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Medicine or Nursing- how to help DD decide which?

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FiveHoursSleep · 22/09/2019 21:51

DD1 is in Y13 and is definitely interested in some sort of medical job. She likes science and is good at it. She got all 8s and 9s for GCSEs, except for one 7 for Spanish and an A* for Classics.
She's doing bio, chem and sociology for A levels and is predicted AAA* and sat UCAT last week and got 3000( or 750) .
Up until her UCAT score she was slightly biased towards nursing but now she says she feels she should do medicine.
She thinks she would be happier doing nursing but is worried she might regret not doing medicine. She has a part time job working with the general public and is good with people and thinks medicine might not allow enough patient contact for her.
Deadlines are looming and she's torn and is getting upset about it.
Oh and she's pretty keen to take a gap year if that helps any.
Any suggestions?

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Ginfordinner · 18/04/2020 15:39

How did she manage to submit two different personal statements? When DD was applying for medicine and diagnostic radiography she could only submit one personal statement. She got an immediate rejection for radiography because her PS said she wanted to study medicine.

Ellmau · 18/04/2020 21:46

Congratulations!

Origamiheaven · 19/04/2020 11:25

Ginfordinner my son applied for 2 courses at the same uni. Medicine and pharmacy. His ucas ps was aimed at medicine and the pharmacy admissions tutor asked for a ps to be sent direct to the department.

FiveHoursSleep · 21/04/2020 18:28

Ginfordinner, same as Origamiheaven. DD's UCAS statement was aimed at medicine but she contacted the nursing schools and arranged to email them a separate statement. It really wasn't a problem.

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FiveHoursSleep · 13/08/2020 08:36

Further update on this. DD received her grades today. They weren't as predicted (AAB instead of A*AA) but Birmingham have offered her a place anyhow, so she's off to medical school.
It's been a long journey but at least she doesn't have to resit Chem!

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lunar1 · 13/08/2020 08:51

Glad she made a decision she was happy with, what a stressful time to be applying for uni!

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