merit scholarship (3 Viewers)

[Pwnage101]

Lulz.

I just splurted coke all over my keyboard after reading that.

i know eh?

09er's just dont get it

i know ppl who got 98.5+ and went into engineering, commerce, science, social science courses (all with UAI cutoff's 85-95) and even straight abchelor of arts (which is low 80's UAI cutoff)

seriously, one's ability to do well in the HSC has no bearing on what they like, they can like any course, even if they are way above the cutoff

you should alaways do a course you like, no matter what cutoff it is, and anyone hwo does otehrwise will most probably end upp losing 1, 2(,3?) years of their lives doing a degree they hate just because they got the marks, and then transfer to something they like in the end

and if you're wondering "why perform and put so much effort into HSC if you know you'll get in easy without much work?", well many ppl decide after HSC,a nd want to keep their options open, scholarships, and because you can!!

 

[LordPc]

geez, I say tomato, you say goose

law has a high cutoff which means a heck of a lot of people want to do it. so the only people getting a very high UAI get in, which means that these high UAIers are filling the all the law spots, hence many high UAIers doing law. that was my reasoning

so can you point out where i said that getting 100 UAI means you must do law or medicine?

I myself am doing a course where I was way above the cutoff, so like yea, I think I know a bit about choosing what you want to do, and not choosing what your UAI lets you do

 

[xeuyrawp]

are you sure about that? Because i have mates who had UAI's greater than 98.5 and didn't get one [and on the below link it says 47 ppl got a UAI of 98.5+ and went to amcquarie, yet only 10 ppl got schoalrships...)

I think we were confusing the Merit Scholar program with the Merit Scholarship itself.

 

[Pwnage101]

I think we were confusing the Merit Scholar program with the Merit Scholarship itself.

true that

 

[kevinant]

Okiez...this seems long time ago, but seems you guys have lots of questions, I'll just type what I know.
I remember it was like 10 out of 125 or something like that getting the scholarship.
I know a person getting it with UAI as low as 98.65(but with damn lots of extra-curriculars) and people with UAI of 99.65 missing out,so I don't think it's entirely based on UAI. However, UAI99.9+ definitely gets you one because that is rare in this uni.(The highest UAI was 99.85 or something like that in the uni in my year).

And yes we do usuaully have about one hundred students getting UAI above 98.5 before merit scholarship was introduced. There was something called innovation scholarship before my year where everyone gets $4000 if their UAI is above 98.5. However, from my year and onwards they replaced this with this thing. which gets them to apply for this and because not many students are getting it, they switched to UNSW or USYD off in later rounds, which is why we only have 44 students getting UAI above 98.5 this year (will be 43 provided that I wasn't stupid enough.) Now this is reminding me of sh**ty past because I have more reason than most of these 80 students on changing their preference in the late round. I actually got an offer of Academic Achievement Award scholarship from UNSW for being a dux in my school. But I was stupid enough to have too much faith in my ex-girlfriend otherwise it's very likely that I change the prefererence in the later rounds and the dream turned out to be disastrous shortly after late round deadline passed.

The merit scholar program is automatic (it's not a scholarship,it's a program that everyone gets in) and almost useless except you get to meet the Vice-Chancellor lots times for his event (you get invitations, but it's boring so I just don't go to most of them). And you get assigned with a mentor where you can get lots of info's(especially with the pass rate issue). Other than that, since they do not have a solid plan on this, most of the things stated in the AD do not exist.

 

[lyounamu]

Okiez...this seems long time ago, but seems you guys have lots of questions, I'll just type what I know.
I remember it was like 10 out of 125 or something like that getting the scholarship.
I know a person getting it with UAI as low as 98.65(but with damn lots of extra-curriculars) and people with UAI of 99.65 missing out,so I don't think it's entirely based on UAI. However, UAI99.9+ definitely gets you one because that is rare in this uni.(The highest UAI was 99.85 or something like that in the uni in my year).

And yes we do usuaully have about one hundred students getting UAI above 98.5 before merit scholarship was introduced. There was something called innovation scholarship before my year where everyone gets $4000 if their UAI is above 98.5. However, from my year and onwards they replaced this with this thing. which gets them to apply for this and because not many students are getting it, they switched to UNSW or USYD off in later rounds, which is why we only have 44 students getting UAI above 98.5 this year (will be 43 provided that I wasn't stupid enough.) Now this is reminding me of sh**ty past because I have more reason than most of these 80 students on changing their preference in the late round. I actually got an offer of Academic Achievement Award scholarship from UNSW for being a dux in my school. But I was stupid enough to have too much faith in my ex-girlfriend otherwise it's very likely that I change the prefererence in the later rounds and the dream turned out to be disastrous shortly after late round deadline passed.

The merit scholar program is automatic (it's not a scholarship,it's a program that everyone gets in) and almost useless except you get to meet the Vice-Chancellor lots times for his event (you get invitations, but it's boring so I just don't go to most of them). And you get assigned with a mentor where you can get lots of info's(especially with the pass rate issue). Other than that, since they do not have a solid plan on this, most of the things stated in the AD do not exist.

Oh right. Quick question...what happens to the number of recipients of this award if there are people who decline the scholarship?

So let's say they give 10 places out for this scholarship originally. Then like 5 people get it and decline it. Does that mean that there will only be 5 people getting the scholarship or does this mean that they will give those extra 5 places out?