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Well you'll obviously need to Dux, and then some. But it'll come down to externals, which is a lot of stress..

If you're aiming for 98, that is possible. It just comes down to whether you manage to perform during the externals. It's not a comfortable 98, so you will need to continue to work hard. Good luck!

CS and Software Engineering together? Maybe consider one or the other, both together is redundant since they are very similar and offer identical job outcomes

For chem, you need 98 to state rank, 99 is typically first in state. And yeah you need to be ranked first internally

I can kinda see it

This 100% There aren't any S-tier unis in Australia (in terms of reputation), unlike in the US where you have MIT/Stanford/CMU/UC Berkeley/Georgia Tech/Caltech etc.. for engineering/cs. So you can't rely on your uni to do the heavy lifting. It comes down to what you've accomplished on your CV...

Oh and do not underestimate how much of a pain trimesters are - it is such a hassle to organise holidays with friends from UNSW that often they just get excluded unless it's the summer holidays. Everyone else is normal but UNSW

USYD and UNSW are basically equivalent. UTS is up and coming but not quite on the same level reputationally, albeit definitely a comfortable 3rd for engineering in NSW. No employer is gonna be like, oh, you go to USYD/UNSW, let's hire you. It's more like, oh you go to one of those unis, I can...

True, but no one can really plan to become CEO

It isn't if you go into patent law for example, but otherwise it's a huge time investment

State rank is based on HSC mark, not external mark. If you mean absolutely crush the external exam and bring up a low internals mark, then yes, it's an average so just bring either up and ur good

Yeah, when it comes to employability/research, UNSW is better. USYD is also good. The Shanghai rankings are the only rankings that rate UTS so highly, can't be bothered looking into their selection criteria to figure out why.

You can model stuff - great for people working in finance, research, machine learning, data science etc..

You ignore the outlier and then take the average. The outlier is the one that is significantly greater than the other ones. Typically this is the first as its the "rough" run, but not always

What assignments? If they aren't counted as part of your internals mark, they are inconsequential to your ATAR

What year, what science

UTS is possibly better when it comes to reputation specifically for IT. However, you are right to consider the environment - you'll be spending most of your time there. Ultimately, the uni you pick isn't the deciding factor, both are good unis. It comes down entirely to you, i.e. its on you to...

A lot of people regret studying Commerce at uni (basically they complain its poorly taught and essentially common sense anyways). But this is me saying this, so ask around - try to see if you can get into contact with people studying cs + commerce If you want to get into data sci, Comp Sci +...

Bump, I just opened 1 spot for Chemistry or Biology :)

biomedical because I'm interested in studying medicine later on. but if mechatronics interests you that seems to be the best for employability atm