DD wants to be a Midwife, TER scores, Deakin or ACU?

Ok, DD is confirming her subjects for final year VCE and wants to be a Midwife.

What score does she need? The darling seems to think she only needs a pass in Maths and a certain score in English to get in. I'm sure its harder than that..

I've read back through some old posts is the TER score of 94 still correct?

So at ACU you do 3 yrs straight Mid, otherwise one year Nursing, 3 years Mid?

She will be attending various Open Days soon, so I suppose she will get more info there - I just think she isn't quite aware of the scores she needs....

Thanks for your help xoxo

Just signing up for this thread because DSD is interested in midwifery too. It's a while ago since I looked Lulu but I think some courses required Maths and some didn't - don't quote me on that though!

pop on to
www.vtac.edu.au
and put in midwifery and all the course available will pop up
VTARS, prerequisites (sp?) and so on
any questions ask ;)

(little brother is doing his now and ive been helping him)

i think ACU bac. midwifery is very high as in 97 or very similar and they dont take many school leavers!! more mature age people, check with nelle as a good friend of hers is doing bac. of mid through there and said there are only a couple of VCE people in her course

From the VTAC site :

ACU Melbourne took 26 yr 12 students to their midwifery course and the TER was 75.5

Deakin took 19 from yr 12 and TER was 89.05

atrobe 80.25
Monash 80.45

VUT 66.1 took 10yr 12 students

Clearly in TER means the highest score that was knocked back, not that you ahve to get that score to get in. May courses that have interview compnents take students who got less than the TER

texting my GF who is a RN and doing Midwifery now ...will get back when I get an answer :)

DD is going to do nursing in NSW next year hopefully, the marks vary from 60-75 depending on the uni and all said you had to do English and most wanted a science too.
Maybe she could do nursing first then midwifery?

I wanted to do midwifery but back then there wasn't direct entry midwifery you had to be a registered nurse first. So I did my RN's and needed a UAI of 69.9 (or there abouts) I got 70.65 so only just got in. Then after working for 3years as a RN I did midwifery. You can do it before that time though and I have known many girls to go straight from finishing there RN's into Midwifery. Midwifery for an RN is 12months (going to 18months now apparently). You don't need a UAI all you need is a hospital that will employ you as a student midwife and then you can apply to do midwifery.

Direct entry is 3-4years depending on where you do it and you need a much higher HSC score. It would also be harder to get into as a school leaver. Although I only want to do midwifery I am glad I am also an RN as there are an incrediable amount of career options incomparison to being a direct entry midwife who are limited to midwifery and community midwifery. So I would be inclined to encourage her to do her RN's first and midwifery that way. She might not want to do anything but midwifery at the moment but down the tract she could be limited by only having done midwifery in comparison to other midwifes who are nurses as well as midwifes especially in some places as where I work does not employ direct entry midwives. Also when your looking at climbing the ranks into management roles (not that she would be thinking along these lines but thats where the money is down the track) you need to be an RN and a midwife. Also depending on where you live trying to get employment against other people who are both midwives and nurses they might be more likely to get a job over your daughter who has done direct entry midwifery.

In saying all this its a wonderful career option with plenty of employment. I wish her the best of luck over the coming year as she does her final studting at school.

For me I did low english (but got very high marks). intermediate maths (average marks) and did both biology (just above average) and Chemistry (failed). I think the science subjects are more important than maths but they do like you to have done well at English. Apparently only average in the intermediate English is acceptable as is doing very well in the lowest English. Id say its the same with maths. If you do the lowest Maths level you would need to get very good marks (like in the top 10% of the state)
GL to your daughter. It makes it easier if you know what you want to do.

Awwwwesome information thank you all!

DD is doing higher maths, is great in English, doing biology - psych next year.

She was talking about Nursing first, then Mid so she might be on the right track and I agree with her in the light of all this info :lol:

Her bestie at school wants to do the same. I really hope they both get in - I like their reasons for it.

DD was at DS's birth (she was 12), when I asked her why she was so set on being a Middy she said "because when M was born that midwife didn't listen to you, she kept telling you he wouldn't be born for hours and even I could see it would be soon."
He was born 10 mins after she told me I would be there for at least 4 hours - despite my quick labour history, despite classic signs and despite ME....

Same thing happened to her bestie's mum too - they have both sworn the first thing they will do as midwives is watch and listen to the mother.
So I'm thrilled to pieces - having her there when DS was born has been a wonderful thing :lol:

Lulu - the TER requirements actually change every year. It is usually based on how many people apply and what kind of scores they get. But having a look at the requirements for the last couple of years is a good way of seeing a ballpark figure.

Is your DD in year 11 or 12? Def go to as many Open Days as possible (they should be starting soon) and also (if she is year 11) head for the Nursing and Midwifery Expo next year. It is always held in around June/July (I forget which) and is at the Royal Exhibition Building on Nicholson Street Fitzroy. it is always PACKED so get there early. They have all the Universities represented as well as hospitals.

Also, if she is really passionate about doing it but not sure if she will get the scores to go to ACU or Deakin - consider other campuses (not just city campuses). Country campuses usually have a lower TER rate requirement.

HTH

MG