My answer is no. I am guessing the universities send to the UAC office all the candidates which were succesful in getting the desired ATAR for there course. The UAC then chooses which courses the student will get into through his preferences. Then the UAC will tell the uni's wether they student...
What is so bad about them? For the average kid who finds it hard not to procrastinate and study, it offers them a place where you basically have to study and there is little to no procrastination.
thats for online assitance,,which is expensive..but the general programs are not that expensive and you get the luxury of watching the video at home to revise of what you did in teh day
eligible as in basically first...like say you put UOW early entry as number 3...and u dont get the atar for preference 1 and 2 but u get the atar for EE then it is your first highest eligible preference