Stressed incoming UCL Student

Calm down and breathe. First of all you should do a degree you enjoy and shouldn’t be trying to change to STEM just for the sake of supposed better job opportunities if you don’t actually like science, because they’re difficult enough degrees as they are, and if there’s no passion there it’ll be torture.

Second, I think you’re stressing too much before you’ve even started the degree. Again, breathe. Once you actually start studying and get into your later years you will have a much better idea of what it is you want. And if you find you want a career in psychology then you will need to do the extra years of clinical or whatever’s required, just like a doctor has to do their rotations and so on. And you may actually enjoy this if you’re passionate about working in the field.

If you don’t want to do psychology then there’s even less reason to worry because you can apply to a much wider range of roles that a lot of people with degrees go for: teaching, business, data analysts, law, finance, marketing and so on. The options are almost unlimited here. You won’t be at a disadvantage because you have a psychology degree.