Xenocide said:
Ruse people are smart? Who would have thought that only accepting the top 1% of kids would result in a generally very high average UAI!
All sarcasm aside, Ruse students avergage about 99.3 as a UAI which is about what u would expect. If it had been any lower than 99 then the school would have actually been hindering their students, as it is they help students slight improve their expected UAI's (99).
UAI does not reflect on intelligence alone and hence you cannot say that everyone who got 99+ is the top 1%. Also the selective schools exam varies in nature from the HSC and a comparison cannot be made. A lot changes in 6 years, mostly independent of the school.
While the median of UAI might be over 99, there is no evidence to suggest that the lowest UAI could not be 90 or even 80. And considering that the school does not get definitive UAI of students from UAC, and only from the students themselves, it clearly shows that the true median would be lower, since the students with the lowest UAIs would not both reporting them to the school, or that the school ignores them.
In fact, it's easy to say, unless you got a 99.5+ UAI, don't report back to the school. Then from the facts that the school has, it can say that all the known UAIs are above 99.5.
Just because it's James Ruse doesn't mean it doesn't have strugglers.