Membership

Requirements for candidate membership are as follows.

General Requirements

You must:

• be a student at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington;

• major in at least one of Accounting, Finance, or Information Systems.

Academic requirements

You need to:

• Have enrolled in specific papers and have finished specific papers:

  • • For undergraduates: Currently enrolled in at least one 200-level or higher paper in you chosen major(s), and have completed the first year of your undergraduate degree(s).

    • For Master of Professional Accounting candidates: Have completed at least three 500-level papers.

    • For other graduate students majoring in Accounting, Finance, or Information Systems: No specific requirements of course enrolment.

• Have acquired an average grade of B+ or higher across the papers of your chosen major(s), or have an average grade of B across the papers of your chosen major(s) along with evidence of extracurricular activity excellence (will be assessed by the committee).

• Have an average grade of B or higher overall in commerce papers taken at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.

Apply to be a Candidate Member

Step 1: Fill out the application form for candidate membership

• Online registration using the form below.

• Or download the application form (You can download it, fill it and send it to us as an equivalent to online registration).

Step 2: Send us your transcript and/or evidence of your extracurricular excellence

• Obtain the screenshot of your unofficial transcript from your Academic History online (the whole page containing the grade information). You can access this by going to Puaha, clicking on Student Records, and then going to “Academic History”.

• If your average grade of the papers of your chosen major(s) is B or lower, we recommend you to prepare evidence of your extracurricular excellence in order to acquire higher success rate of becoming a candidate member. The evidence can be in form of personal statements along with photos.

• Email all the information to vuwbap@vuwbap.co.nz

Step 3: Pay the one-off NZD $120 lifetime fee

• Obtain a scholarship by applying when applications open.

• Or pay either by online transfer or in cash. 

Requirements for full membership are as follows.

Event participation

As a candidate member, you need to accumulate a minimum of:

• Four professional events points

• Two community service events points

• Note:

  • • Attending an event or a service equals one point.

    • Organising an event or a service equals two points.

Academic requirements

• You will need to maintain an average grade of B+ or higher across the papers of your chosen major(s), or maintain an average grade of B across the papers of your chosen major(s) along with evidence of extracurricular activity excellence (will be assessed by the committee).

Notification of Full Membership

Please note that we only hold initiations for full memberships once a term (except Trimester 3). Each term, we will email initiation details to all members that meet the full membership requirements.

Step 1: Receive an email from us

• Once you have successfully accumulated four professional events points and two community service events points, we will send you an email confirming that you have met the event participation requirements for full membership. You will be asked to send us your academic transcript to confirm you meet our academic requirements.

Step 2: Send us your transcript.

• Obtain the screenshot of your unofficial transcript from Puaha online (the whole page containing the grade information).

• If your average grade of the papers of your chosen major(s) is B, we recommend you provide evidence of your extracurricular excellence to support your application for becoming a candidate member. The evidence can be in the form of personal statements along with photos.

• Email all the information to admin@vuwbap.co.nz.

Step 3: Receive a final confirmation from us

• We will assess all the information in hand related to your full membership recognition. Once we have finished the assessment process, we will send the final confirmation of full membership to you and invite you to attend an initiation ceremony.

Use the below form to apply for candidate membership at Beta Alpha Psi's Wellington chapter - this gets checked over by our executive committee and responded to within a few days! If you have any questions about the form, email us at admin@vuwbap.co.nz. and we will get back to you shortly.