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What should I tell them?

Hi, my situation is that I'm on a nursing course at a university, but already i'm unsure if its REALLY what i want to do. I'm applying for a scholarship/masters with the SAME university (different dept) and i don't know what to or if to tell them- will i get found out?

I am an arts student and after graduating last year felt that i couldn't afford a masters and didnt know what to do. i found it hard to get work. so after talking to friends, i applied for nursing and i'm fairly happy to do it- as a third career choice, but i really want to carry on with my subject if i had the choice/ money was no object. this scholarship has come up and its worth a go, but- if i got in, it'd mean me quitting the course after a year. Obviously i want to look after my own interests here- i want to be taken seriously as an arts candidate, but i don't want to tell my nursing dept i'm looking elsewhere- bit like applying for a new job! i'm unsure if i should come clean (nobody has asked me).

second question, re: funding/applications. on my undergrad course, some of my marks are 2.2 for modules. i had 5 months off uni when my father died and had to catch up alone ( in my specialist area) and i still got a good 69. Before my finals, 2 days before in fact, i found out that one of my friends had been found dead. i never told anybody, because, well i don't know, i think i just wanted it all over with at that point and to sit my exams. i didn't do very well in my finals. i tried really hard through what was a terrible couple of years after my dad became ill, but i think obviously it did affect my performance, hence my marks are sometimes not great.

I don't want to give them a sob story or make them feel sorry for me, however objectively, i know that circumstances have affected my performance at undergrad level. i have 64%, but i know that it could have been better and the biggest problem is that the time i had off was in modules in my specialist area. i felt i did well, considering. i feel that, in order to be fair to myself, that i need to just state that i did miss some time at university, BUT i still worked very hard to catch up, on my own, and i got a 67 average for that semester. Do you think its okay to quickly state in my application that although i did miss a lot of time, i still worked very hard and was committed to doing well? Thanks!

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