I am in my second year of A levels and have recently decided I want to study medicine at University. I came to this decision too late as the medicine deadline for this year has already passed so I am planning on taking a gap year and applying next year, in my gap year I will do work experience and volunteering.
However I am considering applying for mathematics this year (as deferred entry) so if I fail the UKCAT I have a plan B and do not have to take another gap year. I already have a maths personal statement which I wrote before I decided to do medicine so I feel like I might as well just apply. However I was wondering, if I apply for maths will this look bad when I'm applying for medicine as it may show I am not fully committed to medicine? Also if I apply for medicine next year and don't get any offers does this mean my offer for maths will go because you can only apply once?