Choose to live on campus in one of our catered or self-catered student residences and you’ll find yourself at the heart of our inclusive and talented community, with Canberra’s city centre, your classes, libraries, gyms, medical centre and more right on your doorstep.
