Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs Minimum selection requirements usually remain steady from year-to-year but changes to a course’s popularity among prospective students can cause dramatic shifts.LoadingIn 2024, the minimum selection rank for Veterinary Nursing at La Trobe University’s Melbourne campus was 68.6, but this year that rose to 95.9.Conversely, last year’s minimum selection rank for a Creative Arts (Theatre major) at Deakin University’s Melbourne campus was 76.85. This year it was 60.25.But some courses, like Arts at the University of Melbourne – which recorded a minimum selection rank of 87 this year – Science at Monash University (82) and Nursing at Australian Catholic University’s Melbourne campus (65), are consistently in-demand among would-be students and regularly receive hundreds of first preference applications.LoadingMcKinnon Secondary College graduate Gisele Hennequin achieved an impressive ATAR of 98 from her VCE exams, so she knows she is off to uni next year, but will not be sure until Monday morning of where she is going.“My first preference is biomedicine at Melbourne,” she told The Age.A medical course is also on the shopping list for the 18-year-old, who has set her sights set on a career in psychology, but she said there were many potential ways to get there.“I’ve got biomedical studies at Monash as well, and then I’ve also got science degrees at both Melbourne and Monash and then, when I think further down the list, I have nursing and midwifery.”Any nerves ahead of Monday morning’s big news were manageable, Hennequin said.“I’m a little bit nervous, but I know that even if I don’t get my first preference, I’ve got a list of things that I would be happy doing,” she said.“It’s not the be all and end all, if I don’t get my first preference,” she said.
