QTAC is a bit different to UAC and VTAC. You can only have one active offer at a time.
Let’s talk about how that works.
QTAC have a lot of offer rounds
If you have a look at the QTAC Key Dates page, you’ll see that QTAC have a lot of offer rounds.
Offer rounds are days on which QTAC release offers for courses to people who’ve applied to study. I’ve written a lot more about offer rounds here: 2021/2022 QTAC Offer Rounds
You can get one (1) offer in each offer round
You can technically get one offer in each offer round, which is great.
But in order to be considered for an offer in a future offer round, you need to respond to the offer you’ve received in the previous offer round with a “conditional” response.
Conditional responses include:
- “conditionally accept”
- “conditionally defer”
- “conditionally reject”
To find out more about conditional responses, you might like to read:
Each time you get an offer, your previous offer disappears
In my Don’t miss an offer: Organise your preference list by offer round date post, I give an example of a Year 12 student hoping for an offer for the UQ Bachelor of Physiotherapy at the beginning of 2021.
This student could actually receive two different offers before the UQ physiotherapy course started offering. That’s because most UQ health courses won’t release offers until the January offer round, but Year 12 students can start receiving QTAC offers in the early offer round (last day of school) and in the December offer round.
Here’s how the student’s preference list would look before the major January offer round, if they had received two offers already:
However, if this student received an offer for the UQ Bachelor of Physiotherapy on 14 January, they would probably outright accept this offer. That’s because they received an offer for the course they want the most. There’s no reason for this student to try to get any other offers after they’ve received their first preference!
The key takeaway?
You need to make sure you only respond to an offer with a conditional response if it’s not the course you want the most. Otherwise, you risk losing an offer for your favourite course by trying to get another offer in a future offer round.
If you need more information about how to navigate QTAC offer rounds, check out the rest of this blog, get in touch with QTAC or consider booking a session with a Careers Counsellor.
Good luck! 💪
Tom
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