The Free Boost Most Med Applicants Forget to Claim Adjustment factors, equity schemes, SEAS, EAS — different names, same idea. Here is how they work and who should apply. Every year, students miss out on a medicine offer by a fraction of a selection rank point — and a meaningful number of them were eligible for adjustment factors they never applied for. If something outside your control made Year 11 or 12 harder than it should have been, most Australian universities have a formal way to account for it. It costs you nothing but a form and some paperwork, and it cannot count against you. What are adjustment factors? Universities add adjustment factors to your selection rank — the number built from your ATAR — if you have experienced circumstances that negatively affected your education. Depending on where you apply, these are called special consideration , equity adjustments , access schemes , or simply adjustment factors . Two things worth understanding st...