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AIBU?

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To think I regret applying to university?

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Platform975 · 03/04/2019 14:20

I've been offered (and accepted) a place on a Healthcare Science undergraduate degree fully funded. I already have a degree and in theory could have applied for the postgraduate programme but I know it's highly competitive. However I'm starting to regret my decision to do the undergraduate. I'm 30 this year and DP is 35 and in an ideal world we'd love to have a baby soon. We're also getting married next year. If I do the undergraduate we wouldn't be able to have a baby until I graduate so we'd be 33 and 38 when ttc and preferably we'd like to have 2-3 DC if possible.

Sorry this has turned into more of a WWYD than an AIBU. It's too late to apply for the postgrad route now as applications have closed for the year but would I be mad to pull out of the undergraduate and apply for the postgraduate next year and risk ending up with neither?

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Platform975 · 03/04/2019 19:14

Crap as standard tbh @GregoryPeckingDuck I don't think it would be with the wedding really as it's costing us around 8/9k including a really good honeymoon. I've just googled the university childcare and for the weeks I'm in university / on placement it'd cost us around 9k per year just in childcare.

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onewhitewhisker · 03/04/2019 19:18

OP would they let you defer the undergrad place for a year rather than pull out? then you could apply for the postgrad when it opens, but still have a place if you don't get on.

GregoryPeckingDuck · 03/04/2019 19:56

That’s unfortunate. At least studying will be easier if you delay having kids.

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