Veterinary med/Chemistry??
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Veterinary med/Chemistry??Hey guys, well I have always loved and felt strong emotions towards animals like so many people, and when i was in about year 11 i decided that I wanted to be a vet. However I was told by the careers teacher at my school that because i didn't do physics GCSE i wouldn't get accepted and even doing the GCSE after would still look bad on UCAS (because it's so competitive, not because you need it as you don't need it as much for medicine). Of course it obviously took me a while to get over this, but then I decided I would do Chemistry at uni instead. Then about 2/3 months ago when I was applying to chemistry in irish uni's, i found that I can do veterinary medicine in ireland because it's a completely different system and not as focused on the GCSE subjects. Now i don't know what to do because i have been focused on Chemistry for a year now (i like Chemistry but more chose it because I didn't really know what to do), and all my friends/family/teachers know me as doing Chemistry, and helped me with my university application in england. The deadline for choosing in ireland is 1st July, and I'm really unsure, i love love animals, but now worried that I wouldn't be a good vet with the detailed and difficult surgery and everything
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Re: Veterinary med/Chemistry??It sounds to me like you'd much rather do vet med. I don't know a great deal about vet med applications, did you just do GCSE biology and chemistry and not double science?
i like Chemistry but more chose it because I didn't really know what to do
This is the wrong reason to do Chemistry. Lack of any physics qualification won't help you here either. -
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Re: Veterinary med/Chemistry??Yeah we didn't do double/triple science, but separate sciences, and i just did chem and bio which I obviously regret now!(Original post by EierVonSatan)
It sounds to me like you'd much rather do vet med. I don't know a great deal about vet med applications, did you just do GCSE biology and chemistry and not double science?
This is the wrong reason to do Chemistry. Lack of any physics qualification won't help you here either.
And i know it is, but at the time I felt i didn't have that much choice :/ -
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Re: Veterinary med/Chemistry??(Original post by glitter_star12)
Hey guys, well I have always loved and felt strong emotions towards animals like so many people, and when i was in about year 11 i decided that I wanted to be a vet. However I was told by the careers teacher at my school that because i didn't do physics GCSE i wouldn't get accepted and even doing the GCSE after would still look bad on UCAS (because it's so competitive, not because you need it as you don't need it as much for medicine). Of course it obviously took me a while to get over this, but then I decided I would do Chemistry at uni instead. Then about 2/3 months ago when I was applying to chemistry in irish uni's, i found that I can do veterinary medicine in ireland because it's a completely different system and not as focused on the GCSE subjects. Now i don't know what to do because i have been focused on Chemistry for a year now (i like Chemistry but more chose it because I didn't really know what to do), and all my friends/family/teachers know me as doing Chemistry, and helped me with my university application in england. The deadline for choosing in ireland is 1st July, and I'm really unsure, i love love animals, but now worried that I wouldn't be a good vet with the detailed and difficult surgery and everything
I would be very grateful for any advice! Thank you
Have you looked on uni websites? For example if you looked on the RVC website it says you need double science at AA or if you took separate sciences then you would need A/B in physics. So you don't need physics at GCSE if what you're saying is you did only separate science
Entering graduate VetMed should be a last resort. It's incredible difficult and expensive. -
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Re: Veterinary med/Chemistry??You just wrote 'if you took separate sciences then you would need A/B in physics'?? I did look at it at the time and most specified i needed physics, but my teacher said even the ones that didn't but most likely reject me, as it's so competitive they look for things to reject you with.(Original post by Toph)
Have you looked on uni websites? For example if you looked on the RVC website it says you need double science at AA or if you took separate sciences then you would need A/B in physics. So you don't need physics at GCSE if what you're saying is you did only separate science
Entering graduate VetMed should be a last resort. It's incredible difficult and expensive.
Also the course in ireland (UCD) isn't graduate VetMed, they just don't focus on the gcse subjects, but only really a-levels -
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Re: Veterinary med/Chemistry??Hey(Original post by glitter_star12)
Hey guys, well I have always loved and felt strong emotions towards animals like so many people, and when i was in about year 11 i decided that I wanted to be a vet. However I was told by the careers teacher at my school that because i didn't do physics GCSE i wouldn't get accepted and even doing the GCSE after would still look bad on UCAS (because it's so competitive, not because you need it as you don't need it as much for medicine). Of course it obviously took me a while to get over this, but then I decided I would do Chemistry at uni instead. Then about 2/3 months ago when I was applying to chemistry in irish uni's, i found that I can do veterinary medicine in ireland because it's a completely different system and not as focused on the GCSE subjects. Now i don't know what to do because i have been focused on Chemistry for a year now (i like Chemistry but more chose it because I didn't really know what to do), and all my friends/family/teachers know me as doing Chemistry, and helped me with my university application in england. The deadline for choosing in ireland is 1st July, and I'm really unsure, i love love animals, but now worried that I wouldn't be a good vet with the detailed and difficult surgery and everything
I would be very grateful for any advice! Thank you
If you wanna do veterinary, do it. I think most veterinary medicine applicants are told by their careers teachers that they will never get onto the course, I sure was but I applied anyways UCD don't consider work experience whereas every other uni do, its the biggest part of the selection procedure, and they don't interview but they do ask for ridiculously high grades at first sitting. A*A*AA minimum. Go for it if thats what you have your heart set on
Alternatively, you could repeat a year and do physics at GCSE and complete as much work experience as possible. Then apply to the English/Scottish unis.Last edited by Irishguy2K10; 10-06-2012 at 22:25. -
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Re: Veterinary med/Chemistry??Thank you! i think i'm getting the confidence to just go and apply! And this year luckily for me, UCD have changed the system slightly so if you do a maths a level, you get an extra 25 points, so i've worked out that I would need minimum of A*AAA, (well based on last year) hard obviously, but not impossible(Original post by Irishguy2K10)
Hey If you wanna do veterinary, do it. I think most veterinary medicine applicants are told by their careers teachers that they will never get onto the course, I sure was but I applied anyways UCD don't consider work experience whereas every other uni do, its the biggest part of the selection procedure, and they don't interview but they do ask for ridiculously high grades at first sitting. A*A*AA minimum. Go for it if thats what you have your heart set on
Alternatively, you could repeat a year and do physics at GCSE and complete as much work experience as possible. Then apply to the English/Scottish unis.
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Re: Veterinary med/Chemistry??Oo, well not as bad then. Just go for it and hopefully see you at AVS in November(Original post by glitter_star12)
Thank you! i think i'm getting the confidence to just go and apply! And this year luckily for me, UCD have changed the system slightly so if you do a maths a level, you get an extra 25 points, so i've worked out that I would need minimum of A*AAA, (well based on last year) hard obviously, but not impossible
If you wanna do veterinary, do it. I think most veterinary medicine applicants are told by their careers teachers that they will never get onto the course, I sure was but I applied anyways 
