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okay, so i'm not sure whether i want to do veterinary...or medicine! i've aways wanted to do veterinary and honestly think i would prefer it but i don't think my GCSE grades were good enough (2A*, 9As and a B) and i do think id enjoy medicine
i've just started my A levels and have decided on my masterplan.
ill study my butt off these next two years (im doing bio, chem, eng lit and psycology), meanwhile getting as much work experience with animals AND people, e.g. care homes...so i have enough to put on my PS, whatever career choice i choose ALTHOUGH i will do more work with animals.
ill apply to the four unis i can for veterinary, and leave my two 'spare' choices blank (it shows dedication apparantly)
if i don't get in, ill take a year off. If i didnt get in due to lack of work experience, ill do loads with animals. if its something else, e.g. grades ill take a year off and work towards medicine...do work experience for that and then apply for medicine the next year.
this is all, of course, assuming i actually get the grades (although medicine is a bit easier to get in than veterinary) if i don't, then, well. my plans out the window and i spend the year retaking them! (whilst getting lots of work experience in both fields ofcourse :P)
wow. this is a very long and meaningless prattling post! what i was really asking is... does this plan sound okay? anyone else done something similar and can you see anything wrong with it that ive overlooked?
i'd say thankyou...but i don't think anyone would still be reading this! :P
hehe, ahh well...thankyou!
ill apply to the four unis i can for veterinary, and leave my two 'spare' choices blank (it shows dedication apparantly)
1) YOU ONLY GET FIVE CHOICES!
2) the uni does not see what other unis you apply for so leaving your spare choice blank is stupid.
anywho, without maths you wouldn't get into vet med, i dont think. there are only 6 vet unis. if you can switch to maths, do it. then apply for vet med.
if you aren't 100% certain you want to do medicine and you'd love love love love it there's no point doing it as it's so hard and demanding, and even those that are 100% committed can drop out due to the pressure.
ill apply to the four unis i can for veterinary, and leave my two 'spare' choices blank (it shows dedication apparantly)
1. You get 5 choices (of which 4 can be veterinary, medicine or dentistry).
2. Universities can't see where else you applied, so they're not going to know if you apply to a 5th backup choice.
okay, so i'm not sure whether i want to do veterinary...or medicine! i've aways wanted to do veterinary and honestly think i would prefer it but i don't think my GCSE grades were good enough (2A*, 9As and a B) and i do think id enjoy medicine
i've just started my A levels and have decided on my masterplan.
ill study my butt off these next two years (im doing bio, chem, eng lit and psycology), meanwhile getting as much work experience with animals AND people, e.g. care homes...so i have enough to put on my PS, whatever career choice i choose ALTHOUGH i will do more work with animals.
ill apply to the four unis i can for veterinary, and leave my two 'spare' choices blank (it shows dedication apparantly)
if i don't get in, ill take a year off. If i didnt get in due to lack of work experience, ill do loads with animals. if its something else, e.g. grades ill take a year off and work towards medicine...do work experience for that and then apply for medicine the next year.
this is all, of course, assuming i actually get the grades (although medicine is a bit easier to get in than veterinary) if i don't, then, well. my plans out the window and i spend the year retaking them! (whilst getting lots of work experience in both fields ofcourse :P)
wow. this is a very long and meaningless prattling post! what i was really asking is... does this plan sound okay? anyone else done something similar and can you see anything wrong with it that ive overlooked?
i'd say thankyou...but i don't think anyone would still be reading this! :P
hehe, ahh well...thankyou!
OK this would have gone down alot better in the VetSci forum. Anyway,
Your GCSEs are fine, more than OK. I think your A levels are fine too, but maths or another science would have been better than Eng, as most candidates have this kind of A level choice.
You need to decide between medicine and vet science. You either want to be a vet or a doctor, and It makes me cringe when people think they are interchangeable except you swap people for animals. If you strip away for a second, the things that the professional is treating, and then analyse what a doctor does in his day, and what a vet does in his day, it's still completely different. Being a vet is a way of life, and Im not looking down on doctors but it's alot different. If you're a vet, you're on your feet alot more. You travel about alot more. You're an agricultural pillar of society, well known amongst local farmers and heavily involved in farming, agriculture, as well as all sorts of scenarios involving many late nights and lots of blood and poo!
The best way of putting it, is that being a Vet is a full time (literally) dedication, and is a vocational course. Everything is practical and hands on.
Being a GP for example, is rather different.
Research these two careers, and do lots of work exp (as you've said) and I'm sure you'll quickly get a feel for which you really want to do.
1) YOU ONLY GET FIVE CHOICES!
