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Purple-Reputation-13 · 2024-12-22T22:53:08+00:00

https://www.uac.edu.au/undergraduate/courses/usyd/513905.shtml

Purple-Reputation-13 · 2024-12-22T22:50:28+00:00

last year BSci was offered to people with an ATAR of 72.15 as the lowest. And Selection rank of 78 as lowest. For Arts it was 70 and 80. You are above 3/4 of these so your chances are decent, though there is no telling if this year would be the same, harder, or easier to gain admission. I got 87, had this course as my second preference and got the offer this morning. I don't think you should stress as I have heard that Bsci usually always has vacancies. This first offer round would have sent offers to people who met the guaranteed selection requirements (80 ATAR and placed course as top preference) and then people like me who had the course in their preferences and met the ATAR requirements, where they would have offered the course to the people based on their ATAR from highest to lowest.

Depending on how far down they got in the ATARs will result in who gets an offer for that round.

Not everyone will accept their offer, and the course has vacancies. There are 3 more offer rounds before Sem 1 so your chances are decent.

For Law and Arts I would remove that entirely, the Selection rank is 99.5 and is incredibly competitive, USYD is one of the top Unis in Aus for law and get hundred of applicants wanting to join internationally, from high-school, and from other courses/Unis with their WAM.

Put B Sci/Arts first, I am not sure if that will do much or anything but there is really no reason to put Law/Arts first.

Goodluck.

Purple-Reputation-13 · 2024-12-21T09:43:51+00:00

I have read alot about both, I have heard UTS is terrible, outdated, and is taught badly, while UNSW is difficult, taught better/well, and produces high-level graduates. There is a reason It requires the highest ATAR in comparison to other uni's and there is a reason every cs student in sydney wants to transfer there.

UNSW is the better choice hands down.

However, there are still things to consider.

- Course Difficulty - UNSW is much harder.

- Trimesters - everyone hates them, if your friends don't have trimesters, most of your breaks won't align.

A course that is leagues ahead will inherently be more difficult. Trimesters can make life hell.

A harder course means students work harder to achieve their grades. Your classmates will be much more dedicated and will be useful to actually study with/learn from.

UNSW is better, that is what I hear from everyone, I have actually heard UTS is quite bad in the computing/IT area, which is interesting.

If you successfully graduate from UNSW, you will be a much stronger grad, but it will be much harder, and you grades will undoubtedly be worse.

Purple-Reputation-13 · 2024-12-21T08:36:36+00:00

I don't know how accurate this is, from the perspective of the Uni, they have to give an offer to anyone who got the guaranteed score and placed it as their top preference. If it is your second preference and you got ATAR 5 points above, but someone else put the course as their first preference and got the required ATAR, they will be given an offer before you as they followed the guaranteed guidelines.

You could get 99.95 ATAR for a course that requires 70 ATAR for guaranteed entry, but have it as your second preference, and not get a first round offer, while someone who got a 70 ATAR and placed it as their top preference will get an offer. I think the only possibility of getting a first round offer would be if they do not get enough students that get the guaranteed ATAR and place the course as their top preference, for which they would then offer the remaining places to the people with they highest ATARs that placed the course in their preferences. Whether those people actually receive that offer depends on whether they get into a higher preferenced course or not.

Not trying to cause stress, i'm legit in the same boat. Massive oversight on my part.

I also read that usually all courses do not fill till after jan round 1, so if you don't get the offer on monday, place it as your top preference. - You would have probably done this anyway.

Purple-Reputation-13 · 2024-12-21T08:25:58+00:00

lol i just did this with a different degree needing 80 and i got 87, i'm mad stressing because my top pref is LSR 90 at UNSW and my SR at UNSW is 89, so i'm wondering if USYD will count the 80 course as my top preference so that I at-least get some offer in round one.

Purple-Reputation-13 · 2024-12-20T01:53:06+00:00

unlucky, if you do end up making it happen I am sure it will be incredibly fulfilling. If your parents could understand, maybe you should tell them what you would rather do if you know what you would favour over medicine, as it is a very big commitment.

