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Post by malxscfc on Jan 4, 2008 20:13:10 GMT
After revising untill about 3 in the morning last night I woke up to an email from UCAS telling me Manchester had said no. Not feeling great right now. Sorry, Dude, but swallow it with a pint of beer and don't despair. Time yet this year, still. ALSO, in case no one's told you, you can always do that magical thing [we all dream about] and take a year out from your rat-race life, and apply the year following! Don't knock it! IF you don't get in this year, plan what you'd like to do. Then revise it in terms of how THAT would help you get in to Uni next year. Then plan how you can get the money together to do it. Best plan is living with Mum & Dad for a while and working as a Hospital Porter. THEN go travelling to far-flung bits of the globe under the guise of experiencing their health-care systems... Then get back to Britain (after a splurge-blow out in somewhere brainless like Thailand) and apply once more! It's all good, Dude!
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Post by ambersalamander on Jan 6, 2008 12:58:31 GMT
Wot he said. Hear the wise words of salisbury Commiserations Giggy, but wasn't Manchester only your first choice? There are other places you can go, right?
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Jan 7, 2008 19:08:03 GMT
I hadn't picked a first choice, I had 4 medical schools an a backup option in Biochemistry. I'm not really interested in the backup choice but it means I could then do Graduate entry medicine, would hopefully end up in the same place, just 2 or 3 years later.......and probably poor for the rest of my life. At the moment I'd pick this over a year out though as I don't like the idea of being the one left behind when my friends (I have friends - honest!) go off to University. It may not come to that though, still have Keele to make a decision on whether I get an interview and Leicester have invited me to an interview in February. I did also get turned down by Liverpool but in more messy circumstances I feel a bit cheated about and may well issue a complaint because of it. Basically the person who came to the college from Liverpool told me my GCSE grades were good enough, the University prospectus backed them up. I apply and then see on their website afterwards they want higher GCSE grades than I have. As we can now make just 5 places we're allowed to apply to and only 4 can be medical schools I feel like I was tricked out of one of my application placesso not amused with that.......on that note I'm still somewhat confused as to why being not particularly good at History or Drama makes me any less suitable for a career in medicine.
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Post by malxscfc on Jan 10, 2008 11:15:55 GMT
I hadn't picked a first choice, I had 4 medical schools an a backup option in Biochemistry. I'm not really interested in the backup choice but it means I could then do Graduate entry medicine, would hopefully end up in the same place, just 2 or 3 years later.......and probably poor for the rest of my life. At the moment I'd pick this over a year out though as I don't like the idea of being the one left behind when my friends (I have friends - honest!) go off to University. It may not come to that though, still have Keele to make a decision on whether I get an interview and Leicester have invited me to an interview in February. I did also get turned down by Liverpool but in more messy circumstances I feel a bit cheated about and may well issue a complaint because of it. Basically the person who came to the college from Liverpool told me my GCSE grades were good enough, the University prospectus backed them up. I apply and then see on their website afterwards they want higher GCSE grades than I have. As we can now make just 5 places we're allowed to apply to and only 4 can be medical schools I feel like I was tricked out of one of my application placesso not amused with that.......on that note I'm still somewhat confused as to why being not particularly good at History or Drama makes me any less suitable for a career in medicine. Can see why you're miffed at losing 20% of your chances though... But I guess they have to alter their entry criteria on an annual basis - maybe even more often than that some years, when there's a lot of demand for their course. Don't worry about being a year behind your peers. As those of us middle-aged types know, the age thing becomes seriously irrelevant once you leave School. Plus it's unlikely many of your friends will go up to the same University as you. Plus it's unlikely you'll stay friends with many - you'll change, and they'll change. Suddenly you and they have new friends, and the little you USED to have in common is no longer the case. As for the year out? It gives you the chance to focus more clearly on what you want, and where you want to do it. You can start improving your application chances by buttering up to the University Staff where you want to be. Go and see them. Spend a day at the place. Meet some of the current Med Students, and get the lowdown on what the Admissions Staff and/or Medical Staff are looking for. Chances are, you poor bastard, that like the vast majority of us, you'll spend 30 or 40 years of your life in a boring, sh*t job, stuck in the same place, with responsibilities you never wanted. Then, when you're decrepit, you retire. Then you have loads of free time to do with as you wish, but no inclination to do anything with it.... Then you die. FFS, get out and see some of the wide blue yonder while you still have a chance!! Smoke pot in a lorry going up the Himalayas. Get laid in a hammock in a riverboat on the Amazon. Pretend you're Tintin for 3 months, being hotly pursued by members of the evil Kurvi-Tasch organisation. And do it NOW!! I command you! Do it THIS YEAR, or you'll never get the chance. Right. I'll get my coat noose.
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Post by ambersalamander on Jan 10, 2008 19:08:28 GMT
I was about to say how much I love my job, then realised that since I've only been studying/working in the field since 1998 so my opinion probably doesn't count
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Post by malxscfc on Jan 11, 2008 20:49:19 GMT
I was about to say how much I love my job, then realised that since I've only been studying/working in the field since 1998 so my opinion probably doesn't count On days like this it must get cold in the field. Hope there are some nice cosy haystacks to shelter in.
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Post by ambersalamander on Jan 11, 2008 23:14:53 GMT
Oh yes, that reminds me of my dad's joke about the scarecrow who won the Nobel Prize because he was out standing in his field ;D
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Post by malxscfc on Jan 12, 2008 11:44:14 GMT
Can Dad borrow the scarecrow's coat to leave with?
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Post by ambersalamander on Jan 12, 2008 12:28:01 GMT
What are you saying about my dad's dress sense?
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Post by malxscfc on Jan 15, 2008 13:03:32 GMT
What are you saying about my dad's dress sense? That it's probably better than mine....?
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Post by votp on Jan 15, 2008 13:44:10 GMT
What are you saying about my dad's dress sense? Depends whether you've bought him one of your club shirts.....
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Post by bh on Jan 16, 2008 8:19:41 GMT
Oi, cheeky
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Post by ambersalamander on Jan 21, 2008 20:34:38 GMT
He's not THAT snappy a dresser! He is an old codger after all.
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Feb 26, 2008 22:28:18 GMT
Not heard from Keele yet, may phone them later this week.
Interview at Leicester tommorrow though. Wish me luck.
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Post by ambersalamander on Feb 26, 2008 22:33:59 GMT
Oooh good luck!!
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