Ask someone who just got rejected from med school anything

Ask someone who just got rejected from med school anything

When are you going to kys?

How fucked are you?

You're not special./

Whats plan B, my friend?

No idea, maybe biomedical science, maybe engineering. Guess I gotta start making decisions

After this thread

Sounds like a plan brother, that rejection is no where close to a dead end. You just have to work that much harder. Find something you are passionate about and make it your life, and you'll succeeded beyond your wildest dreams :D. btw did you get your undergrad in biology ?

Nah, here in New Zealand you can apply to med after 1st year of your undergrad, so I've only just done one year of a biomedical degree.

>New Zealand
Irrelevant

>not a US MD school

into the trash

Re-apply. Work harder and you will get in eventually. Do volunteer work in an ER, no matter how menial it is. Try to do anything extracurricular related to medicine so that it increases the value of your application.

If you really want it, you have to just try again and again, even if you are rejected, don't give up, keep trying and keep re-applying. Read up on medical texts in your spare time and learn what you can by yourself. Honestly, a lot, and I mean a lot of medicine is memorization, so it doesn't hurt to start now if you seriously want to become a doctor.

I was rejected as well. Honestly, I was happy because I really didn't want to become a doctor, and was actually relieved when I didn't get in. I was even told that I would have gotten in if I applied again next year (I think I was on a waiting list if others dropped out I would have been accepted) but it just wasn't for me. That was almost 3 years ago now.

Unfortunately here that's not how it works.
you can apply twice ever here: once after 1st year, or once after you get your degree. So it's a big investment to follow through with another 3 years of my degree just to attempt to get in again.

I got in last month. Felt good for about a week. Now I'm thinking if I even want to be a doctor. Honestly I would hate family practice or GP, probably would only be happy doing cardiology/radiology/emergency medicine, all of which are decently competitive here in the states.

So is medical school there like a replacement for a typical BS degree or something? In the states you have to go 4 years to get a BS degree and you apply during your senior year.

That sucks though, I still wouldn't give up. I'd say just get a degree, and if by the time you're finished you're still interested in medicine, go for it. Who knows though, things change, and maybe by the time you get a degree you might feel completely different about it.

You're gonna make it user

Here med school allows you to attempt first year-entry if you start a specific degree (biomedical science), but since i've jsut got rejected from that category, I'd have to do it as a post grad (basically just like how it'd work in the states)

Now my big question is whether to continue with this biomed degree since it offers no advantage to entry as a grad.

WTF has anyone proven about themselves after 1 yr undergrad??

Yeah lol.
The admission process is based more so on face to face interview (25% of criteria) to gauge your person, since you have basically no real-life experience

thanks for sharing your unnecessary / uncalled for blog with OP. This is totally the time when you should be humble bragging user, nice.

Do a year of Masters degree in same field and apply again next year

you can do it

will you commit suicide?

Most likely

Alexander?

Nah, my name starts with an M :)
Is he a friend of yours that also just got rejected?

Haha he was a friend of mine who was also doing health sci wonder if he got in. What was your average?? Had a mate get A average last year and not make it

I did biomed and got a 7.5gpa (halfway between A and A-), so it was hopeful to get in, just still kind of crushing to see that finalized rejection letter.

in the uk you dont need to prove yourself with an undergrad degree, just do A levels and go straight into med if you have the grades

Now you can go into a field that matters, like mathematics

>mathematics matters more than medicine

6/10 bait made me reply

What should I eat for dinner?

It does, it's just too hard for you so you justify your inferiority.

Am honestly considering doing physics. The problem with that is finding a job after my degree though

Is health care as incredibly fucked expensive there as it is in the US? We really need to fix our (((AMA))) here.

When they say someone if or isn't allowed to practice medicine, where's the line? I assume you're allowed to put a band aid on someone. Are you allowed to give CPR in an emergency? Can you give your kid cold medicine? Crazy glue a wound shut?

whats it like being 100k richer?

Shit, since 3 years after their degree, the doctors will all be 100k richer than me

Nah, it's socialised (I've never paid a dime from going to hospital), so the salaries are less than in the US, but still quite reasonable (80~200K for a doctor)

Whoever made that decision, he probably saved a lot of lives.