a) I really want to do biomed/law because I want to see if I'm interested in law but everyone I've talked to has been against this option (1. course is 5 years, 2. law is "too much", 3. weird combo to score high enough in)
1. Course time shouldn't be a limiting factor if you're truly passionate about doing the course.
2. This can be dependent on the person, because everyone has different strengths and weaknesses.
I'm having a bit of trouble deciding which degree will provide me the best pathway to med but if that doesn't work out, which one will provide me the best employment outcome.
a) I really want to do biomed/law because I want to see if I'm interested in law but everyone I've talked to has been against this option (1. course is 5 years, 2. law is "too much", 3. weird combo to score high enough in)
b) biomed
c) science
d) Melb Biomed (but I'm a bit hesitant in picking this because of the super competitive environment)
Studying Melb Biomed would exclude you from Monash's postgrad med course, as Monash postgrad med only takes Monash undergrad students. I don't know whether the 'super competitive environment' point in (d) is true, so I won't speak about that. As for employment opportunities, depending on your personal preferences and what you wind up studying (majors, minors, experience, etc.), all of these degrees offer some good employment opportunities.
My goal is to keep my WAM high enough so I do the UCAT and transfer to Med in interstate unis.
It seems less common to see this than see people try for postgrad med using the GAMSAT and weighted undergrad grades on AN. I don't know much about this though.
Also is the biomed discovery scholarship offered to biomed/law students because the requirements say 98 atar which is the cutoff for biomed/law?
Upon my 2 minutes of research, I found
this site about the Biomed Discovery Scholarship. If this is right, you'll only be able to get the Biomed Discovery Scholarship if you're enrolled/ intent on enrolling in the specific
BBiomed Sci (Scholar Program) course and satisfy all the other requirements, which means you
probably have to put this course as Preference #1 in your VTAC application (please check directly with the uni). It's less likely that you'll get one if you're doing a BBiomed/Law. I'd check if this completely excludes you though.