if you don't get in this time?

**talknerdytome** · 01-04-2010, 01:54 AM

I'm still waiting to hear back from Swansea, but it's not looking good. I've been offered a place on an A2M course, so will do that and apply again next year =[

**captshiznit** · 01-04-2010, 08:05 PM

This thread seriously does not fill me with hope, however i'm a 2.2 applicant so will be on the GAMSAT route so i'll be subject to something probably slightly different to UKCAT apps etc....

Although I seriously don't know how some of you have been rejected.....I couldn't really see applications which were more perfect.

**yazoo** · 02-04-2010, 01:32 AM

Originally Posted by maverick125

i would say that nursing is as close to medicine as any other career; that is, if you can't get into medicine, nursing seems like a good fall-back. and a fall-back that would be hugely beneficial to an application down the line for some candidates. i just wonder why it is that some people, not necessarily aiming this at anyone, talk with some single mindedness about medicine, as if it is the only option, when nursing offers so many interesting options.

"May look into continuing Mandarin Chinese at degree level with International Development or even law if I have to."

i mean, to give up medical school applications to become a lawyer? why not nursing? seriously? i can't understand: "i am desperately keen to be a doctor but for the time being that is denied. therefore i shall become a lawyer". i have been a lawyer and an HCA and i can tell which i think is more closely related to medicine.

I think a slightly narrow view. People enter careers for many motivating factors. And medicine is many-faceted and has room for all sorts! You may have been an HCA and a lawyer, but really you don't know which is more similar, and this is obvious from your post. The simple answer is that some medical jobs would have more in common with law, some with certain nursing roles.

Knowing what motivates YOU is the key to career selection.

**bottles** · 19-04-2010, 01:46 AM

In regards to the thread title, I applied this year, three interviews, two rejections and currently waiting on Warwick. The thought of not getting in this year is a depressing one but I will give myself a month to mentally get over the rejection and then pursue the medical admissions cycle later this year whilst continuing to work. I will certainly be selecting my choices more carefully.

I will most probably apply two more times and if unsuccessful, stop chasing a career as a Doctor.