{"id":112029,"date":"2019-10-29T12:08:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T04:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/study\/?page_id=112029"},"modified":"2025-09-22T11:50:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T03:50:44","slug":"atar-profile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/study\/undergraduate\/atar-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"ATAR breakdown by course"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This data will help you gauge whether you\u2019re likely to receive an offer to study your preferred course prior to applying. It\u2019s taken from the most recent student intake.<br><br>If you don\u2019t think you\u2019ll get an ATAR high enough for a course that has previously required a very high ATAR or selection rank, consider choosing a back-up course with an ATAR closer to what you expect to achieve, or look at our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/study\/applying\/pathways\/\">pathways<\/a>.<br><br>Once ATARs are released in December, you\u2019ll have a couple of days to finalise your preferences for the first round of offers, so you\u2019ll have an even better idea then of what you\u2019re likely to get into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Common questions<\/h2>\n\n\n<mimas-block \n        block-name=\"accordion\"\n        role=\"complementary\"\n        aria-label=\"Accordion content\"\n        data-segment=\"all\">\n\n                \n\n                    <div class=\"accordion\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-title-What\u2019s-an-ATAR?\">\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion__heading\" aria-controls=\"What\u2019s-an-ATAR?\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n            <div class=\"title\" id=\"accordion-title-What\u2019s-an-ATAR?\">What\u2019s an ATAR?<\/div>\n            <div class=\"icon\"><\/div>\n        <\/button>\n        <div class=\"accordion__content\" id=\"What\u2019s-an-ATAR?\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n                    <p>The Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) is your standing relative to your peers who graduated high school in the same year. The ATAR is calculated according to rules established in each state.<\/p>\n\n        \n                            \n                    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n                    <div class=\"accordion\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-title-What\u2019s-an-adjustment-factor?\">\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion__heading\" aria-controls=\"What\u2019s-an-adjustment-factor?\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n            <div class=\"title\" id=\"accordion-title-What\u2019s-an-adjustment-factor?\">What\u2019s an adjustment factor?<\/div>\n            <div class=\"icon\"><\/div>\n        <\/button>\n        <div class=\"accordion__content\" id=\"What\u2019s-an-adjustment-factor?\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n                    <p>Universities can award additional ATAR bonus points to students from particular backgrounds. For example, applicants to Curtin who have faced hardship may be eligible for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/study\/applying\/pathways\/stepup-to-curtin\/\">StepUp to Curtin<\/a>, which awards bonus ATAR points. These bonuses are called &#8216;adjustment factors&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n        \n                            \n                    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n                    <div class=\"accordion\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-title-What\u2019s-a-selection-rank?\">\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion__heading\" aria-controls=\"What\u2019s-a-selection-rank?\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n            <div class=\"title\" id=\"accordion-title-What\u2019s-a-selection-rank?\">What\u2019s a selection rank?<\/div>\n            <div class=\"icon\"><\/div>\n        <\/button>\n        <div class=\"accordion__content\" id=\"What\u2019s-a-selection-rank?\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n                    <p>After adjustment factors are applied, the resulting number is called a selection rank. Because different universities can apply different adjustment factors, you may have a different selection rank when applying to another uni. For students who don\u2019t receive any adjustment factors, their ATAR is their selection rank.<\/p>\n\n        \n                            \n                    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n        \n<\/mimas-block>\n\n<mimas-block \n        block-name=\"styled-heading\"\n        data-variant=\"default\"\n        role=\"complementary\"\n        aria-labelledby=\"ATAR and selection rank profiles\"\n        data-segment=\"all\">\n\n        \n<div class=\"block-heading\"\n     data-segment=\"dom\"\n     data-style=\"\"\n     data-align=\"default\"\n>\n\n                                <h2 class=\"block-heading__title \" id=\"atar-and-selection-rank-profiles\">ATAR and selection rank profiles<\/h2>\n            \n                        \n                                <div class=\"block-heading__content\"><p>For those offered places wholly or partly on the basis of ATAR in the most recent intake period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n            \n            \n                <\/div>\n\n<\/mimas-block>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This data will help you gauge whether you\u2019re likely to receive an offer to study [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":122292,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-student-profile-listing.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112029","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112029"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178397,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112029\/revisions\/178397"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}