WTFwow yesterday i was freaking out over atar results and today i find out that my friends from my old school (not in australia) got acceptance letters from unis like princeton, cornell, nyu etc what the hell
bruh he thinks 3u is too easy and ppl who say 4u is hard are just dumb.
ive been wondering this too, because i only came to australia at the start of year 11 i was supposed to be on track to apply to american unis and i even tried to apply after starting my hsc but the application process is just so different, barely any of them recognise the atar at all but even if you had a crazy atar you’d need incredible extracurriculars, essays, community service hours and reccomendation letters from counselors… my school here in sydney didnt even have a counselor of any kind
so i didnt bother
i have mates in the US and basically ivy leagues are literally on another level - like a degree from a good reputable uni like usyd are globally recognised but not to the extent of american unis, especially the ivy league. and while australia recognises academic achievement to be the main factor in judging university applications, in the us academic achievement isn't the only major thing that indicates university acceptance also a bunch of stuff like extracurriculars (way more emphasis on extracurriculars like being like the star quarterback the football team) and written statements and high quality written essays and recommendation letters and stuff. also for the ivy league they also have that whole deal of accepting legacies (the kids of past alumni)
this sums it up pretty nicely, even with the common app being the american equivalent of uac it really isnt a general "one size fits all" application, like my dad (an american) said he put aside $2,000 in my college fund for application fees ALONE because we were assuming i'd be going to uni in the US but thankfully we only paid the uac fee which was only like $55 or something
Imo holistic admissions are cringe
Why and which sub
I'm thinking abt doing the same thing, do they really check ur answers again though?
they just check that everything is as it should be, it explains on the website
how are they going to though they’re not actually re marking everything and it’s not like missing a page will cause your marks to be higher
it's just a clerical check, they check that all pages were scanned onto the marking system correctly, etc. it is very rare for an error to be found as hsc marking has many quality control procedures, especially because it is done online. for example, if you used an extra writing booklet but it was not scanned in, the contents of the booklet would most likely increase your marks
yeah exactly, so it doesn’t really make sense for a mark to decrease as a result of a clerical check since they’re not gonna decide that a booklet that was scanned wasnt actually yours or something
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