Scots boys got into USYD without HSC (1 Viewer)

[Rafy]

http://www.smh.com.au/national/scot...y-university-without-hsc-20150405-1medae.html

Students from the elite Scots College have gained entry to the University of Sydney without sitting the Higher School Certificate, completing instead a 17-week diploma that is available at no other school.

The pilot program, devised by the university's commercially driven arm Sydney Learning, sparked outrage among some university staff, amid fears it allowed parents to buy their sons entry to an elite tertiary institution even though the boys might have struggled to gain the required marks under the HSC.

Aimed at students with predictive tertiary admissions ranks of between 55 and 70 per cent, it was taken up by eight Scots boys in 2014. Six were offered places in selected degree courses at the university this year. Four enrolled and one deferred.

 

[sy37]

gay

 

[astroman]

not surprising, i've heard ways in which people have paid tens of thousands of dollars to get entry to top elite schools in NSW

 

[isildurrrr1]

Uni's still have foundation programs that allow low/non-atar kiddies to gain entry. Or take a TPP in tafe for entry.

 

[Amundies]

Six were offered places in selected degree courses at the university this year.

I wonder what degrees they got offered. Was it something that required a high-ish ATAR (90+), or was it more like 75-85?

 

[Queenroot]

Nek min 99.95

 

[Drongoski]

Just think: what is the use of being rich if it brings no advantages?

 

[sirable1]

I wonder what degrees they got offered. Was it something that required a high-ish ATAR (90+), or was it more like 75-85?

It seems to be a whole different range, but restricted to: liberal arts and science, health sciences, animal and veterinary bioscience, visual arts, music and oral health – or in the diploma of law.

 

[Amundies]

Just think: what is the use of being rich if it brings no advantages?

Advantages should be buying a $200k Audi or renting out the whole of Hilton Hotel for a day. Advantages shouldn't include doing a "diploma" that only you get to do and no one else does, which puts you into a course which otherwise you would have had 0 chance at getting into.

It seems to be a whole different range, but restricted to: liberal arts and science, health sciences, animal and veterinary bioscience, visual arts, music and oral health – or in the diploma of law.

Ah right thanks, so nothing interesting #shotsfired

 

[isildurrrr1]

Advantages should be buying a $200k Audi or renting out the whole of Hilton Hotel for a day. Advantages shouldn't include doing a "diploma" that only you get to do and no one else does, which puts you into a course which otherwise you would have had 0 chance at getting into.

Or just do the TPP like everyone else or go to foundations just like anyone else with money... The logic behind choosing scots is prahlly most of their students can afford the 12k fees rather than some kid at a public school.

 

[engineering]

If you want the real story, rather than the beat up in the press, than look at what the university's academic board passed - see http://sydney.edu.au/ab/about/2015/AB_Mar15_agenda_supp.pdf, page 8 & 9.

The Diploma of Tertiary Preparation is a legitimate entry pathway for students into university, particularly for students who had a poor HSC or didnt do it at all (for whatever reason). However there was an unintended loophole in the previous rules that allowed a young person of school age to do the DTP instead of the HSC and use the DTP as the entry qualification. By closing this loophole, the university is sending a message that young people of school age should be doing the HSC as the pathway to uni. Any person (not just a Scots boy) could have used this entry pathway until the uni changed its policy.