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DANA: My name is Dana Abu-Geras.
KONRAD: Hi, I'm Konrad, I'm from Collie.
ALI: I graduated from Clarkson Community High School.
TRAVIS: I'm from Kent Street Senoir High School and currently studying Sports Science.
GISELLE: This is my first year at UWA.
COURTNEY: I'm in my final year of Commerce and it's pretty awesome.
GISELLE: One of the ladies from my school and she asked me if I wanted to join this
group called Fairway.
ALI: A lot of students, y'know, face a lot of things in their lives during Year 12...
KONRAD: Uh, students that may have not been thinking about it before... for numerous reasons...
ALI: The university recognises that those students can successfully complete their degrees...
DANA: ... and do what they want to do.
GISELLE: We had our first camp, our Summer Camp, and we came here for, like I think,
a week...
KONRAD: ... give them a little taste of uni life...
TRAVIS: The mentors are just students who are studying here...
GISELLE: They seemed very encouraging, and they seemed like they believed in us already
DANA: ... just someone you could relate back to who can answer your questions...
COURTNEY: ... to suddenly see a hundred odd students and know that they're going through
the same thing.
KONRAD: when they do go to university, they'll already have a large cohort of friends
DANA: You want support there's lots of people to help you out.
COURTNEY: Fairway is there for the whole year.
DANA: There's tutoring
GISELEL: You just go to the website, it is really helpful...
TRAVIS: There's MyTutor... an online program that helped with studies
DANA: Then coming to university and having that ongoing support
KONRAD: A pathway into uni allowing you to get in with a slightly lower ATAR
TRAVIS: ...Which sort of took the stress off me and probably let me get better marks because
I wasn't stressing about exams
KONRAD: There's a lot of scholarships out there for a lot of different reasons.
COURTNEY: It's, it's really well done and if they need it, then there's ways and avenues
they can find support
GISELLE: So it felt like we were not alone. Y'know, we had a group of people that are
there behind us, supporting us. I was ready to go into Year 12, and work as hard as I
can, and get into UWA.
KONRAD: Big dreams of the future, a successful career.
ALI: Get the experience here and then go overseas and help my country
KONRAD: Having the skills and a university degree, it makes you really employable, all...
anywhere over the world.
ALI: You'd never know you can't get to university unless you really looked into it.
KONRAD: If you're driven enough and ready to do the work, then, yeah, everything will
fall into place.
GISELLE: If you're in Year 12 or Year 11 and you feel like, y'know, you want to give up
and it's too hard... no, it's not that hard.
KONRAD: Look for all the opportunities, look for all the avenues you can take...
GISELLE: Uni is all about you as a person and you need to make the best of it. It's
up to you, it's in your hands. Y'know, you make the choice to pass or fail.
KONRAD: Definitely worth it. The experience you gain, the people you meet along the way.
Definitely worth it.
COURTNEY: I love it, I couldn't imagine myself anywhere else.
TRAVIS: Yeah, all the effort I put in was worth it, definitely, to get here.
GISELLE: When you get your ATAR, you would celebrate. And when I got mine, my Mum, she
ran around the house screaming, waking everyone up! She was so happy that I got into uni!
ALI: For me to even be at university and to have known these professors and these lecturers,
it's an honour for me
COURTNEY: I don't regret it for a second coming here.
DANA: I reckon for anyone that doesn't apply to Fairway, you're missing out.