<p>I can only speak for Uni of Melbourne buuuuuuut:</p>
<p>There’s a lot of ethnic diversity - many Asian/Indian students - though nobody lives on campus other than interstate/international students. People are very friendly yet there isn’t the social scene on campus like any American colleges.</p>
<p>It’s fairly close to the ocean, though for fairly nice beaches you have to go a bit further around the bay and if you want surf it’s a good hours drive. </p>
<p>In terms of entrance, it IS most based off of your ATAR, which is a solely Australian based thing, similar to what you might do in terms of APs. I’d imagine that your SAT would not be of much impact on admissions, so focus on GPA/APs. Depending on what you want to study, it’s good to have done AP classes given that is a similar standard to Australian high school - especially in calculus and chemistry.</p>