Any Aspies &/or other ASDs from Australia who go to Uni?

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Some universities have bridging courses - that is a course you do that helps prepare you for uni work. The university I want to go to (Murdoch) had one and I completed it this semester. Now I am waiting to see if I get in so I can study psychology.

I saw an example of the STAT and knew that there was no way I could have gotten a good score, it just looked too difficult.

Check out some websites of universities where you live, see if they have alternative entry or something like that. More and more unis are doing it now to give people who normally wouldn't be able to go to uni a chance.

Hope this helps.

The student services people are nice, they were the ones who told me I almost certainly have an ASD

If your UAI is too low for the uni you want to get into, you can also:
- shop around for other unis, if you do really well you can consider applying to transfer course/uni
- you can go to TAFE etc and study a few year 12 subjects to improve your score, and apply again

Also if you intend to start uni next year, try to be proactive about it now. Call up or email or visit in person the uni that you wish to go to for possible pathways (from my friends' experiences, email is actually a very viable option if you dislike the phone)

There also might be information on that HSC forum www.boredofstudies.org if you go hunting around on it (I used to go there before us VCE-ers made our own site )



I personally didn't have trouble getting in, easily got into my first preference


Edit: Also in victoria, the company that deals with our uni applications and dishes out places has something called SEAS - Special entry access scheme, where you can apply under about 9 different categories for a number of things (financial difficulties, home difficulties, illness, basically everything that would have affected your ability to study in the long term). Maybe in NSW you have something similar?

I've just finished my degree at Newcastle Uni a couple of weeks ago and would encourage you to apply for the courses you're interested in. Being 5UAI points off the mark is not a lot, and you would still have an extremely good chance of getting into the program of your choice. When I first started my degree the uni was having a lot of trouble filling places and some people got into my degree despite being 15 - 20UAI points below the cut off. So don't feel like you don't have a chance because 5UAI points is not a lot really, and both UAC and the universities are aware of this. Good luck!