Things don’t always go to plan, and some students were mistakenly told they were eligible for a scholarship at Melbourne University because of an administrative error at the state’s tertiary admissions centre.
Young people applying for equity scholarships at the prestigious institution were told last week that they were eligible for the scheme to study next year.
But the university has had to write again to applicants, many of whom are finishing year 12 this year, to tell them they were actually not eligible and they were “misclassified” by the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC).
News of the bureaucratic error comes as tens of thousands of students across the state wait to receive their VCE results and university admission scores (ATAR) today.
A source close to the matter, who is not authorised to speak publicly, said the numbers might run into the thousands.
The university said it was working with the admissions centre to support the incorrectly identified students, but that no offers of scholarships had been made.
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