Hey VC2020!
Welcome to ATAR Notes :)
Congrats on completing a 3/4 subject last year! No matter what score you got, doing so is an excellent achievement.
I see the courses you've listed are quite different to each other. I have some questions for you:
- Out of the courses you've listed, what kind of course interests you the most?
- What subjects do you enjoy currently?
- What are the pros and cons of each, in your opinion?
- What do you want to get out of uni?
It is likely to be competitive to transfer across unis, but it is definitely not impossible! However, there are a variety of ways to gain entry to UniMelb's biomed course without completing methods that aren't transferring. You can see those options by clicking here (takes you to UniMelb's prerequisites website). Doing the Calculus and Probability Online course can get you into the course from the beginning without having to do a single unit study of maths in another course and it's shorter than the other options - something to consider.
Some of the advantages of choosing Biomed plus some info about undergraduate Dentistry - this is a bit of a long one!
Choosing biomed can help you keep your options open a bit more due to the selection of majors. Studying biomed would make it easier to choose postgraduate physio, law, education, vet med, dentistry, psychology or even something in commerce depending on what units (subjects) you choose to undertake during your degree. re: Your comment about specialisation in dentistry - Doing undergraduate dentistry would give you more of a guaranteed pathway into specialisation as you don't have biomed as an extra hurdle. AFAIK, the only unis that offer dentistry in Victoria are La Trobe and UniMelb. UniMelb's dentistry course is a postgraduate one, and requires you to do an undergraduate degree in any discipline, as well as the prerequisite subjects and the GAMSAT. You might be able to do the prerequisite subjects in any degree (as part of the breadth component), but those also have prerequisites which you could take as part of your non-breadth subjects, depending on the course you do. With La Trobe's dentistry course, there's the option of doing a biology bridging course to satisfy the biology prerequisite. There are also undergraduate dentistry courses around Australia if this is something that you would like to / can do.
the only thing really stopping me from going into the course of biomed is the competition
By this, do you mean the competition within the course or the competition for entry to the course? If it's the latter, it shouldn't stop you from trying. Competition within the course shouldn't stop you from studying what you want to study. Perhaps you could try the course out and transfer to another course if you dislike any aspect of it?
This is a lot of information to take in! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions / concerns :)
Hope this helps :)