Region Riverina
Track star Matilda Cole has secured a five-year scholarship with a US university. Photo: Wagga Wagga High School/Facebook.
Matilda Cole has just sat through her first HSC exam — English 1.
She’s also secured a five-year full ride to Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, as a Division I middle-distance runner, and believes there are other ways to succeed outside of your HSC.
The track star believes that hard work, dedication and aiming to be the best version of yourself should be what define your character, not the ATAR.
Like her friend Darrell Connellan , she thinks the ACT’s system, where results over a period of two years (Years 11 and 12) are calculated through continuous, school-based assessments and count towards the ATAR, may be better.
“There’s so many opportunities ou
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