Georgia Cadzow is in her graduating year at a Melbourne high school. While about 200,000 other year 12 students across Australia are enduring an intense period of pressure in the next few weeks, for her the experience is different.

For one thing she is not facing a block of high-stakes exams. Even though she's still in school, she's also been at Swinburne University of Technology a day each week this year, studying two units which interest her in forensic psychology and statistics.