These Awards are provided to encourage academically gifted local Higher School Certificate (HSC) students from NSW and ACT high schools to undertake undergraduate study at UNSW. NSW and ACT High School Principals were asked to nominate the School's top student, based on the average of available academic results for years 11 and 12. This is thought to be the only scheme in NSW based on nomination by the school.

An Academic Achievement Award (AAA) comprises:
• The presentation of a Nomination Certificate to each AAA nominee
• A single payment of $4,000 upon following confirmation of enrolment at UNSW

At the graduation ceremony at Taylors College on 28th September Lee Hai Fang was presented with an Academic Achievement Award having been nominated by the College. She hopes to enrol in Optometry in 2007 following her sister Lee Hai Mei who completed Optometry in 2005 and now practises in Bondi Junction.

The Nomination Certificate was presented by Professor Stephen Dain, Head of the School of Optometry and Vision Science, UNSW.