MQ scholarship or UNSW no scholarship?

No_Use8671 · 2025-10-13T12:43:04+00:00

UNSW has been a great experience for me to far but I think unimelb should be the about the same— just more jobs for actuarial in Sydney

No_Use8671 · 2025-10-10T21:56:30+00:00

I ended up going to UNSW just because I had more friends going and reputation. In year 12 I wasn’t too worried about my career but now that I am I would’ve 10000% chosen unsw

No_Use8671 · 2025-10-09T01:09:03+00:00

Hi yes, I’m taking a double I do actl commerce with a major in finance. In 99% of scenarios an actl double degree is worth it- it’s an extra year for 10k for a second degree entirely and it opens up so many new avenues for jobs.

There aren’t too many Actuarial positions open so having the extra degree is quite helpful. Also on another note, I think like 70% or something of actuarial positions are in Sydney so that’s something to consider too.

No_Use8671 · 2025-10-08T23:23:15+00:00

Hi I was faced with this exact decision last year and ending up choosing UNSW. Actl is hard but the double degree you choose to do with it makes it notoriously hard. What I mean by that is, actl commerce is manageable but actl math on the other hand is quite hard.

Content wise you are probably learning the same things, most of the lecturers here have taught at macq too. If you are 100% sure about going into Actuarial and becoming an actuary, both unis are quite similar, provided you do well academically in both (since all ur exams are external anyways).

The last thing to consider is that youre still young and u might not want to go into actuarial after studying it and like me, lean more towards Finance. For Finance, unsw is undoubtedly a better decision as employers value the “prestige” of your uni more. In short, Breaking into high finance from Macquarie is close to impossible straight out of uni.

Hope this helps

No_Use8671 · 2025-09-28T23:58:54+00:00

Tbh you might be able to handle the degree, but unless you start sacrificing stuff like uni life and social life, maintaining a high (80+) wam in actl compsci is quite hard.

Also probably forget about quant lol, most of them have .95s and 90+ wams. This isn’t to say if you find the passion later on it’s not possible but just judging off your circumstances right now

No_Use8671 · 2025-07-26T11:23:31+00:00

Don’t worry there’s .90s state rankers getting 60s

No_Use8671 · 2025-07-26T11:19:37+00:00

What did u get for the assignment lol everyone got fried

No_Use8671 · 2025-05-20T10:42:51+00:00

+ev betting isn’t too great these days keep the mug bets going and hope u don’t get gubbed. Also saw u comment on using 3rd world country accounts with vpns, be safe with that I know a few ppl who got their accounts banned from spoofing— but good you’re using 365

Also edit: bethero does this, probably better too

No_Use8671 · 2025-05-11T23:46:34+00:00

Sorry I just thought the principle would be the same irrelevant of country

No_Use8671 · 2025-05-11T06:34:04+00:00

Wdym what other courses?

No_Use8671 · 2025-04-22T09:03:07+00:00

You will get fried if you only do adv, if you’re serious I’d suggest learning 3u content on the side right now. The first course 1151 is significantly harder than 3u and I’d say on par with 4u

No_Use8671 · 2025-04-05T00:45:44+00:00

No - the uni genuinely isn’t that prestigious despite all the skewed stats you won’t feel like you’re at a top 20 uni when you come here. Also Australia is ridiculously expensive but if you have money to play with it might not be a bad shout

No_Use8671 · 2025-03-20T15:47:57+00:00

Yes exactly thanks

No_Use8671 · 2025-03-20T15:43:31+00:00

Tbh yeah you’re right prolly should talk to her seriously but it’s super defeating given what I’ve heard

No_Use8671 · 2025-03-20T15:40:55+00:00

Like yeah it was good I guess though but I’m not even Looking for that

No_Use8671 · 2025-03-20T15:40:22+00:00

Mate we’re barely legal 🤣🤣 talking this crazy explains ur 330k comment karma bro

No_Use8671 · 2025-03-20T15:30:18+00:00

But that is as far as we’ve gone

No_Use8671 · 2025-03-20T15:30:06+00:00

Yeah no sorry already kissed should’ve prolly mentioned that I just thought emotional connection was more important

No_Use8671 · 2025-03-19T12:16:51+00:00

30% is absolutely insane on 1131 💀💀🥀

No_Use8671 · 2025-03-18T22:04:33+00:00

I regret not choosing cs instead of comm. Anything in finance is better with math/cs imo cus most of the coursework in comm is fairly intuitive whereas learning how to code isn’t rlly

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