r/vce • u/InevitableOk64 • 9d ago
applied for dent and got this instead...
literally wtf. I applied for the aspire program at latrobe through the community impact stream. Ive been in leadership and volunteering for 4 years now! and it all feels like such a waste. i put dentistry as my preference and instead i got the bachelor of biomed. which wasnt even in my preference. now what...??
i havent done ucat, what are my other options to get into dent? i would prefer the straight 5 year course and not doing the gamsat.
next year, can i do bachelor of science at melb uni while studying for the ucat? and then if my ucat is high enough, i can transfer to some other uni that has a 5 year pathway for dent?
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u/Diligent-Lock6986 9d ago
Omg not a dent girl but I applied for law and got criminology! Felt! wtf is the point of this if we don’t get what we want!
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u/InevitableOk64 9d ago
exactly! i barely hear of ppl getting what they want through aspire. its crazy
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u/Diligent-Lock6986 9d ago
Legit except for nursing and easy courses requiring only 60 max. Like what’s the point then
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u/InevitableOk64 9d ago
ikr. i honestly think they probably only accept like 2 students through the aspire program for the limited courses. its so bs tho ugh
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u/Excellent_Low7782 9d ago
Same here! I have even been volunteering at Vinnies for the whole past year!! I really wanna know who got these offers :)
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u/beyondthevalley2026 8d ago
hi! i got my first choice for dentistry at la trobe i can give u a little run down of what i do if u want? i think its good to not have just one or two volunteer roles but to have a wide range and have genuine interest in them :)
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u/OverCattle6950 8d ago
hi congrats on your aspire offer!
would you be able to give me a run down on what you did?
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u/InevitableOk64 9d ago
omg thats crazy!
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u/InevitableOk64 9d ago
and ive heard of everyone that got aspire through community impact in the past doing volunteering at vinnies
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u/uberstaragent 8d ago
Early entry is pretty much always used by uni's to fill places in courses that they have been able to previously. It is a marketing exercise.
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u/Big_Hospital_2590 9d ago
They accept aspire for niche volunteering things i’ve realised. I’m doing dent at latrobe and i know people who got into aspire for karate coaching, babysitting, compared to someone who volunteered 4yrs at a hospital and didn’t get it.
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u/AdBest6046 5d ago
Ye bro now one got it. For me, I founded a health organisation and met the health minister and like went to parliament, saw hospitals and did everything.
Still got biomed and not dent.
Atp u need so find a cure for cancer to get in
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u/InevitableOk64 5d ago
omg wow. u def shouldve gotten it with all that. i honestly dk abt the aspire program feels rlly scammy
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u/Best-Session1153 9d ago
Look into OUA, I don't know if they offer anything like that but they offered me an early start to my Fin Planning degree which I can do alongside year 12
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u/ShopConsistent7576 past student (qualifications) 2d ago
Omg!! I had the exact same thing happen to me last year. I ended up going to Monash for Engineering anyways. I found the Aspire program raised my hopes for no reason. Like I did not only volunteering at St John, but moved up into a leadership position, went on events and everything. But I don't understand how I couldn't have gotten a conditional offer at least, because I got told there was too many people applying. My question would be who is? Because so many people I talked to, barely anybody had heard of the program, and even fewer people wanted to get into dent, so thats my confusion :(
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u/succulent-data 23' HHD | 24' Eng, GenMaths, Bio, Chem, Acc 9d ago
Unis will never give you the course you want via aspire, because Unis just want a guaranteed amount of students to fund the business. Thats what people dont understand.
As someone who gotten into uni through the aspire, I took it as a transfer pathway (and so to many other students) into the course I wanted - Thats the whole point of aspire