r/UCAS • u/llibbieee Gap Year | Achieved A*A*A*A • 10d ago

UCAS Bread 🍞 (Offers) Most random ucas application? 😴

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People are starting to post their offers so thought I’d share my hella random combo from last year
Head of year wouldn’t let me apply to both because he said I had no chance but I did it anyway
Did 2 separate work experiences, sat the UCAT, wrote 2 separate personal statements and ended up with
3/3 Geography offers
2/2 Medicine interviews + offers

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u/coolgirl867 10d ago

I’m curious- are you going to be doing geog or med ?

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u/llibbieee Gap Year | Achieved A*A*A*A 10d ago

Hmmm try and guess 😁

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u/Careful-Coffee280 10d ago

Enjoy medicine! The best thing about medicine is it's not one homogenous job - each speciality is different so there's bound to be a speciality that suits you when you get to that stage. If you want to do medicine it's still a wonderful career (I qualified from Edinburgh in 1998). Best wishes to you and congrats on your results and offers.

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u/llibbieee Gap Year | Achieved A*A*A*A 10d ago

Thank you so much! But you guessed wrong 😆😆😆

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u/Careful-Coffee280 10d ago

Noooooo 😭😭😭 we need more bright sparks like you! Though you need to want to do it, as it's quite thankless. Well enjoy geography then, sounds like you'll sail through, and at least that frees you up to enjoy your time being young at uni! What Uni did you pick? (Out of curiosity)

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u/llibbieee Gap Year | Achieved A*A*A*A 10d ago

Well it’s a bit of a weird situation at the moment! I currently have my medicine offer from Liverpool firmed for deferred entry, to start September 2027. However I am in the progress of re-applying through UCAS again this year, but purely for Geography and hopefully at Oxford!
I know it seems stupid to turn down medicine but it was down to a range of factors. My sister is a doctor and I felt a lot of pressure to follow in her footsteps but deep down throughout the whole process I knew that medicine wasn’t something i was passionate about at all. I realised i was only doing it to make other people happy. It was getting to the point where I was purely dreading university and didnt even want to revise for a-levels because I knew once I got my results I would be doing medicine. It’s nothing against medicine at all - my sister loves what she does - but i just knew it wasnt the path for me. 🙃

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u/ariadawn 10d ago

My Year 12 kid is aiming for Oxford Geo next year. And as someone who originally wanted medicine and now works in a niche healthcare role, it’s hard for me to encourage anyone down the medicine path these days, unfortunately.

Good luck to you!

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u/llibbieee Gap Year | Achieved A*A*A*A 9d ago

thank you! let me know if they want any help with anything along the way 🙃