USYD combined law atar is lowered... (1 Viewer)

[mreditor16]

Hi There!

I'm personally not interested in law, but I'll post this for the sake of those interested in going into legal related stuffs. haha

I'll just quote USYD.

"Sydney Law School would like to announce the 2015 guarantee ATAR cut off for the combined undergraduate law degree will now be set at 99.50. The Dean, Professor Joellen Riley, announced the ATAR at Open Day saying "this move will see a new level of transparency and fairness for their students in the top 0.5% of cohort looking to study Law at Sydney". Student’s achieving an ATAR of 99.50 will be guaranteed an offer to study Law if it is their highest eligible preference. For more information, please visit our website."

thoughts?

and btw has this been posted on BOS yet?....

 

[seventhroot]

lol; decreased by 0.2

huge difference/10

 

[astroman]

lol; decreased by 0.2

huge difference/10

it is actually pretty impacting for the 99+ range

 

[Futuremedstudent]

lol; decreased by 0.2

huge difference/10

for some people it might mean heaps cos previously if one got 99.6 then they wouldn't have accepted so yeah

 

[Drifting95]

Wow, that's interesting. Not sure what to think tbh

 

[seventhroot]

it is actually pretty impacting for the 99+ range

not really. I know people who have got straight into usyd law (specifically law/eco) with 98.something atar

for some people it might mean heaps cos previously if one got 99.6 then they wouldn't have accepted so yeah

if you fall a little short they still generally accept you (aside from med)

 

[Futuremedstudent]

not really. I know people who have got straight into usyd law (specifically law/eco) with 98.something atar


if you fall a little short they still generally accept you (aside from med)

really, didn't know that! the person at unsw open day told that if one even gets 0.05 below the cut off then they would not be accepted.

 

[seventhroot]

really, didn't know that! the person at unsw open day told that if one even gets 0.05 below the cut off then they would not be accepted.

can confirm 100% bullshit

 

[Futuremedstudent]

can confirm 100% bullshit

ok good was stressing that i might not reach the cut off.

 

[seventhroot]

ok good was stressing that i might not reach the cut off.

aside from med it pretty much isn't

 

[bangladesh]

ok good was stressing that i might not reach the cut off.

dont u wanna do med lol? or are you gonna be a typical 'couldn't get med, so did law'

 

[Futuremedstudent]

dont u wanna do med lol? or are you gonna be a typical 'couldn't get med, so did law'

no not anymore, i suddenly had a shift from med to law after unsw open day.
thought med is out of my league
btw i cannot change my username i asked the mods and they said no... so yeah i really don't wanna make a new account.

so cheers bro

 

[seventhroot]

no not anymore, i suddenly had a shift from med to law after unsw open day.
thought med is out of my league
btw i cannot change my username i asked the mods and they said no... so yeah i really don't wanna make a new account.

is 'Futurelawstudent' already taken?

 

[Futuremedstudent]

is 'Futurelawstudent' already taken?

nah, said they would only change if it was for privacy reasons..

 

[seventhroot]

nah, said they would only change if it was for privacy reasons..

bend the truth Futurelawstudent

 

[Futuremedstudent]

Anyways i wanna change it to grace_26

 

[Futuremedstudent]

bend the truth Futurelawstudent

????

 

[emilios]

lol; decreased by 0.2

huge difference/10

That puts almost an extra 200 students in the competition pool for the degree... pretty big deal if you ask me.

EDIT: Those people you know that got in with 98.something were probably E12 scholarship recipients

 

[seventhroot]

gonna stop now cos dun wanna derail anymoar

 

[seventhroot]

That puts almost an extra 200 students in the competition pool for the degree... pretty big deal if you ask me.

not everyone who gets 99+ atar wants to do law. I still would have went into engineering whether I got 99 or 89