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Re: Government House Invite
« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2014, 10:41:47 am »
Quote from: Alwin on January 17, 2014, 08:38:18 am
Yeh, I'm kinda curious too :P

For everyone on this this thread that's invited (I'm not lol, no surprise there :))) they all have a few things in common:

1. At least one raw 50 (but there's soo many 50s eg just look at Further or English so I don't think it can be that)
2. All got above 99 ATAR (but again there'd be soo many 99+ ATARs I don't think it can be that either)
3. All did some sort of UMEP subjects getting 4.5+ (but yet quite a few in this catagory and had UMEP ceremony already)

This leads me to the conclusion.. It's for bery bery bery smart cookies :D

But my scores werent that amazing they were high, but not the best of the best, so I'm not sure how the invitations worked
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Re: Government House Invite
« Reply #16 on: January 17, 2014, 10:52:34 am »
My guess is probs people who will get a Premiers.
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Re: Government House Invite
« Reply #17 on: January 17, 2014, 10:53:58 am »
Hey guys!

I got this invite and was able to get onto them to ask what the reason was, turns out it's for being in the top 100 VCE Students in 2013 (Could be based on ATAR, aggregate or subject scores, but Alwin I didn't do uni extension and I got invited :P). It seems they invite different categories of people each year and this year they chose to invite us.

Quote from: thushan on January 17, 2014, 10:52:34 am
My guess is probs people who will get a Premiers.

We have been invited to the governor's australia day reception by the governor, I would assume premiers awards are from the premier :P

Anyway, if you did get this letter, congratulations and hopefully I'll see you all there :)

edit: merged my double post
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Re: Government House Invite
« Reply #18 on: January 17, 2014, 10:58:19 am »
There were some people got invited to the government house but didn't get premier's award nor the australian student prize. So I'm 100% sure it has nothing to do with the premiers award or the ASP
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Re: Government House Invite
« Reply #19 on: January 17, 2014, 11:08:04 am »
Wheeuff ^ I thought I missed out on a premier's award there already! :O
lol Thushan, I was just reading pretty much an identical thread from you 2011 boyz, discussing the reasons behind the invitations and you guys didn't manage to figure it out either XD
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Re: Government House Invite
« Reply #20 on: January 17, 2014, 11:08:44 am »
Hmm.

The people who didn't get premiers' -> did they get the All Round awards?

Also, yeah Premiers' Awards are given by premier; my theory was that they are decided much earlier and those students invited to Government House in addition.
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Re: Government House Invite
« Reply #21 on: January 17, 2014, 11:20:52 am »
Nah Thushan, I know for certain that yellow (this dude from melbourne high) didn't get any premier's awards but still got invited to the gov house.  But he did get 99.95 though... so maayyybe all 99.95s are included?
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Re: Government House Invite
« Reply #22 on: January 17, 2014, 11:24:17 am »
^If he got 99.95 though, I'm pretty confident he would have gotten the All Round Excellence award.

Edit: FWIW, I haven't gotten an invite, unless the mail took a while to get here (regional), in which case I'm checking the PO box today.
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Re: Government House Invite
« Reply #23 on: January 17, 2014, 11:41:23 am »
Not necessarily ~T :P Because you still have to get above 46 in like 5 of your subjects or something to get that award. There are many 99.95s who haven't achieved that :P
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Re: Government House Invite
« Reply #24 on: January 17, 2014, 11:43:15 am »
Quote from: ~T on January 17, 2014, 11:24:17 am
^If he got 99.95 though, I'm pretty confident he would have gotten the All Round Excellence award.

Edit: FWIW, I haven't gotten an invite, unless the mail took a while to get here (regional), in which case I'm checking the PO box today.

I have two friends who got 99.95 and would not qualify for the All Round Excellence award. I also know people who didn't get 99.95 but got All Rounders.
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Re: Government House Invite
« Reply #25 on: January 17, 2014, 11:47:00 am »
Quote from: lzxnl on January 17, 2014, 11:43:15 am
I have two friends who got 99.95 and would not qualify for the All Round Excellence award. I also know people who didn't get 99.95 but got All Rounders.
Yeah, I've known plenty of the latter but I guess I didn't really think too hard about the mathematics of the former. Four ~50s in your primary scores with Spec or LOTE and you're pretty much set, regardless of your 10% scores. Point taken.
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Re: Government House Invite
« Reply #26 on: January 17, 2014, 11:50:38 am »
I got one too! At first I thought it was just random selection but my friend who got 99.90 also got one so we figured it was ATAR related?
It'll be great to meet everyone  :)
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Re: Government House Invite
« Reply #27 on: January 17, 2014, 12:52:44 pm »
Quote from: Alwin on January 17, 2014, 08:38:18 am
Yeh, I'm kinda curious too :P

For everyone on this this thread that's invited (I'm not lol, no surprise there :))) they all have a few things in common:

1. At least one raw 50 (but there's soo many 50s eg just look at Further or English so I don't think it can be that)
2. All got above 99 ATAR (but again there'd be soo many 99+ ATARs I don't think it can be that either)
3. All did some sort of UMEP subjects getting 4.5+ (but yet quite a few in this catagory and had UMEP ceremony already)

This leads me to the conclusion.. It's for bery bery bery smart cookies :D

Er... I got an invite and do not fulfil any of the aforesaid. But maybe I am just a sympathy invite - whoo, free and undeserved food!

Oh, and what would be a 'day dress' appropriate for the event?
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Re: Government House Invite
« Reply #28 on: January 17, 2014, 02:43:49 pm »
Quote from: Greenwindingtree on January 17, 2014, 12:52:44 pm
Er... I got an invite and do not fulfil any of the aforesaid. But maybe I am just a sympathy invite - whoo, free and undeserved food!

Oh, and what would be a 'day dress' appropriate for the event?

i think its a suit for guys, and a dress for girls, but not a tux or a formal dress
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Re: Government House Invite
« Reply #29 on: January 17, 2014, 03:42:36 pm »
whenever i want to understand a dresscode, I go straight to google images. EG Smart casual =
Spoiler

but yeah the invite said a day dress so I'd just get an idea from google images :)
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