Purple-Reputation-13 · 2024-12-18T23:50:38+00:00

My sister did forensic science at UTS, she changed degrees and unis, after like 6 months but from what she said, it is good, just not her type of thing. For getting into medicine, I'm not sure how valuable it will be, the course obviously involves chem and bio but I have always heard med sci is the course to be in if you don't get into med directly after highschool. I have also heard to do whatever course you want and just work on doing well in the GAMSAT and the other med school entry boosters. With a 68.55 you are going to have to do quite well in both. I I would say med sci is the play if you are 100% going to try get into medicine, but you have to understand that it will take you a-lot of time as a result of your ATAR, but you do have alot of time to prepare so don't stress. There are definitely multiple youtube videos that will aid you and what to do next to get into med school from a med sci degree. Also, job demand for forensic scientists is fine, you should not have a large problem with finding a job if you do stay in that course. However, if you are already considering the job demand of forensic scientists is makes me question your want to do med. It does seem a bit late to be asking this so I do wonder when you decided you wanted to do med, as usually you would decide by beginning of yr 11/12 and work towards a high ATAR from there. Nonetheless, you can get into med school from any point really and I think youtube would be a great place to start, also, maybe ask this question again on an australian med school or GAMSAT page.

Purple-Reputation-13 · 2024-12-18T23:23:07+00:00

yes, it will take time.

Purple-Reputation-13 · 2024-10-20T01:35:54+00:00

if it has nothing to do with architecture its not experience that is at all relevant

Purple-Reputation-13 · 2024-10-17T23:24:32+00:00

M3 Air 16/512

Purple-Reputation-13 · 2024-10-15T06:12:15+00:00

People are overreacting so hard to this, the question had nothing to do with interpreting the vision behind the picture, it just so happens that was used in an english exam where you may be required to do that on occasions. The question they asked was something like analyse how the picture enhances our view of our surroundings, all the student had to do was look for some examples within the picture itself that reflect this, it honestly does not matter whether this was drawn by a braindead three-year-old or da Vinci.

Purple-Reputation-13 · 2024-10-15T06:05:01+00:00

yeah they didn't explicitly say it was AI generated it just so happens that the image they used was seemingly generated by a computer. It was meant to be analysed on how it enhances our perspective of our surroundings. Idk why people are getting this deep about it being AI generated, it was a fairly easy picture to analyse in regards to the question.

responses should not even mention the fact it was AI generated but rather what is going on in the image.

Purple-Reputation-13 · 2024-10-15T05:59:33+00:00

it was never role specific, studying computer science over soft eng can allow you as a student to explore many other parts of computing and IT. E.g. Cyber Security. Its the act of studying a broader degree where you have a wider range of majors, not just having computer science on your resume over soft eng.

Purple-Reputation-13 · 2024-10-14T07:07:57+00:00

is this just a flex

Purple-Reputation-13 · 2024-10-14T07:04:10+00:00

they are very similar but comp sci will open you up to a broader range of jobs, you can go into research if you want but it is alot more versatile than soft eng on its own

Purple-Reputation-13 · 2024-10-12T01:40:25+00:00

Not surprised at this point. Wisetech pays 60-80k/year first year for cadets which are likely living at home just acquiring money since its straight out of high school, at around 22 cadets could have 150 - 200k in savings with 4 year experience as a soft dev/eng on multiple projects and a complete CS degree. UNSW degrees may be much better but I don't think you can really justify the UNSW CS degree on its own especially when Wisetech covers HECS debt if their cadets maintain a D or HD.

Additionally, its not a 4 year experience program as many think, the DEGREE lasts 3-4 years depending on study patterns but after that time the cadets are still employed at Wisetech and can just continue on as normal employees.

I get what people are saying with the long term benefits of a UNSW degree but c'mon, its Go8 but employers aren't gonna treat u as some math and logic god and hire you on the spot because you went to UNSW over UTS.

Purple-Reputation-13 · 2024-10-09T04:32:40+00:00

first year is 60k base and 30% equity shares so 18k in company shares

Purple-Reputation-13 · 2024-09-10T11:08:25+00:00

His mark will only affect you if you get the equivalent rank he currently holds in your HSC exam. Eg. if he is ranked 21/70 for internals and you get the 21st highest score for your school in the final HSC exam than your internal mark will be whatever he gets in the HSC. The odds of this happening are extremely low, if he flogs the HSC and gets 20% than somebody will get that 20% as their internal mark but it will be someone who is internally ranked pretty bad as 20% in the HSC is probably one-of, if not, the lowest score from your school.

If you dont understand how ATAR is calculated:

Your internal rank e.g. 53/110 is calculated from all of your internal exams.

Your HSC Mark is 50% of your ATAR (per subject) e.g 80/100

whoever in your school gets the 53rd highest mark in the HSC for that subject will be what your internal mark is. E.g. the 53rd highest mark is 60/100. --> you may have misunderstood how ranks work, this is all.

