Futures and Pathways – SRS Early Entry Options

Futures and Pathways – SRS Early Entry Options

For students engaging with the UAC application portal, you are advised to consider interacting with the SRS early entry options – they may lead to an early offer, and for many students it is another way to collect ‘back-up’ options.

Steps below refer to the offer rounds:

  • Click the box that refers to SRS in your UAC application (by Friday 11 September 2026) – make sure you have paid for your application – and then you have ‘applied’ for SRS. (this is mandatory and only you can do this through your UAC application online)
  • The school will get a message to ‘rate’ you – there is nothing for you to do here
  • Students will engage with the SRS (early entry rounds) firstly through UAC November Round 1 and have your preferences locked in by Thursday 5 November 2026
  • Make the most of all SRS rounds prior to the Main ATAR offer rounds; you are advised to maximise preferences that are SRS eligible – to work out which courses are SRS eligible you need to carefully check the policies for each institution
  • Essentially, any course listed in UAC in the early rounds that are not SRS eligible will be skipped over – therefore students will typically withdraw some preferences in those early rounds, with the intention to add them back in for the main rounds (obviously the risk here is that any preferences removed must be added back in by the appropriate date – which you can work out by looking at the ‘lock preferences’ date in the UAC offer rounds – failure to put those preferences back in is a problem – so be careful with this)
  • The only exception to taking preferences out for the purpose of SRS rounds is if you have been specifically asked to have a main round preference added into UAC early – which is usually only for medicine courses

There will be further multiple SRS reminders to students as we get closer to those deadlines. For more information see following links:

UAC – Schools Recommendation Scheme

UAC – Year 12 key dates 2026-2027

UAC – Institute specific SRS Criteria

The application process is complex, and SRS is perhaps the most complex of all. It is recommended that students seek assistance to make sense of the process.

Reach out to the Careers team ASAP if you would like to discuss this opportunity.

– Nicole Massara
Futures and Pathways Advisor