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Did anyone get an invitation to go? Im confused because I was told by the headmaster of st. andrews college that only people who got 99.5 or over got invited but I only got 98.5 :confused:
 

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I got invited, 99.85 here. I think they might take marks into account as well as UAI, don't really know tho.
 

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Originally posted by kini mini
I got invited, 99.85 here. I think they might take marks into account as well as UAI, don't really know tho.
what marks would they take into account? wouldn't it just be your UAI?
 

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i got invited to that, and i got a letter from unsw too (oh how exciting, although neither of them will give me money, which is what i really need). maybe the guy at andrews got it wrong? the one from unsw said top 1000 students down the bottom, i don't know if it's a similar criteria that usyd uses. shrug.

(my uai 99.6)
 

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Originally posted by Ultimate


what marks would they take into account? wouldn't it just be your UAI?
If they did use marks they might say something like (for a law course) "invite everyone who got band 6 in 2U & 3U regardless of whether they bombed something else and didn't get that good a UAI"
 

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Originally posted by alys
i got invited to that, and i got a letter from unsw too (oh how exciting, although neither of them will give me money, which is what i really need). maybe the guy at andrews got it wrong? the one from unsw said top 1000 students down the bottom, i don't know if it's a similar criteria that usyd uses. shrug.

(my uai 99.6)
Yeah the guy at andrews must have gotten it wrong. And it's not as if I did brilliantly in all my subjects only got 6 units over 90 and over, the other 4 units were 2 marks off 90.

I'm pretty sure it's based on your UAI though, otherwise there would be too many people there if u go by ppl who got into the top bands for subjects.
 

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This is freaky, i came into this roooom just to ask the same question as this thread. I got 98.95 and i still got a letter....itll be good to be able to have conversations with lecturers, deans etc
 

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Originally posted by utopian731
This is freaky, i came into this roooom just to ask the same question as this thread. I got 98.95 and i still got a letter....itll be good to be able to have conversations with lecturers, deans etc
Yeah atleast you will beat the rush before the infoo day. I think I will go to it.
 

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Originally posted by alys
i got invited to that, and i got a letter from unsw too (oh how exciting, although neither of them will give me money, which is what i really need). maybe the guy at andrews got it wrong? the one from unsw said top 1000 students down the bottom, i don't know if it's a similar criteria that usyd uses. shrug.

(my uai 99.6)
Whats the one at UNSW...i got 99.75 but only got an invitation to the one at USYD..whens the on at UNSW on?
 

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Just _what_ is the one at Sydney Uni about? I'm travelling 5 hours to get there, so it better be good! (Was actually planning on going to the open day, but I thought this might be better?) PS - my UAI was 98.5 too, so maybe he meant "98.5 and over" not 99.5 - and I didn't get an invite to the UNSW one, so maybe it's only if it's your first preference
 

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Originally posted by Jason
Just _what_ is the one at Sydney Uni about? I'm travelling 5 hours to get there, so it better be good! (Was actually planning on going to the open day, but I thought this might be better?) PS - my UAI was 98.5 too, so maybe he meant "98.5 and over" not 99.5 - and I didn't get an invite to the UNSW one, so maybe it's only if it's your first preference
Yeah it must have been. I think it will be better than the open day simply because there will be less ppl there.
 

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Originally posted by Ultimate


Yeah it must have been. I think it will be better than the open day simply because there will be less ppl there.
omgosh the place will be full of brains :eek:

i only got 97.5 but my friend got 99.6 so hes goin 2 the usyd one, n asked me 2 come so ill b like, the dumbass amongst the crowd hehe...im just hangin out 2 watch 'the hot chick' afterwards :D
 

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Okayyy...Ill repeat myself: Does anyone know anything bout the UNSW one...for high achievers..any details??
 

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yeah, could someone answer Ozze's question, because I'm curious too!
 

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Originally posted by Ozz^E
Okayyy...Ill repeat myself: Does anyone know anything bout the UNSW one...for high achievers..any details??
The person kindly opening my mail back in Sydney says I got invited, probably because it's my first pref. I suppose it'll be the usual thing in the roundhouse with faculty reps? I remember my dad had to be the faculty rep for a couple of years when I was in pri sch.
 

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Originally posted by Ozz^E
Okayyy...Ill repeat myself: Does anyone know anything bout the UNSW one...for high achievers..any details??
I got a letter from UNSW congratulating me for my result. It invited me to the open day on the 3rd. I don't know if there's anything on on the 2nd there...maybe this letter is the one alys was talking about. On the bottom of the letter it said "letter to top 1000 students.doc", so I think it was UAI-based.
 

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Originally posted by Ultimate
Did anyone get an invitation to go? Im confused because I was told by the headmaster of st. andrews college that only people who got 99.5 or over got invited but I only got 98.5 :confused:
OK - from a TSP brochure:

To be considered for the program in their first year, students should normally have a UAI (or equivalent) over 98.7 and a mark over 90 in at least one science subject area and/or over 95 in Mathematics Extension 1; or demonstrate exceptional performance in scientific study (eg. olympiad level).
 

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Re: Re: Usyd january 2nd day for high achievers

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OK - from a TSP brochure:

To be considered for the program in their first year, students should normally have a UAI (or equivalent) over 98.7 and a mark over 90 in at least one science subject area and/or over 95 in Mathematics Extension 1; or demonstrate exceptional performance in scientific study (eg. olympiad level).
They'd be lucky to get the olympiad ppl, they all get offered scholarships by the big American colleges if they do well!

TSP is an opportunity to swap class time for more research I think :cool:
 

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I was in the physics TSP this year oh hmm that really should be 'last year' now... yeah, anyway, personally I think it's really overrated. :p

There were two olympiad guys in there... and maybe 20 doing it total.
 

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