Hi there,
If your ATAR is lower than what is needed to enter a course, you have options:
- pick a course that is the same as the one you wanted to do at a different university, and transfer after a semester / year
- pick a course at the same university as your desired course, and transfer after a semester / year
- complete a diploma (usually a year long) at your desired university and transfer to your desired course. Pretty much every uni has a diploma you can do, which after completing, you have a pathway to enter.
Other unis you can consider for biomedical science besides Deakin are La Trobe, Federation University, Australian Catholic University, and Victoria University. You can get into biomedical science anywhere (even Melbourne and Monash), but you may need to take a path that's a tiny bit longer than standard entry from high school.
For example, to get into La Trobe's biomedicine course, you can do a Diploma of Biosciences. The Diploma of Biosciences is an 8 month course from La Trobe College (part of La Trobe university). You can do this straight out of VCE. After completing it, you go into the second year biomedicine.
Also, Victoria University's biomedical science course does not need an ATAR to get into it.
Here's a diagram of this information:
There's always a way to get to your desired career. Don't give up!
Hope this helps