Change of Preference

Congratulations on receiving your Aspire conditional offer. Your Aspire offer is conditional upon formally confirming your Aspire offer by meeting the following requirements:

• successfully completing the VCE (or equivalent Australian Year 12 or International Baccalaureate) in 2024
• meeting the minimum Aspire ATAR for the course offered
• formally listing the course in your VTAC/UAC preferences list
• meeting all the course admission criteria (including subject prerequisites and any other selection requirements)
• Important: Ensure your course code, course name and campus in your Aspire offer email matches your highest eligible preference on your VTAC/UAC preference list (e.g. VTAC Course code: 2100320001, Course name: Bachelor of Business, Campus: Melbourne).

VTAC will start formalising offers from December 2024. The offer you receive will be for the course listed highest on your preference list that you've met all the criteria for. That means, if you receive an offer to a course that is higher on your preference list than your Aspire offer, that will become your formal offer.

Your Aspire offer is conditional, upon meeting the course requirements, which includes the following:

• successfully completing the VCE (or equivalent Australian Year 12 or International Baccalaureate) in 2024
• meeting the minimum Aspire ATAR for the course offered
• formally listing the course in your VTAC/UAC preferences list
• meeting all the course admission criteria (including subject prerequisites and any other selection requirements)
• Important: Ensure your course code, course name and campus in your Aspire offer email matches your highest eligible preference on your VTAC/UAC preference list (e.g. VTAC Course code: 2100320001, Course name: Bachelor of Business, Campus: Melbourne).

Confirmed Aspire offers will be released from December 2024 and January 2025.

To ensure you confirm your Aspire Conditional offer, list the course as your highest eligible preference on your VTAC Preference List, for which you meet all the admission criteria for. If you are eligible to receive an offer for a course listed higher on your preference list than your conditional Aspire offer, then you will receive that course as your round one offer. You may still be considered for your La Trobe course in subsequent rounds, through the normal selection process via VTAC/UAC.

No, your Aspire conditional offer will only be valid during first round of offers via VTAC/UAC.

Please note that you may still be eligible for your chosen La Trobe course in later rounds via the normal selection process through VTAC/UAC.

You may still be eligible by your ATAR naturally.

If not, you can utilise the standard VTAC Change of Preference period to outline pathways into your preferred course, and preference them in pathway order.

We have many pathways courses into your dream course here at La Trobe, and many of the pathways are a part of the 1^st year subjects of the course !

Aspire offers are based on raw ATARs, before any adjustment factors have been considered i.e SEAS, Subject scaling etc.

The year 12 results released in December/January, will display your raw ATAR and study scores.

Yes - deferral of your Aspire place is permitted provided that your course ordinarily allows deferral. Most courses will have the ability to defer for a maximum of one year, whereas others will a have an option to defer for one semester. For more information on deferral process please visit the deferral webpage.

Our current student support team, ASK La Trobe, are here to help all our current students. ASK La Trobe can assist you with everything from enrolment to deferral, timetabling, academic support, and everything in between.

Contact ASK La Trobe on 1300 528 726.

The Aspire Scholarships will be released from the first round of December offer rounds. The La Trobe Scholarships team will be in contact with the successful recipients via email.

To find out more about the scholarship and how it is awarded, visit Aspire scholarships.

Any student that received an Aspire conditional offer will be considered an Aspire student no matter what La Trobe course you enrolled in. All Aspire students will have access to the enrichment program.