2) the uni does not see what other unis you apply for so leaving your spare choice blank is stupid.
anywho, without maths you wouldn't get into vet med, i dont think. there are only 6 vet unis. if you can switch to maths, do it. then apply for vet med.
if you aren't 100% certain you want to do medicine and you'd love love love love it there's no point doing it as it's so hard and demanding, and even those that are 100% committed can drop out due to the pressure.
no thats wrong, physics is one of the preferred subjects (even possibly more so than maths), along with chemistry and biology. I got two offers last year whi Bio, Chem and Phys.
OK this would have gone down alot better in the VetSci forum. Anyway,
Your GCSEs are fine, more than OK. I think your A levels are fine too, but maths or another science would have been better than Eng, as most candidates have this kind of A level choice.
You need to decide between medicine and vet science. You either want to be a vet or a doctor, and It makes me cringe when people think they are interchangeable except you swap people for animals. If you strip away for a second, the things that the professional is treating, and then analyse what a doctor does in his day, and what a vet does in his day, it's still completely different. Being a vet is a way of life, and Im not looking down on doctors but it's alot different. If you're a vet, you're on your feet alot more. You travel about alot more. You're an agricultural pillar of society, well known amongst local farmers and heavily involved in farming, agriculture, as well as all sorts of scenarios involving many late nights and lots of blood and poo!
The best way of putting it, is that being a Vet is a full time (literally) dedication, and is a vocational course. Everything is practical and hands on.
Being a GP for example, is rather different.
Research these two careers, and do lots of work exp (as you've said) and I'm sure you'll quickly get a feel for which you really want to do.
Here, here! I agree with everything transatlantic drawls says. Veterinary is definitely a way of life and not just a job. The vets that I work with work every single day during the week (+night/on calls) and every 1 in 6 weekends. You've got to be really dedicated to the job and the point about an "agriculture pillar of society" is true too, most people in a village/town are more likely to have heard of the local vet than the local GP or heart surgeon (no disrespect to doctors btw). Rock on vets!!!
Lol re-reading it, It's quite funny. "An agricultural pillar of society". By this I meant that you're very well known within the agricultural community, and you're getting asked for advice on all sorts of issues, and heavily involved within farming itself. In fact one farmer once asked my local vet whether he thought the good weather was gonna hold out to get the hay done! Vets just help out with everything!
Another key one is the advice over the phone. Have you ever tried to get free, readily available advice over the phone from a GP? a lawyer? (certainly not the free part for that one!).
Vets truly are brill.
(Ok we need to stop now, We're just hijacking this thread with pro-vet propaganda ) Ah well...
Lol re-reading it, It's quite funny. "An agricultural pillar of society". By this I meant that you're very well known within the agricultural community, and you're getting asked for advice on all sorts of issues, and heavily involved within farming itself. In fact one farmer once asked my local vet whether he thought the good weather was gonna hold out to get the hay done! Vets just help out with everything!
Another key one is the advice over the phone. Have you ever tried to get free, readily available advice over the phone from a GP? a lawyer? (certainly not the free part for that one!).
Vets truly are brill.
(Ok we need to stop now, We're just hijacking this thread with pro-vet propaganda ) Ah well...
Yeah but pro-vet propaganda is fun Vets really are amazing. I don't think any of my Drs have spoken over the phone to patients (only snotty receptionists), whereas my vets always speak to clients. They give the owners daily updates on the hospitilised cases and they even answer the phones and book people in when the receptionists and nurses are busy. Vets are multi-talanted...its true I promise I won't be this un-modest when I'm actually a vet/vet-student, but I'll always fight their corner against doctors. Last year there was 7 med applicants in my chem class vs me (the smelly vetty person), and once 2 of them said "Yeah, actually whats the point of being a vet? I just can't imagine going to work and having to operate on a guinea pig." I was NOT impressed....
Come on transatlanticdrawl more pro-vet propaganda (before the medics muscle in)
anywho, without maths you wouldn't get into vet med, i dont think. there are only 6 vet unis. if you can switch to maths, do it. then apply for vet med.
Argh. Don't speak about what you don't know. You can get into all of the vet schools without taking Maths, as long as you have taken physics. And for four of them, you don't have to have taken maths or physics.
And there are not six vet schools, there are seven.
Argh. Don't speak about what you don't know. You can get into all of the vet schools without taking Maths, as long as you have taken physics. And for four of them, you don't have to have taken maths or physics.
And there are not six vet schools, there are seven.
Yeeeaaaah.... AND at Liverpool you don't even have to do chemistry, and yes there are 7 vet unis in the UK!!!
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I promise I won't be this un-modest when I'm actually a vet/vet-student, but I'll always fight their corner against doctors. Last year there was 7 med applicants in my chem class vs me (the smelly vetty person), and once 2 of them said "Yeah, actually whats the point of being a vet? I just can't imagine going to work and having to operate on a guinea pig." I was NOT impressed....
