I'm so happy to have found this thread!
The thing is I started A-level with science subjects intending to do medicine, then switched to arts subjects two weeks into the year with concerns that I didn't want to be a doctor after all. Now I've got into Royal Holloway to study Eng Lit, but over the course of my gap year I've had a sort of epiphany and decided that in actual fact I really, really, really do want to do medicine!
My parents want me to finish my English degree and THEN study medicine, even though that way I'd be at university until I was 30, which I'm a bit unsure about. I get really upset thinking that I'd have to wait that long, and I'm really dreading the English course now that I have no real motivation for doing it and it feels like a huge waste of three years of my life. I'd love to be heading off to a medical course right now, but of course my moment of clarity came a little late for that.
I got 9A* and 2A at GCSE, and my A-levels are English A*, History A* and Physics C, with an A in AS Theatre Studies.
So here's the questions!
If I were to apply to a pre-med course, would it be better to take another gap year (groan...) and apply in the 2012 UCAS cycle, or start my English course and make enquiries about applying once I'm there? (my parents think it would be better to start the English course in case I love it/in case once I get to medical school I don't actually like it :/ I'm not sure really)
Also, considering my grades and situation......do I have a hope in hell of getting in, and surviving once I'm there?
Thanks for any help or nugget of advice you can give!!!