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Failed 1st year medicine

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chickengoujon · 10/09/2011 18:04

I am so upset and just looking for a bit of support really. My dd worked desperately hard to get into uni to do medicine. She volunteered at a local old people's home, worked at the gps, worked at the hospital, etc. She got fantastic A levels: A*, A, A, B in general studies. She is a lovely girl, really home loving and plesant.

When she went off to uni she was sad and then started to really live it up, not working very hard. She failed an exam after christmas but apparently that 'didn't matter'. She then failed 5 exams in the summer and spent all summer revising for her resits, only to fail again. After the uni asked her to leave last week she told me that she hadn't been eating properly for about 6 months. She is 5ft 8 and 7st 10. She is like a stick insect and I have been very concerned about her extreme thinness, but she reassured me that she was fine. She said how she had difficulty concentrating when revising and couldn't remember things - does anorexia do this? We didn't submit mitigations before her exams because I wasn't aware that she wasn't eating and she thought she was fine. Could we appeal? Is it too late? The uni seem totally disinterested and couldn't care less.

I feel so upset. Getting her in was so difficult and now it seems she has lost everything. She is totally devastated. Thanks for reading.

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JeanneDeMontbaston · 01/03/2015 15:50

I dunno! It seems to be one that keeps getting dragged up - really odd.

PiratePanda · 01/03/2015 17:42

The last half of the thread is on a different student and dating 2015 though. That's what I was responding to. Maybe you lot should RTT Grin

PiratePanda · 01/03/2015 17:44

PS report it as a zombie thread that refuses to go quietly if you like. Occasionally MNHQ put a big red zombie alert on the bottom.

JeanneDeMontbaston · 01/03/2015 17:47

I know, pirate, that's why I was talking to broken, not you. Smile

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