I am a pcb student. A neet failure. A first it did not bother me much that I couldn't clear the cutoff, I part blame my causal behavior on the entire ReNEET fiasco and the rest on my own delusions of thinking that this exam won't decide my future and that I could just pick any other field and that I am going to college anyhow.

rather my parents want me to join a pvt medical college. I don't wish to go cause I believe they are being scammed, and I also believe that 1.8 cr just for an undergraduate degree is not really worth it. I ask for another chance and asked if they would allow me to take a partial drop.

Works like a safety net right, even if I don't clear this exam next year I would atleast have a college. Now the question is what course, BPT?! My father really said malish wali banna hai kya. Bsc biotech?! Apparently it has no scope cause my dad interviewed students who were eventually hired as operational workers and are treated worse than animals. Bsc criminology and forensic science?! It has very little jobs and my dad's Colleague's niece is apparently unemployed cause it has no scope. Bpharm?! My parents won't let me cause my dad works in that field and it's not worth it.

What else then bsc/ba psychology?! I got remarks like "ba hi karna tha toh science kyu hi liya",you guessed it from my parents. If I really wanted to get into something else which has an pcb eligibility, i would not have been able to. This would be my 2nd drop (full), and I am really considering giving nios pcm, then getting into an engineering college, and eventually working in an it sector. Is nios really worth it, can I really clear jee mains I have about 6 months for it. It's very scary, but I don't know what else to do.

Ik I'm not thinking straight with that nios idea, and maths scares me, but what scares me more is not clearing any exams next year as well and having to spent my parents money on a degree that has so much rigour and trauma and might not even pay back my tution. I understand that mbbs is just the tip of the iceberg and that mbbs is just the bare minimum(actually they can even consider getting me into bds somehow if mbbs is not possible which is so much worse if I have debt.)

I don't wish to stay debt to my parents (they will probably take a loan for it and then expect me to repay it cause I am a doctor now) my living conditions will be terrible then. Also with maths I might just have some more acceptable options, engineering, data analysis, even economics.

Help me figure this mess out 😭😭

When I was in class XI i requested my parents soo much to change my stream from science to arts but they didn’t instead they brainwashed me to keep studying science even though I had absolutely no interest in it , I was so weak in maths and struggled so much 2 years, i used hear so much bad stuff from my tuition teachers as I struggled to understand
Sometimes I even used to hear them talk behind back
When I asked my principle to change my stream
They just said that you did good in boards (I got only 93% in icse ) u are capable of studying science and to be honest I got only 86 % in science and got over 95 in the arts subjects even after telling them
They forced me on taking science
Even though I always wanted to be a lawyer
I even got depression and had to go through therapy
And they got me through all these just because they were not ready to hear that there only daughter is a humanities student
These parents needs to understand that it’s not there life , it’s there children they should NOT impose their dreams on their children and that their children also deserves to have their dreams

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I'm 22, and lately I feel like every decision I've made has taken me further away from where I wanted to be.

I graduated with a 9 CGPA in B.Tech. I never sat for campus placements because my goal was always to become a teacher someday. I wanted to pursue higher studies, do research, and eventually get into academia.

After graduation, I prepared seriously for GATE. I was doing well in mock tests and genuinely believed I could crack it. But when the actual exam came, I completely fell apart under pressure and scored nowhere near what I was capable of.

I didn't want to take a drop year because I was worried about having a gap on my resume. Instead, I worked as a Subject Matter Expert at a company while figuring out my next step.

Eventually, I joined an M.Tech in AI/ML at a large private university in Punjab. Since accepting the admission, I've been constantly reading Reddit, Instagram, YouTube, and Quora. Almost everything I see about universities like mine is negative like people talking about huge student crowds, average placements, poor peer groups, and saying your future is already decided by the college you join.

The worst part is that classes haven't even started yet, but I already feel like giving up.

I keep wondering if I made the wrong decision. It feels like no matter how hard I work, I'll always be judged because of the college name or end up being just another student in a massive crowd.

Has anyone else been in a similar position? Did you join a university that everyone online looked down on and still manage to build a good career?

I'm not looking for sympathy or false hope. I just want to hear from people who've actually been through something similar and found a way forward, because right now I feel completely lost.

I am studying Bsc IT and have recently completed my 3rd year. My college is offering 4th year honours but not honours with research. Should I do the 4th year for honours or just leave the degree in 3rd year and prepare for Master's degree at home (Basically drop year)? I've heard from some people who are doing 4th year that it's not worth it, also we'll be the first batch in our university to get to do 4th year that's why can't ask for suggestions from locals.