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-Australian National University
-Monash University
-University of Adelaide
-University of Melbourne
-University of New South Wales
-University of Queensland
-University of Sydney
-University of Western Australia
Above are the universities that form the Group of Eight...
you went to narrabundah lol how did you not get 95+? anyway, you didn't get scaled mark of 95 in apps, i saw the marks there and the top was about 75. well below the mean for methods
the AST scales your cohort amongst the system eg. specialist maths at Narrabundah college ranks ahead of others schools and thus the marks are scaled up by the difference between specialist maths mean at Narrabundah and the system mean. if a class within a school is ranked below the system mean...
gee that sounds pretty sweet! so far i've nothing new/interesting/worth studying but the work's still piling up! Damn med sci - why can't they just let people with provisional places trade them in for an undergrad place somewhere else? or maybe a medical school black-market?
"i'll give you my...
sorry chinaski but i don't see where you're going with the comment "... the short sighted view of the 'best' = kids with high UAIs"
in all reality that is the truth about school leavers. the UAI depicts both a student's intellectual ability and their attitudes towards work (their work ethic)...
well that would explain why i didn't get in (at a decent medical school that is)
my advice:
if you want usyd/monash/unsw med straight out of school
don't wait until last term of year 12 to start doing some work or you'll be doing graduate entry
yes chinaski you're right!
however, you must remember that this is easily the most prestigious and sought after degree at an undergraduate level and for that reason, the cutoffs are very high as the medical schools have a large number of people to choose from.
so yes, you may not need to be...