Twenty years on, three women who topped their classes in Year 12 have found that learning how to fail is just as important as celebrating success. While they all have glamorous careers and degrees from the world’s top universities, life has not been all straight As and open doors. By the time Ceridwen Dovey got her HSC results, she had already been accepted into Harvard University on a scholarship. The year was 1998, and the South African-born student collapsed in a heap in the Sydney apartment she shared with her sister. “In some ways I have never worked again as hard as I did in that year,” Ms Dovey, now an author, said. She was enrolled at North Sydney Girl’s High School and her academic parents monitored their lives while they were teaching in South Africa. Ms Dovey was sent Down Under from South Africa aged 15 to complete her studies, and her aptitude for hard work has continued throughout her career. She managed to not only complete the HSC but also sit the American Suite of Assessments (SATs) which made her eligible to head to the United States for university. ‘Stop studying so much’ Around the corner from Ms… Read full this story
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