A north-west student has been rewarded for putting in the hard yards, both in class and on public transport.
Hillside’s Victor Lin achieved his high school’s perfect score, recording an Australian Tertiary Admission Rank of 99.5 at Melbourne Grammar School.
It’s just reward for early-morning rises and sacrifice, and Lin now has his sights on studying biomedicine at Melbourne University after excelling in chemistry, Latin, literature, philosophy and specialist maths.
“I had to travel an hour and 15 minutes every day to get to school,” he said. “Some days I was up at 6am. Luckily, the University of Melbourne is a little closer to home.”
The 18-year-old was a bit of an all-rounder in 2013, combining his studies with table tennis, chess and soccer. He is also a member of the Debating Association of Victoria.
“I had no specific motivation, I just wanted to do well,’’ he said.
“I was expecting to get a high score, but not that high.”
