Dealing with medicine rejections (a very big rant sorry)

I’m a year 13 student and I just received 2 uni offers for medicine. I’m so happy and relieved because I’m one step closer to becoming a doctor and the application process was so stressful!! But at the same time I’m still really upset that I'm not going to my 2 dream unis because my ucat score wasn't high enough. I feel so guilty that I’m still really upset about this because at least I was lucky enough to get offers (and I’m so grateful that I have them) and I know that many people would love to be in my position but I can’t stop thinking about what life would have been like if I had gone to those 2 unis. I really wanna stay in the city I currently live in and the uni which is in my city is a good uni for teaching but it’s in a pretty unsafe and not very nice area and I always imagined the uni I would go to would be in a super fancy area (I know i sound really spoilt right now but I’m trying so hard to stop thinking this way and I can’t - it’s been about 8 months since I did the ucat and I'm still thinking about what could have been). People always say don’t complain about not going to the best uni for medicine because where you study doesn’t matter (which is so true), but it was always a personal goal for myself and something I aspired to achieve, and I feel like I’ve let myself down and also let my mum down because she was always rooting for me to go to the best unis and supported me so much throughout school, only for me to go and mess up the UCAT. I am never going to reject my offers and reapply because while I am upset, I’ll always pick being a doctor over going to the best uni, but I can’t stop thinking about what my life would have been like if I had gotten into my dream unis - does anyone have some advice about how to stop thinking this way (especially when my friends are getting offers to these unis and other top unis and have talked bad about the unis I have offers from before finding out they were my top choices)? I haven’t told anyone how I’m feeling because I know I’m being really ungrateful by still being upset despite having offers but I want to finally be able to move on so I can properly be happy with what I have.

as someone who has had no offers and only rejections it’s best to think that rejection is redirection and that that path wasn’t meant for you and that the unis that have accepted you (that weren’t your top choice) may be better for you in the long run. Sorry you had to go through that i know how difficult the process is

aint no thing as a redirection its nottingham trent clearing for you buddy

enjoy your unemployable biomedical degree

I’m a year 13 student and I just received 2 uni offers for medicine. I’m so happy and relieved because I’m one step closer to becoming a doctor and the application process was so stressful!! But at the same time I’m still really upset that I'm not going to my 2 dream unis because my ucat score wasn't high enough. I feel so guilty that I’m still really upset about this because at least I was lucky enough to get offers (and I’m so grateful that I have them) and I know that many people would love to be in my position but I can’t stop thinking about what life would have been like if I had gone to those 2 unis. I really wanna stay in the city I currently live in and the uni which is in my city is a good uni for teaching but it’s in a pretty unsafe and not very nice area and I always imagined the uni I would go to would be in a super fancy area (I know i sound really spoilt right now but I’m trying so hard to stop thinking this way and I can’t - it’s been about 8 months since I did the ucat and I'm still thinking about what could have been). People always say don’t complain about not going to the best uni for medicine because where you study doesn’t matter (which is so true), but it was always a personal goal for myself and something I aspired to achieve, and I feel like I’ve let myself down and also let my mum down because she was always rooting for me to go to the best unis and supported me so much throughout school, only for me to go and mess up the UCAT. I am never going to reject my offers and reapply because while I am upset, I’ll always pick being a doctor over going to the best uni, but I can’t stop thinking about what my life would have been like if I had gotten into my dream unis - does anyone have some advice about how to stop thinking this way (especially when my friends are getting offers to these unis and other top unis and have talked bad about the unis I have offers from before finding out they were my top choices)? I haven’t told anyone how I’m feeling because I know I’m being really ungrateful by still being upset despite having offers but I want to finally be able to move on so I can properly be happy with what I have.

I’m a year 13 student and I just received 2 uni offers for medicine. I’m so happy and relieved because I’m one step closer to becoming a doctor and the application process was so stressful!! But at the same time I’m still really upset that I'm not going to my 2 dream unis because my ucat score wasn't high enough. I feel so guilty that I’m still really upset about this because at least I was lucky enough to get offers (and I’m so grateful that I have them) and I know that many people would love to be in my position but I can’t stop thinking about what life would have been like if I had gone to those 2 unis. I really wanna stay in the city I currently live in and the uni which is in my city is a good uni for teaching but it’s in a pretty unsafe and not very nice area and I always imagined the uni I would go to would be in a super fancy area (I know i sound really spoilt right now but I’m trying so hard to stop thinking this way and I can’t - it’s been about 8 months since I did the ucat and I'm still thinking about what could have been). People always say don’t complain about not going to the best uni for medicine because where you study doesn’t matter (which is so true), but it was always a personal goal for myself and something I aspired to achieve, and I feel like I’ve let myself down and also let my mum down because she was always rooting for me to go to the best unis and supported me so much throughout school, only for me to go and mess up the UCAT. I am never going to reject my offers and reapply because while I am upset, I’ll always pick being a doctor over going to the best uni, but I can’t stop thinking about what my life would have been like if I had gotten into my dream unis - does anyone have some advice about how to stop thinking this way (especially when my friends are getting offers to these unis and other top unis and have talked bad about the unis I have offers from before finding out they were my top choices)? I haven’t told anyone how I’m feeling because I know I’m being really ungrateful by still being upset despite having offers but I want to finally be able to move on so I can properly be happy with what I have.