Hello everyone,
I am in my second year of doing a Biomedical Science degree, and smashing a first at this rate which is all well and good. I'm 26 at the moment so already a mature student and having spent the last 7 years with the army, I have decided to come to uni and go into a graduate job.
From schools/A levels, I wasn't too good at studying, but now it turns out that I'm fairly on the ball and really committed to studying, happily putting in the time etc and dedicating pretty much all my time to attaining grades and really pushing myself to do the very best I can.
So onward looking I have decided to give medicine a crack, it wasn't my original plan but I realised that I would have accrued 3 years + paid experience with doctors and nurses and other allied health professionals, as well as attending medical seminars as well as a few voluntary paramedic shifts here and there.
What really put me on this course is during a career interview putting out some feelers on what I wanted to do with the rest of my working life, the interviewer said I was the strongest candidate she has ever seen for medicine, which was a combination of military, personal and related work experience.
However, the problem is when I took my GCSE's (near a decade ago now) I only managed to get C's, obviously this will impact my application, however, do you think that due to experience, and getting a first in Biomedical Science they will still want me to re-take GCSE's? Or do you think as it is so long ago, that they won't really mind?
It is worth mentioning on my access course I did a maths module, as well as first year I took maths and stats, and stats again this year for the first semester.
Any feedback would be great.
Cheers all!
Tom