Last year, I applied for medicine and received 2 conditional offers. Although I got 42 IB points in total (exceeding the minimum), I got 765 in my HLs, so my firm (first) choice fell through, and I had to go with my insurance. The problem is, I absolutely hate the city that my insurance medical school is in. I spent some time there earlier this year, and it was like it sucked the life out of me and completely made me lose the will to live/study medicine (anyone want to venture a guess where it is?). I am currently taking a gap year, and I have no idea whether I want to go next year. Since my grades are not high enough and the deadline for medicine has long passed, I've been considering applying for something like neuroscience in London (UCL, Kings) and Edinburgh, and then apply for a 4-year graduate entry course after that. That would take 7 years, only a year longer than the normal (intercalated-degree including) 6 years. But, of course, the possibility that I wouldn't get into medicine a second time. So, my question is this: what should I do? Grit my teeth and get through the 5 years of medicine in a place that makes me want to blow my brains out at a fairly good university, or 7 years (3 in neuroscience + 4 GEM) in a beautiful city at a top 10 university?