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by bluebands 32 days ago
100% AI generated (and probably by someone affiliated with said team -- for the purposes of college apps)
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In Australia (at least 15 years ago) you sit your exams and get a score. The universities then set a minimum score for each program based on expected enrollment and capacity. If your score is above the program score, you're in automatically. You only go through the American style interviews if you come in slightly below the bar and are hoping for secondary consideration. These highschool students are probably going to have no problem with their scores, so this is a moot point.
Yanfu here - I'm one of the contributors.

I beg to differ here, respectfully. The core text, hero-sections and the background etc. were all designed manually by us. We used AI for the rest as a boilerplate. SO far our main target was not to build the website, and thus it was hastily set up. Our core systems is finished, you can look at our github page. We actually have a participant school ready for our delivery, and this Wednesday we have a meeting with them to discuss specifics. I will not disclose it right now but you will see soon enough in our social medias.

Also, about college apps: in Australia, we use the UAC to apply and it's solely based on our ATAR and not extracurriculars. So we are not just doing it for "college apps". Just to clarify.