I’ve been stressed and depressed since results day.
From getting rejected by my firm (Queen Mary), thinking of going to my insurance only to see how bad it is (Westminister) and going through clearing and getting into a good uni only to find it’s too faraway for my liking and on my campus visit just didn’t like it (Royal Holloway University)
Hence I’ve ultimately decided to just take a gap year and resit bio and chem that I’m confident I can get an A in this time round hence pushing my grades to AAB
However, what I’m worried about is what if resit and the universities I want to go to like kings and queen Mary don’t accept resits (and I don’t know if my extenuating circumstances are satisfying)
(There’s also the whole ucas application stress because if I decided to defer my year at RHUL or if I go back; Westminster, I can’t apply through ucas during my deferred year, so it’s either not doing an application until reuslts day and having a referee on hand or rejecting my place at uni this year and not having a guaranteed place at university for next year just in case my resits somehow go awful)
(As well as that because I can’t afford to enroll at sixth form and college and pay tuition fees for retaking year 13, so I’ll be studying independently and taking the resits at an exam centre or school, I’m gonna be charged council tax and rent and stuff which is all new to me, and I feel bad about putting more burden on my parents shoulder even though I’m gonna work during my year and help out)
I’m just worried that QM and kings won’t consider me even if I let’s say called them during clearing next year because of my grades being resit
I don’t know, the other option would be to start pharmacology at westminister and resit during my first year there and then try to transfer, but considering resit results come out during August it’ll be too late to transfer so idk.
Taking a gap year and resitting is the best option but I don’t know if it’s going to be considered for the London universities I want to apply to.
I’m gonna call kings and queens tomorrow about it and ask them.
(Btw I had slight extenuating circumstances throughout my exams, my mental health was really bad, my anxiety had been through the roof and there was a lot of stuff going on at home like a lot of screaming and violence, but I was too ashamed and scared to tell my GP about it when she was writing a medical note for me)