ANU to revamp admissions as VC outlines new vision<»
ANU will revamp the way it deals with student admissions and move away from judging students only on their year 12 ATAR results under changes announced by Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt AC. Professor Schmidt announced a series of new initiatives to attract the best students and early to mid-career researchers to ANU, and to help ANU work more collaboratively with business and government, in a speech to mark the University's 70th anniversary. He said ANU would change the way it admits students by looking beyond an ATAR score and recognising co-curriculum and community contributions of potential students. "ANU will lead the country in changing the way that universities admit students. Students applying to ANU will be considered on the whole person, not just their ATAR score," he said. "All students applying to ANU will have co-curriculum and community contributions recognised. Our scholarship program will be national and take into account outstanding academic results, non-academic achievement and financial need.