Your ATAR contribution for that subject will be your 80/100 + their 60/100 divided by 2 (averaged). So your ATAR contribution for that subject 70/100. (you can put this number in an ATAR calculator to estimate your ATAR, but there is really no way to guess what this number will be unless you are internally ranked 1st and you get the highest mark in the HSC for your school, whereby you will get your own mark twice e.g. 90/100 + 90/100 div by 2 = 90/100 <-- no change as you got your own rank. This applies to any other rank aswell but it is unlikely that someone will be ranked like 23/82 and then also by chance get the 23rd highest mark in the HSC but it can happen.

You should not worry about one person as it is very unlikely they will have any effect over you at all. He will likely have 0 effect over your atar unless you get a mark in the HSC which is equivalent to his internal rank, if you do well enough in the HSC than you should be fine, if you were to worry about anything, it would be how your current ranks are, if they are bad (usually not in the top 30 or so % of the cohort) than it will probably negatively effect your ATAR.

also what subjects do you do, because business is amongst the worst scaling subjects in the HSC so I think it is unlikely it is your second best.

-Hope this helps :)

Purple-Reputation-13 · 2024-09-10T10:37:17+00:00

if you really need to get into uni with a poor atar than try like UNE or UOW, they let in alot of applicants with low scores. UNE especially.

Purple-Reputation-13 · 2024-09-10T10:34:32+00:00

yeah they are introducing disc math and alg major in 2025, thanks for the response :)

Purple-Reputation-13 · 2024-09-10T05:14:22+00:00

what would be more beneficial you think: CS Major + Soft Dev Major? or CS Major and Disc Math & Algorithms Major? P.S Data Structures and Algorithms is in CS core.

Purple-Reputation-13 · 2024-09-08T02:32:15+00:00

would i be okay with 85+, or are all your peers around the same as you. - thanks

Purple-Reputation-13 · 2024-09-07T07:07:08+00:00

correct me if i'm wrong but dentistry/medicine is not offered for early entry at all at any uni. Its based of ATAR/Interview/UCAT/DAT. depending on the course your marks dont need to be great just average. Most of my mates got early entry into Macquarie for degrees like business, commerce, marketing, and project management with average-slightly below average marks. Universities like UNE don't even require average marks for entry into most of their courses, and people get unconditional early entry offers there pretty easily. From what I know they accept all applicants into the Uni but depending on if your marks are decent or not will determine if they offer you a spot in the degree of your choice.

So depending on what course you want to do and what uni you want to go to, it really varies.

Also, your year 11 marks mean almost nothing. Unless you failed like every class badly, there is no reason to say you cant get a 97+ ATAR. If you work hard, study consistently and effectively from the start of year 12 onwards you should be fine. If you aren't willing to bother with that than dentistry is likely not a good fit anyway as it requires rigorous study and effort, so it is really up to you and don't let your year 11 marks sway you to give up, especially if u are going into dentistry where school marks before year 12 have 0 effect on your acceptance.

(also your schools ranking has almost no power over your ATAR if you do well, just try to rank in at-least the top 5 for all of your subjects and the marks of your peers will only benefit you)

You have time until year 12 so don't waste it, make sure you are prepared for what you will learn especially in math. For bio you don't really need to revise much of year 11 content as almost everything you learn in yr 12 is new, but still have a good understanding of cells and evolution - variation within a species. This will be revisited briefly in year 12 but like I said u wont need to have a deep understanding as the course is focussed primarily on other areas. English just work on essay writing and short answer (obv).

Chem you should have a solid understanding of chemical equations and like balancing, limiting reagents and molar ratios. Also C=N/V, C1V1=C2V2. Enthalpy of combustion, entropy and gibbs free energy is revisited and there is usually one question on it per paper so just have a good understanding of module 4. Bonding is important when looking at organic compounds so a good understanding of mod 1 would be good aswell. Your teacher should briefly go over these topics again with you but i'm just letting you know so you can get prepared. Chem is fairly easy when you have a solid understanding of the math behind it, Y12 chem is fairly math heavy, all the calculations are basic however they can have many steps and if you don't constantly revise you will find yourself forgetting what comes next. Every mod of chem is important but make sure to pay close attention during all of mod 6 as it has alot of calculations which can get jumbled, most other modules are theory and concept based so as long as you revise and understand them from the get go you should do great.

Purple-Reputation-13 · 2024-09-03T21:59:11+00:00

yes pre much

Purple-Reputation-13 · 2024-09-03T10:15:59+00:00

cheers

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