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Recent high school graduate Rithisa Dahal hopes to pursue a career in medicine even though she has a visceral reaction to the sight of blood and guts.

Today, the 2024 Salisbury High School graduate was among 13,000 hopefuls to receive an offer to study at university in 2025.

South Australia’s three major universities have released 13,014 first round offers to applicants today.

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Due to her fear of blood, Rithisa has chosen a bachelor of medical radiation as her first preference course at university this year.

“I feel a bit dizzy and uneasy and I get scared looking inside people,” Rithisa, 18, said.

“Watching movies at a young age I’d get scared when people get cut up.”

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But she won’t escape her fear entirely. Rithisa’s older sister, Bhumika, has just finished her first year of a medical radiation degree and warned that anatomy is part of the course.

“In the course you look at dead bodies so I’ll have to get used to that – I’m just not used to seeing it,” Rithisa said.

“ (Bhumika) shows me her assignments and when she has a test or an exam, I test her.”

Rithisa Dahal (left), 17, with her sister Bhumika, 18. Picture: Dean Martin

A spokeswoman for the SA Tertiary Admissions Centre (SATAC) said it would continue making offers throughout January and February.

The next round of undergraduate offers will be released on January 23.

The most popular undergraduate courses for 2025 are in the fields of medicine, health and humanities, social sciences and religious studies, followed by education and engineering.

Among the 13,014 undergraduate offers made today, 9,190 were made to year 12 school-leavers.

About three-quarters of the total offers were given for courses listed as the applicant’s first preference.

Education Minister Blair Boyer congratulated high school graduates who secured 2025 university places, but urged those who weren’t offered their first preference not to be discouraged.

“There will be further offers and, failing that, other pathways into your desired field,” Mr Boyer said.

Education, Training and Skills Minister Blair Boyer has congratulated university hopefuls who received offers for 2025 study. Picture: Roy VanDerVegt

Students flocked to apply for Flinders University programs including Doctor of Medicine, Bachelor of Paramedicine and Bachelor of Nursing.

This was similar to the courses with the highest number of offers in areas such as nursing, paramedicine and medical science.

New programs at Flinders include Diploma in Sports Management (Cricket), Bachelor of Surveying and Bachelor of Early Childhood Education (Birth – 5).

At The University of Adelaide, the most students applied to courses including Doctor of Medicine, Bachelor of Dental Surgery and Bachelor of Nursing.

Areas with the highest number of offers included health and medical sciences, nursing and physiotherapy.

The University of Adelaide, which will merge with The University of South Australia at the start of 2026, has no new programs this year.

At UniSA, students applied in the greatest numbers for their Bachelor of Nursing, Bachelor of Medical Radiation Science (Medical Imaging) and Bachelor of Physiotherapy.

Their top three highest course offers for students matched applications exactly.

They will add to their course catalogue a Bachelor of Architectural Studies, Diploma of Sports Management in association with Adelaide Football Club and a Bachelor of Early Childhood Education.

Rithisa, who achieved a 97.75 ATAR, was confident she would receive an offer for her first preference course.

Born in a refugee camp in Nepal in 2007, after her parents were forced to leave Bhutan,

Rithisa speaks Nepali at home and participates in Nepali dancing.

The family now lives in Salisbury, in Adelaide’s north.

Despite being born in Bhutan, Rithisa’s culturally Nepali parents were forced to speak Bhutanese and could not wear their traditional clothing.

“My parents told me they were kicked out by the king (of Bhutan),” she said.

“For my parents it was really hard and the conditions were really bad (in the refugee camp).”

Emmaus Christian College graduate Sehreem Shirjeel is eagerly awaiting an offer to study at university in 2025. Picture: Roy VanDerVegt

Also awaiting a university offer on Friday was Emmaus Christian College student Sehreem Shirjeel.

The 18-year-old, who achieved a 96.5 ATAR, wants to be a journalist.

“I’m excited and nervous. I’ve been thinking a lot about the future and how doing certain degrees will impact that,” she said.

Sehreem applied for a double degree in journalism and professional writing and a bachelor of arts English literature, through UniSA, as her first preference.

“I’m so excited about the uni life, to meet new people who are like-minded, to be in a different environment, to join different clubs,” the South Plympton teen said.

“I’m excited for the independence. I know I will just have to be more organised.”

After graduating, Sehreem has been enjoying hobbies she “neglected” while studying in year 12, such as scrapbooking, journalling and reading just for fun.

“I’ve always loved to read and write and to tell stories,” she said.

“I’ve always been interested in what’s going on in the world and how to communicate that.”

Mel Leaver’s long journey to finding her place at UniSA

Mel Leaver studying a Bachelor of Secondary Education with Honours at UniSA. Picture: Emma Brasier

Mel Leaver, 46, never finished high school but in 2024 she began her second university degree to learn to be the teacher she never had growing up.

In 1994 she left high school in year 11 as autism and ADHD, undiagnosed at the time, made school difficult for Ms Leaver and she would “get into lots of trouble in class”.

“I’d do the work and get bored,” Ms Leaver, from Banksia Park, said.

Ms Leaver was inspired to pursue teaching due to her experiences and what her 16-year-old son Lucas, also diagnosed with autism, told her about how he was misunderstood at school.

“He’s had teachers tell him he isn’t autistic and he’s faking it,” said Ms Leaver of her son.

“He has a hard time engaging and they’re content seeing him barely pass.”

When she completes her degree in 2027, she hopes to be part of “systematic change” in schools.

However Ms Leaver had a complicated relationship with her own education.

She worked as a chef while she began a professional communication degree part time in 2000 and graduated with honours eight years later.

“I woke up the day after graduation in hospital,” Ms Leaver said.

She was pregnant at the time with Lucas and spent a week in hospital after she began leaking amniotic fluid.

Her first of three children, Lucas was born six weeks premature.

While raising her kids, Ms Leaver was “basically a stay at home parent” apart from freelance writing.

She got a taste of working in education when she volunteered at her kids’ primary school, helping students with reading and organising fundraising events.

Ms Leaver’s grandmother, Jean, is also an inspiration for her as she is a retired primary school teacher.

“She’s a very aspirational figure and it was (studying education) was a full circle thing,” she said.

Now, Ms Leaver loves learning and a scholarship from UniSA allows her to study full time.

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