Aspire is an initiative for undergraduate school leavers and non-Year 12 students. The program recognises the positive impact you’ve had on your community when assessing your application to study with us and rewards you with a conditional offer into a La Trobe degree as early as September. If you’re in Year 12, you’ll also be invited to be part of an exciting enrichment program designed to give you a head start with your university studies.

It’s difficult to say exactly how many students will be admitted through the Aspire program.

The community engagement component makes up a large part of the selection criteria, and the number of students admitted through Aspire will depend entirely on the strength of their submissions.

Not necessarily. A condition of your Aspire offer is that it must be your highest eligible preference through VTAC or UAC, which means that the course needs to be the highest one on your preference list for which you meet the requirements.

For example, if you’re made an Aspire offer for health sciences but would prefer to study physiotherapy, you should definitely place physiotherapy higher than health sciences on your preference list. You’ll receive an offer for physiotherapy if you meet the course requirements. If you don’t, you may still be eligible for health sciences through Aspire, since the course would be the highest one on your preference list for which you meet the requirements.

If you don’t get the ATAR needed to meet the conditions of your Aspire offer, it’s still possible to receive an offer for the course through the regular selection process. The reason for this is because the Aspire minimum ATAR requirements refer to "raw" scores (i.e. before bonuses are applied).

For example, say you receive an Aspire offer for the Bachelor of Business and get an ATAR of 46. While you wouldn’t meet the conditions of your Aspire offer, if you’re eligible for adjustment factors (such as SEAS), you may still receive an offer for the course through the regular selection process.