So now you are discriminating by not only skin color but also by perceived difficulty of said course chosen? You could have gotten a 99.95 ATAR and done an ARTS degree. It does not make you dumb becuase of the degree you chose (in-fact you could say it makes you smart as you are doing something you want to do). By your own logic Matthew G, if you are so smart why are you not doing Medicine?
medicine is easier than engineering
medicine is easy, only hard part is getting into it. Every noob in the world wants to do medicine because they think they are going to be a filthy rich hero and save a million lives. Thats just crap, its the actual nurses that do the physical work , being a doctor is mainly paper work from what I have heard.
So UAC has to set the cut off for medicine real high to filter out all the people that think they are going to be a hero.
ATAR cutoff does not have anything to do with difficulty of degree or smarts required. Medicine and Law are usually the two highest cut offs, and yet they involve the least brains to pass