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Retake chemistry for medicine or accept psychology

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On Sunday, I got my IB results, and I found out the grade I got for chemistry wasn't going to get me into medicine, but my overall grades would get me into psychology. My whole life, I've been wanting to do medicine, and now, backing out on it makes me feel uneasy, but that's not to say I don't have a passion in psychology. What makes it harder to choose is that I have career paths for both degrees: medicine is a neurosurgeon, and psychology is a clinical psychologist/neuropsychologist. I don't want to be ungrateful and reject my place, but I also don't want to go to this uni because it's really far from home (durham) and when I went there I didn't really enjoy it as much as I know I should if I'm going to a degree there. I feel like if I retake chem, I can do better, but hardly any unis take resits, and the ones that do aren't Russell group, which I know doesn't matter, but I already feel like a failure, so I want to make this situation better. I just need help to think before I go through with anything!

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Have you considered looking at clearing options for psychology if Durham isnt in a good location?

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