Graduate destinations
Throughout the end of the academic year and over the summer holidays, our team of Careers practitioners were busy supporting our 2023 graduates with their VTAC applications for tertiary courses. It is always a busy time, with students eagerly awaiting their ATARs and each subsequent offer round. The realities of this period see us celebrating the utter joy and relief felt by those who receive their first preference course in the first offer round. As well, there is mentoring graduates to manage their emotions and help them to traverse the best course options when they don’t quite get the ATAR or pre-requisite study score that they needed, to ensure they can follow a pathway into their dream course. It can be a character-building time in a young person’s life and we support our students to draw on their Mercy values to meet the challenge.
We are pleased to share with you that 25 students secured apprenticeships to start their trade journeys and all of our students who had their sights set on tertiary courses have received an offer to commence their undergraduate studies this year. We had 77% of our tertiary bound students receive their first or second course preference as of the January offer round. Just yesterday we had even more students receive their first preference course in the third offer round, with a further round still to come.
The largest proportion of our 2023 graduate students accepted offers from Swinburne University of Technology, with an even trend of offers from Deakin University, RMIT, Monash University, La Trobe University and Australian Catholic University (ACU). We were pleased to see the regional and cultural relationships established with La Trobe and ACU again offering our students a selection rank advantage. Our students are going on to study a vast range of courses such as the Health Sciences, Biomedicine, Education, Radiology, Engineering, Exercise and Sport Science, Commerce, Architecture, Conservation, IT, Law, Aviation, Media Communication, Fashion, Fine Arts and Performing Arts.
At MLMC we encourage our students to consider their career as their story, with a call to be ‘the difference,’ a force of good in the world. We look forward to seeing how our 2023 graduates’ stories unfold in the years to come.
Contacting the Careers department
Our team of Careers practitioners includes myself (email to trundle@mlmc.vic.edu.au), Mrs Jo-Anne Hopkins-Goding (jhopkins@mlmc.vic.edu.au), Mrs Jennifer Morison (jmorison@mlmc.vic.edu.au) and Mrs Emily Farso (efarso@mlmc.vic.edu.au).
We are available to provide career counselling, assistance with tertiary applications and up-to-date career information. Students can come to our Careers department to request a booking time with Careers secretary Mrs Nives Gamble (careers@mlmc.vic.edu.au) — during recess or lunchtime for McAuley Students and during study periods for our senior students.
If you are a parent or guardian wanting to support your child by clarifying the requirements of, for instance, pathway and subject selections, tertiary courses or Work Experience, you are also more than welcome to attend a booking with your child.
Year 10 Work Experience reminder
All Year 10 students will be completing their General Microcredential on Tuesday 6 February. Crucial for success in this online written test is completing the pre-reading of the online modules beforehand. These modules can be found HERE. Parents are asked to please encourage your teenager to make this pre-reading a priority over the weekend as no student can participate in Work Experience if they do not successfully complete this test.
If you are a MLMC parent who is willing to take on a Year 10 Work Experience student, please contact the College and we thank you in advance for your support.
