2020 Vet med offers

So my daughter has offers for vet med at Bristol and Surrey, she also has an offer for vet nursing at Harper Adams. Should she A: Choose Bristol - firm, Surrey insurance and risk having no place if she misses out on A level grades, or B: Play it safe choose Surrey ( lower grades AAB)firm and Harper Adams for vet nursing as insurance. She's really stuck! Predicted grades ABB

As @bristolvet94 advised, if your daughter definitely wants to do vet med then she'd be better resitting then doing a nursing degree first. They are actually very different careers and I'd only recommend it as a route into vet med as a complete last resort.

Well the main question she needs to think about is, if she does miss her grades, will she be happy going to study vet nursing? Because if not, there's no point in putting it as an insurance choice, if she's going to be miserable doing it. I know I would have been - vet nurses are amazing, but it's not a career I would have been happy with.

Given everything that's happening this year, I don't think anyone can predict how grades and offers are going to work out, so I'd say that if she's really set on doing vet med and not nursing, put the two vet offers as firm and insurance. If things don't work out on results day, resit the A levels next year when things are hopefully a bit more normal, and reapply. Assuming she has her heart set on vet med, I'd say that's a way better way of doing things than going down the route of doing a vet nursing degree and then maybe trying to get into vet med as a postgrad (it can be done, but not recommended). I had to resit an A level and reapply, and now I'm sitting my final exam to become a vet today. It can be done, and a year out of her life is not a big deal in the end if it means she can do the career she wants.

I know I keep telling her a year out to resit is nothing in the grand scheme of things, but that thought is so depressing she is avoiding thinking about it as an option as in her eyes she's failed.

I know I keep telling her a year out to resit is nothing in the grand scheme of things, but that thought is so depressing she is avoiding thinking about it as an option as in her eyes she's failed.

I know I keep telling her a year out to resit is nothing in the grand scheme of things, but that thought is so depressing she is avoiding thinking about it as an option as in her eyes she's failed.

I know I keep telling her a year out to resit is nothing in the grand scheme of things, but that thought is so depressing she is avoiding thinking about it as an option as in her eyes she's failed.

I know I keep telling her a year out to resit is nothing in the grand scheme of things, but that thought is so depressing she is avoiding thinking about it as an option as in her eyes she's failed.

Can I ask how she got an offer if her predicted are ABB? I’m applying next year and I thought your predicted had to meet the requirements. Thanks

Hi, well her school predicted her AAA however she knows what grades she has had through the 2 years, so shes trying to be more realistic. However, universities know that some schools over/ under predict so make some allowance for that. At least that's what we were told, when doing the the university circuit last year.

Can I ask how she got an offer if her predicted are ABB? I’m applying next year and I thought your predicted had to meet the requirements. Thanks

I don't think all the universities even look at predicted grades as they know how inaccurate they are, Nottingham at least don't unless their policy has changed. They base their decisions on grades already obtained and their selection process instead.

I don’t know why I thought they only let you apply if your predicted met the requirements. That’s so interesting thank you

I know I keep telling her a year out to resit is nothing in the grand scheme of things, but that thought is so depressing she is avoiding thinking about it as an option as in her eyes she's failed.

I repeated a year of sixth form and went to uni a year later - and I'm actually so glad I did! An extra year is definitely a drop in the ocean but when you are young it feels like a lifetime. Happy to speak to her about this as someone who has been there and done that!
I know for a fact that if I studied the wrong subject I would have regretted it more so than waiting another year. The job of a vet and the job of a vet nurse are completely different in terms of what the job entail .