STUDENTS from the Wimmera’s class of 2016 who aim to go to university face a nervous wait ahead of the release of course offers on Wednesday afternoon.
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Horsham College 2016 dux Lochie Bull’s plans for the next five years rest on his course offers.
“My first preference is commerce at Melbourne Uni, which would be three years, then a masters of engineering, which is two to three years,” he said.
“I don’t want to do just commerce, that’s why my second preference is a double degree - commerce and engineering - at Monash Uni.”
Brimpaen’s Catherine Chincarini was the dux of Hamilton’s Monivae College as a boarding student and has put in for arts at the University of Melbourne or arts and law at Monash.
“I think I’ll be a bit more nervous on Wednesday. It’s not as nerve-wracking as waiting for the ATAR, but it is important,” she said.
“The offers will have a big impact on your career path, so I think I will be waiting on Wednesday.
“I have been busy with work so that has been a distraction from it.”
Lochie is also keeping busy.
“I’ll probably working up until February when uni starts,” he said.
“I’ve been working on the harvest in grain receivables out there in the bunkers. It’s pretty hot and hard going but I need to save money.
“I was hoping to do a GAP year but I could get a scholarship and I shouldn’t pass that up.”
Lochie was also not as nervous for this round of results.
“I’m probably more nervous waiting for the scholarship than the offer. I’m not as nervous as I was waiting for my ATAR,” he said.
“I have a brother who is doing aerospace engineering so I’m not sure I want to follow directly, maybe mechatronics or aerospace.”
About 40 per cent of rural Victorian year 12 students go to university. Catherine said a lot of her friends were waiting to hear about their accommodation options for the academic year.
“I know it will be on their minds. Some of them have already received accommodation offers so they are dependent on getting the course,” she said.
Catherine has received a good indication she will be accepted into a residential college at Melbourne.
“It’s a good thing to have, being from the country,” she said.
“I should hear about the course, accommodation and scholarship on one big day.”