Universities will not acknowledge my degree. Advice needed

Hey,

Not sure if this is the correct place to post but I am looking for advice as of what I should do as I am completely clueless. I won’t bore you with my life story, but I left school at 14 and therefore, I have no GCSE’s but I do have an upper 2:1 degree in Psychology. For what it is worth, I actually submitted my last piece of work, my dissertation, and gave birth two days later to my twins. So I am determined and committed.

I now feel this has gone to waste as no university I am considering will acknowledge my degree.

Psychology has always been a second option for me, whereas nursing has been my first choice. I did an access course many moons ago and got a selection of passes and merits. Bizarrely, I found college harder then university. I applied for nursing then, but offers got withdrawn due to the grades and went for my second option. I was unconditionally accepted given that I have 12 years experience working in care (health care assistant/support worker) and the completion of access course.

I now feel that it was a waste of time, money and paper my degree certificate is printed on as 2 of the 3 universities I am looking at will not consider it. 2 of the university’s want 5 GCSE’s (A-C) or access with a lot of distinctions and the final one wants 2 (Maths and English, A-C) on top of my degree. The second one is do-able but I don’t want to limit myself to one university. Though, I am limited to the three universities listed because I am a mature student with children - so that throws a spanner into the works.

I have no idea where to go from here. I can try again to do an access course or will it be worth it to bite the bullet and do the 5 GCSE’s? It would mean that I will have to do either 2 at college (Maths and English) as that’s the only GCSE that they do and the remaining 3 online or the total of 5 online which both universities will accept.

As cliche as it sounds, it’s always been a dream of mine to become a nurse. I just don’t know which way is best to overcome the barriers.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Hey,

Not sure if this is the correct place to post but I am looking for advice as of what I should do as I am completely clueless. I won’t bore you with my life story, but I left school at 14 and therefore, I have no GCSE’s but I do have an upper 2:1 degree in Psychology. For what it is worth, I actually submitted my last piece of work, my dissertation, and gave birth two days later to my twins. So I am determined and committed.

I now feel this has gone to waste as no university I am considering will acknowledge my degree.

Psychology has always been a second option for me, whereas nursing has been my first choice. I did an access course many moons ago and got a selection of passes and merits. Bizarrely, I found college harder then university. I applied for nursing then, but offers got withdrawn due to the grades and went for my second option. I was unconditionally accepted given that I have 12 years experience working in care (health care assistant/support worker) and the completion of access course.

I now feel that it was a waste of time, money and paper my degree certificate is printed on as 2 of the 3 universities I am looking at will not consider it. 2 of the university’s want 5 GCSE’s (A-C) or access with a lot of distinctions and the final one wants 2 (Maths and English, A-C) on top of my degree. The second one is do-able but I don’t want to limit myself to one university. Though, I am limited to the three universities listed because I am a mature student with children - so that throws a spanner into the works.

I have no idea where to go from here. I can try again to do an access course or will it be worth it to bite the bullet and do the 5 GCSE’s? It would mean that I will have to do either 2 at college (Maths and English) as that’s the only GCSE that they do and the remaining 3 online or the total of 5 online which both universities will accept.

As cliche as it sounds, it’s always been a dream of mine to become a nurse. I just don’t know which way is best to overcome the barriers.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Hey,

I am happy to do Maths/English GCSE to prove that I am capable. My degree involved a lot of research methods, statistics and data analysis and also assignments such as essays, research reports and also the dissertation. So, without blowing my own trumpet, I would think that I can achieve a GCSE.

However, my question wasnt about the ability to do drug calculations, rather do I go for the long haul and do the 5 GCSE’s or should I attempt again for access, and aim for distinctions? I don’t know which university will look more favourable towards.. if that makes sense? Alas, I will be paying for the courses so I don’t want to make another mistake.

Hey,

I am happy to do Maths/English GCSE to prove that I am capable. My degree involved a lot of research methods, statistics and data analysis and also assignments such as essays, research reports and also the dissertation. So, without blowing my own trumpet, I would think that I can achieve a GCSE.

However, my question wasnt about the ability to do drug calculations, rather do I go for the long haul and do the 5 GCSE’s or should I attempt again for access, and aim for distinctions? I don’t know which university will look more favourable towards.. if that makes sense? Alas, I will be paying for the courses so I don’t want to make another mistake.