Off to University Soon

What can I say? Nothing we say or do will turn back time. My little baby is now heading off to Uni.

GI took his High School Certificate (HSC) exams last October for his chosen HS courses (subjects). All of the year 12 students in Australia who are interested in going to college have to take their HSC exams. The scores they get are used to calculate their ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank), which is what is used by institutions to rank and select school leavers for admission. The ATAR is a rank that allows comparison of students who have completed different combinations of HSC courses. A student may seem like an average student at his current high school but he could be much better when compared with other students from other schools. The ATAR sort of evens out the playing field across schools since depending on your chosen HS courses, you take the same HSC exams.

The students are supposed to indicate their top ten choices of courses and schools, then depending on your ATAR, you may or may not get offered by the institution of your choice.

GI's first choice was Bachelor of Science in Information Technology at UTS, City Campus and he got his offer yesterday. (Hurrah for GI!)

On the same day, his first cousin got HIS offer for the course of his choice (Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Music) at Macquarie University and the daughter of a good friend got HER offer in Biomedical Science at University of Western Australia over at Perth. After I shared the news of GI getting his offer, another good friend relayed that her son passed the entrance exams for UP Diliman, Ateneo and UST.

Hip, hip, hurrah! Hip, hip, hurrah! Hip, hip, hurrah!

This calls for celebration.

Good luck to our college kids.