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Increased access to higher education means that greatly diverse students are beginning their tertiary learning journey. We investigate the experiences of a group of non-traditional students undertaking a tertiary preparation program at a regional university, based at a satellite campus in a low socio-economic area. Bourdieu’s conceptual tools are used to frame the significance that symbolic capital has on the experience of students. Using phenomenography, the experiences of nine students were recorded and interpreted. Interviews were used to identify which aspects of the university experience they considered were the most important. Students’ motivation, social networks, staffstudent interactions and the various challenges were among the most important experiences mentioned. These combined to create three analogous categories, stairway, doorway and hallway (SDH). The students’experiences in the program may be likened to a stairway  \nExperiences of bridging program students at a regional satellite campus 243  \nthat must be climbed; a doorway that must be passed through; or a hallway that offers opportunities for exploration along the journey. The SDH model is a useful way to categorise students, to identify their experiences and develop strategies to support them.  \nKeywords: Tertiary preparation, bridging programs, nontraditional students, satellite campus, widening participation, access to higher education  \nIntroduction  \nTertiary education benefits both the individual and society. Access to university has been extended through tertiary preparation or bridging programs for students without the requisite educational qualifications for direct entry. The provision of satellite campuses outside major geographical areas has also facilitated wider participation, meaning that many new students come to university from distinctly different backgrounds, with different support systems and different life experiences from those of traditional students. This paper reports on the experiences of a small group of students, who were all studying a bridging program on a regional satellite campus in a low socioeconomic area. A phenomenographic approach was used to allow the students to report their experiences in their own words. Following semi-structured interviews, the researchers determined which issues were most important to the students under investigation, and three thematic categories arose. These categories were analogous to seeing the program as a Stairway, a Doorway or a Hallway (SDH) . The implications of the issues experienced by the students aligning to each category are discussed, as well as the potential for supporting further research.  \nContext  \nThe program discussed here is a bridging program at a Queensland regional university with currently more than 500 students enrolled each semester. Enrolment is equity-based with anyone over seventeen eligible to enrol. Approximately half the students who enrol in the program complete it, and half of those students then enrol in an undergraduate degree at the same university.  \nFunded by the Australian Government’s Education Investment Fund,  \n244 Sandra Elsom, Ruth Greenaway and Margaret Marshman  \nthe University recently constructed a satellite campus in a regional, long established, low socio-economic area. The 2011 census showed that nearly 45% of adults in the region earn less than $400 weekly and that 48% of adults have a post-school qualification compared to 54% nationally (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2011) . This illustrates the value of a satellite campus in the area making higher education more accessible. 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