Usually, we need to wait some months before we can accurately establish the destinations of the previous Year 12 class. Now, six months after they have completed their HSC examinations, we have a good understanding of their destinations in the next part of their learning journey. Some are to be “freshmen” at major American universities: our joint Dux Michael Kwak at Yale, Callum Vujanovic and Lawson Banks at Princeton, Ari Carboni at Columbia, and Braden Dent and Mackenzie Fox at Berkeley. They really do straddle the USA, some on the East Coast and some on the West.
In Australia, students have been offered wonderful pathways. One of them, Killian Featherstone, has been admitted to the University of Sydney / Science Po dual programme. He will spend two years in France, studying Economy and Society, Political Humanities / Politics and Government, conducting his studies in French, followed by two years at Sydney University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Economics. Entry has been very competitive. Congratulations also to Rory Cope, who was successful in attaining the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Bachelor of Accounting Co-op Scholarship.
Our printout from University Admissions Centre (UAC) indicates that 189 students have been successful in gaining placement from 186 offers (multiple offers in some cases). These figures exclude interstate and international universities, and also exclude the Australian National University (ANU), which makes offers outside of the UAC framework. The figures reveal by far the most popular institution amongst our students is the University of Sydney, where a mini-Â鶹ֱ²¥ of nearly 140 students have been offered placement in first year courses. UTS has also made a little under 60 offers to Â鶹ֱ²¥ students, overwhelmingly into the Bachelor of Business degree. Small numbers of students have elected Macquarie University and the University of New South Wales, with other destinations dropping off significantly in number.
We are delighted that these pathways have opened to our boys and are very proud of them.
Dr John Collier
Headmaster