Does anyone go to Mac.rob

[vea]

Well, Mac.Rob has an exceptional cohort this year (6 olympiad scholars, 2 team members, NMSS participants, NYSF participants, MUNA national winners...) so we should get rank 1... unless everyone gets lazy.

I still think that Mac.Rob will win over MHS any year just because of the fact that girls generally get higher average scores compared to boys. Those olympiad positions and stuff you listed just make Mac.Rob sound so much godlier ahah.

[AzureBlue]

Well, Mac.Rob has an exceptional cohort this year (6 olympiad scholars, 2 team members, NMSS participants, NYSF participants, MUNA national winners...) so we should get rank 1... unless everyone gets lazy.

I still think that Mac.Rob will win over MHS any year just because of the fact that girls generally get higher average scores compared to boys. Those olympiad positions and stuff you listed just make Mac.Rob sound so much godlier ahah.

Last year, Mt Scopus > Melb High > MacRob > everything else...
Year before last, however, MacRob > Ruyton > Melb High > Scopus

[Tashi]

I don't think Ruyton beat MHS.. not sure though

[appianway]

Mac.Rob coming 3rd was an anomaly... from the long run of coming 1st.

[AzureBlue]

Mac.Rob coming 3rd was an anomaly... from the long run of coming 1st.

yeah true

[taiga]

I'm pretty sure a school does not ride it's results on 10 people.

The boys and girls who get the 39s and 40s also bring up the median score, judging a school off a few of it's elite students does not say much for the entire cohort.

Though I do think MHS class of 2010 will give MacRob a good run.

Truetears, it's just friendly competition that you always get between the two schools, not cockiness.

Also MacRob tends to beat MHS every year as MHS instakes 334 students, wheras MacRob only takes in 230 or something. We have an extra 104 students generally ranked lower than any student at MacRob on the entrance exam (I know it doesn't work exactly like that, but you get my gist), so it is amazing if in any year MHS does beat MacRob

Similarly that's why an accelerated cohort at a school like Balwyn will generally always do better on average that both MHS and Macrob.

I assume the standard of teaching/study ethic at places like Mt. Scopus is just straight up excellent though.

[EvangelionZeta]

This is the obligatory "MGS got a median of 93.95 last year, with 31 perfect study scores, 32 99+ ENTER scores and 7 perfect ENTERs" post.  For an almost entirely non-selective school (even if it's private), that's pretty godly (and also a massive anomaly from what we usually get...).

Of course, MacRob and MHS still beat us.  :p

[AzureBlue]

This is the obligatory "MGS got a median of 93.95 last year, with 31 perfect study scores, 32 99+ ENTER scores and 7 perfect ENTERs" post.  For an almost entirely non-selective school (even if it's private), that's pretty godly (and also a massive anomaly from what we usually get...).
Of course, MacRob and MHS still beat us.  :p

Yeah MGS always gets so many (the most?) perfect ENTERs each year! In Scopus last year, the highest ENTER was 99.85 with 25 perfect study scores. But the average was really good: 17% of the cohort achieving ENTER scores of 99 or more, 51% achieving over 95...

[appianway]

I think schools like MGS attract a lot of the very top performers, but don't always have best averages. SGS is like that too... the top male students in Sydney usually apply for scholarships irrespective of their financial background.

[AzureBlue]

I think schools like MGS attract a lot of the very top performers, but don't always have best averages. SGS is like that too... the top male students in Sydney usually apply for scholarships irrespective of their financial background.

I'm guessing James Ruse is normally the highest performer in terms of HSC in Sydney?

[appianway]

Yes. Really high median. Although Ruse tend to draw a lot of the very top students as well... they all flock to Grammar and Ruse...

[iffets12345]

And what do you, macrob traditionalists, think of monash and russell? success or bomb?=]

[appianway]

Russel? Do you mean Nossal?

Eh. It's too early to judge. I think there are some problems at John Monash though - it's very laissez-faire.

[iffets12345]

oops my bad.
hmm... laissez-faire could go both ways since they are supposed to be intelligent, resourceful students. However you have a point.

[AzureBlue]

Yes. Really high median. Although Ruse tend to draw a lot of the very top students as well... they all flock to Grammar and Ruse...

But schools like MacRob, MHS, and Ruse are selective, so naturally they get the top students...