Ahhhh we're a lot nicer to mature age students. The philosophy is that mature age students are much more likely to stay in their course and complete it, not like all of those high school leavers who do their first year and then disappear until they mature . Sounds like it's just a bit more complicated with the o/s thing. Although you can apply with more than one university at entry, although it's more like a first preference, second preference, and so on thing. We have rounds of offers then on that basis.

I finished my undergrad at UNE, which takes a lot of external mature age students. It was great to be in a course (studying literature) with people who actually had some life experience. The more mature age students in a course the better! You go, girl!