Official Optometry Applicants thread 2024

Who’s applying for optometry this year, how are you feeling about it and what experience do you have?

omggg no way, end of years didn’t go so good either, stressed but ready for my summer academic comeback💪 hopefully i can try and work on my chemistry. I have like care home volunteering experience but I’m gonna try and ask to go specsavers or any opticians and shadow. What exactly did u do and how did u ask them?

i had an eye test at my local specsavers last year and so i just asked the optician for work experience there and then

what did you do with them also where u tryna apply too

i shadowed a few opticians during the eye tests and did a bit of pre-screening exams myself but i was mainly just on the shop floor for the most of it talking to the pre-regs that were there. i live in brum so aston would probs be my top choice but honestly just need my predicted to be patterned by next year. wbu

i went to the open day in aston today it was so nice wth, really wanna go aston ugh. ou okay i defo need to get some work exp then cus that sounds nice. yh aston grades are quite high lol chemistry needs to be patttterned cus i dont do 3 sciences i do bio chem psych so the grades i need is AAA ffs

yeahh i went too, i do 2 sciences aswell but bio maths and psych. they've really increased the grades since past years when people were getting in with bbc but they did say if the interview goes really well theyll lower it to AAB.

Who’s applying for optometry this year, how are you feeling about it and what experience do you have?

ahh im applying for both biochem and optometry bc im like really indecisive, I haven't acc done any work exp yet but I am doing it over the summer w my cousin for like a week bc he is an optometrist but yeah idk

Ou what makes you want to do biochem and what makes you want to do optometry, they're quite different

I’m thinking of applying to optom. I originally wanted to do dentistry but I’ve been interested in optom, I’ve got no work experience, how did you guys get optom related work experiment. I’m thinking of applying to the foundation year

i was interested in med too but swithced to optom. i dont have any optom w/e idk how much of an issue itll be , only pharmacy and hospital
i really wanna find a virtual one or some sort of ted talk or something giving insight into optom for personal statement
why foundation year? subjects or pred grades or?

I need to do a foundation year because i only have bio and they want 2 sciences, i have psych too but not all of them accept it as the science unfortunately

i was interested in med too but swithced to optom. i dont have any optom w/e idk how much of an issue itll be , only pharmacy and hospital
i really wanna find a virtual one or some sort of ted talk or something giving insight into optom for personal statement
why foundation year? subjects or pred grades or?