Hi all,
So I need serious advice because I don’t know what I should do anymore. My dream as a child was to study medicine, and even now it’s still my biggest dream. But circumstances meant I couldn’t take my GCSEs because of COVID and consequently my GCSE results were below the average and not as competitive as I would’ve preferred.
Then I’ll take responsibility and say that my A level experience was pretty much a car crash, as I was going through a lot in the past 2 years (I know that no medical university will take account of though). I walked away with 3 Bs and I knew that it wouldn’t be good enough to apply so here I am now in my gap year.
I actually did apply for pharmacy this year, and my thought process was that if I still wanted to do med at the end of the degree, then I could maybe apply to do it as a postgrad degree? But I know how competitive this is too, so now I’ve been thrown off balance.
Ideally, I should have resat my A levels during my gap year but I didn’t really consider doing this at the time. My point is, would it be pointless taking another year out to resit my A levels and then applying for medicine? Or am I just better off pursuing the pharmacy degree?
I don’t really want to give up this time so I need advice on which path is the most viable. Advice is appreciated!