a gym, or trips to Tuscany, or anything like that. It was just like every other school (except for the fact we had to attend Chapel every day, which I also despised!!! And 5 years of doing that never converted me to Christianity, interestingly!) I feel like a big reason why law degree's, medical degree's and other degree's with extreamely high UAI's are filled with private school students, is because the HSC system favours them over public school students. The HSC ranks schools according to their average marks, so considering that private schools are more likely to have higher average marks than public schools, a student who gets a 60 UAI in a priate school will get their marks pulled up considerably just because their class has a higher average mark than a public school. That means that a public school student who gets exactly the same marks as a private school student will get a lower mark than the private school student considering that the average mark in a public school is likely to be lower than in a private school. That's my understanding of the system anyway. Very unfair. I went to semi private school, which i think was pretty decent. I have a friend who went to a public highschool and says that he was absolutely disgusted with the quality of teaching and the behaviour of the students. He felt that he wasn't being taught anything, there was no structure and that they were treated like primary