Please help me decide what to do?

it would take too long to find your last thread and it's impossible to advise without knowing your background and if you qualify for widening access. You could look at UEA or Bristol for foundation year courses - or link to your thread for better advice.

OK - you are probably going to meet widening access criteria and you have excellent grade predictions but no sciences and little experience of medicine.

Applying for a medical degree is definitely the right way to go but if you are going to do that you can't place too much emphasis on neuroscience/psychology in your personal statement as the degree is medicine and they know that many people change their minds on what sort of medicine they want to do when they know more about it. I wonder why you ruled out UEA as I know that they will often offer those they reject for medicine the option to be considered for an alternative course. I think they then allow you to submit a separate personal statement.

If you didn't get a medical place what would you do next? One possibility would be to do a fast track chemistry A level (you do AS and A level chemistry in a year) and AS biology. If you get the A* grades you should be capable of getting A grade predictions and reapplying to medicine with science subjects if necessary. I don't know how you would manage financially but something to discuss with your foster parents/ social worker. You could apply for other courses in clearing if you or through extra if rejected by all medical schools.

Do think hard about running a car at university as it's rarely necessary and an expensive luxury. Most students get around by bike. I can appreciate why you may want a studio flat to yourself but living in hall is helpful for meeting other students.

it's Ok to mention study of clinical neurology leading you into wishing to study medicine but the emphasis needs to be on showing what you learnt about medicine and about your aptitude for it. You aren't the first student to be led into medicine by learning about the brain. You need to question why every line in your statement is there and what it adds.

If your local authority would support you for a fast track chemistry A level and AS biology that plus a 5 year medicine course is cheaper for you than racking up an extra year of student debt doing a foundation year and gives a wider choice of medical school to apply to. However applying now gives you experience of the process and hopefully of interviews.

Applying for 3 med schools and 2 other suggests maybe you aren't totaly committed to a medical degree yet. Medical schools don't see where you have applied but may pick up on any ambivalance in you.

Thank you so much for the advice about my personal statement!

I'm applying to 3 med schools because they're the only ones i can actually apply to. other ones like UEA have requirements to do with having attended specific schools for my gcses which i dont meet. So the 3 i have applied to are the only ones i meet requirements for which are direct progression routes. The other options aren't direct progression routes and transferring to the medical degree after the foundation year isn't guaranteed.
my fourth choice is nottingham's medical physiology and therapeutics course which i think is good because it apparently involves a lot of shared lectures and teaching with the medical students.

its my 5th choice that i'v been trying to figure out. so far i'v put in the university of reading's psychology with neuroscience course.
its just awkward because in the statement i have to make it clear that "medicine" is what i want to study. So i'v mentioned medicine many times and i'm not sure how reading my view my personal statement because of that despite having a bit of my neurology interests and extended work.

i'm considering asking my school if they'll allow me to take As chemistry this year if i do most of the studying myself, they can enter me for the exam and practicals.
that way if a gap year is needed, i would have already done As chemistry and can just continue with the A2 instead of having them both in the same year. if my school say no to that then i'll have to look into the fast track chemistry route.