A FIRST preference offer to study at the highly esteemed Elder Conservatorium of Music has put Evanston Park’s Millie Curry on the path to realising a career dream.

The Xavier College graduate has been accepted into a jazz performance course at the University of Adelaide, having taken part in an intense audition process late last year.

A total of 15,755 undergraduate offers were sent out to students on Friday, as part of the main offer round for 2021.

Together with offers made at the end of 2020, 13,871 students received a place in their first preference course.

Millie said she was shocked and thrilled to receive her letter of acceptance.

“I’ve seen very successful performers… who have actually done the jazz performance course, so I was thrilled that I was good enough, to do what they were doing in a way,” she said.

“It was exciting and just crazy to think I’ve actually got in and all the hard work I did paid off.”

In choosing her next study path Millie had kept her options open, and varied, requesting psychology and nursing as her subsequent preferences.

However, she said her offer to study at the Elder Conservatorium of Music will hopefully lead to a career doing something she loves.

“I can’t really remember a time when music wasn’t a major part of my life; it’s something I can’t see myself not doing,” she said.

“There is this place in New York called Birdland, where all the major performers go, so I’d love to go there or I’d love to be a successful performer in a jazz bar in France, or travel the world and do what I love – singing.”

Friday’s offer round brings the total number of undergraduate offers for 2021 to over 18,000.

Medicine and health remain the most popular area of study, followed by humanities and social sciences.

The South Australian Tertiary Admissions Commission (SATAC) will make more offers throughout January and February subject to course availability, with the next offer round on January 28.