I was reading through and it says for the bachelor science, do I have to transfer from science to biomed if that’s the case?
Yeah it would be.
And also, how would that work with my VTAC application?
If you want pretty much the majority of possible tertiary courses in Victoria (e.g. uni, TAFE, some specialist courses), then you'll have to apply via VTAC (not the uni directly). You can apply for up to 8 courses, which you do by:
1. Make an account with VTAC and pay the fee as soon as you can to avoid the late fees. Your school should be helping you through making an account soon, if not already.
2. Input your details, documentation and applications as necessary. (Scholarships and special consideration sometimes require documents or applications via VTAC or through your desired institute(s).)
3. Pick your preferences - this is where you'd pick up to 8 courses as your preferences. The higher the preference, the more you want that course. If you want to study Biomed at UoM the most, then put Biomed at UoM as your Preference #1. (Note that some courses require more than just ATAR for entry. In these cases, you might be required to provide a portfolio, do an interview/ performance, and/or take a test e.g. UCAT for medicine/ some health sciences. You will be notified if this is the case, but you should also do your research to check if they do. Some of these extra requirements happen earlier e.g. UCAT must be sat at certain times of the year.)
4. You wait. Once it gets to the deadlines for offers, you'll be ranked against everyone else who has put that as a preference and the uni will decide whether they want to give you an offer. Many unis might give you more than one offer, but you'll only know what the highest successful offer is. For example, if you put Biomed at UoM as Preference #1, Science at UoM as Preference #2 and Biomed at La Trobe as Preference #3. Let's just say that UoM doesn't give you an offer for Biomed, but wants to give you an offer for Science and La Trobe also gives you an offer for Biomed. In this case, you'll only know that you received an offer for your Preference #2 - Science at UoM via VTAC, since this was the highest preference you received an offer from, if that makes sense.
5. You can change your preferences around during selected times between offer rounds. Yeah, there's multiple rounds of offers, so you're allowed to switch courses around before/ after each round, but note that as each round passes, it gets much more difficult to get an offer for a higher preference as the spots fill up quick. Also note that only higher preferences will be considered, so if you get offered Preference #1 in Round 1 but have decided to switch directions between Rounds 1 and 2, then you need to change your preferences before the deadline for Round 2 to be considered for it in that round.
6. If you are OK with your offered course, you'll accept the offer, regardless of if you want to take a gap year or defer (temporarily pause) your course. For some institutes, accepting the offer means you'll be enrolling into that institute and/or course. You can still switch courses if you receive a better offer later on and won't have to pay any fees unless you switch/ ditch that course after a certain date (known as the census date), which is usually a few weeks after you begin that course.
7. Start the course or wait until it starts.
with the atar I achieve, do they also take that into consideration?
VTAC automatically uses your ATAR + special consideration (where applicable) to give you an offer. Each institute you put as a preference will cull students who don't fulfil any prerequisites for each course (e.g. you won't be considered for Biomed at UoM if you haven't done Methods/Spesh) and individually rank students according to ATAR + special consideration (SEAS) + any other adjustment factors that that institute has that applies to you (e.g. Access Melbourne, for La Trobe subject bonuses) and they will then report whether or not they want to give you an offer to VTAC. From your VTAC account (and the email you make your VTAC account with), you'll later on be notified of your successful offer(s).