Hi guys πŸ™‚
I'm currently in year 11 and I'm sort of having a crisis between whether or not I should do medicine. I'm stressing out because my tutor told me that ideally to get into pre-med you should start preparing for it in year 10. However, in year 10 I decided that medicine is super hard to get into and I should just choose something else. Then I decided to research about law and being a lawyer and found it quite an interesting profession. But now I want to get into medicine and I'm really not sure if I'll be prepared for the UCAT next year and if I'm smart enough to get into either.

Please if anyone could offer any advice on this that would be great. 😭

what subjects are you taking rn? I'm doing QCE currently in year 11 and had the exact same problem at the start of the year😭
Medicine and law are both super competitive degrees which need high atars, ik a lot of my friends who are wanting to study medicine started UCAT prep throughout the term 2 and 3 holidays this year, while some of them haven't started any prep. I had asked a couple of my friends who are currently studying medicine when they started UCAT prep and quite a few of them said they started pretty late, which they lowkey ended up later regretting as they didn't do as well as they hoped with their UCAT, but had their atar (most of them ranging between 93-99) and interview to fall back on. One of them was lucky enough to get early entry at James Cook for biomed so didn't worry to much about his UCAT. Though this doesn't mean that it is too late to start UCAT prep. Some people are able to only do 1-2 months of prep and still get in the 90th and 95th percentile (score needed for medicine), whereas others need 3-6 months. At the end of the day it really just comes down to what your capable of as a person.

One thing to keep in mind is they both have quite different prerequisites. With medicine you def want either biology, chemistry or physics + methods as these subjects will make it a lot easier to go into, whereas for law you mostly only need english.

I definitely think law and med are degrees that you need to have passion for in order to pursue them or you'll more than likely end up regretting going into them, I would recommend choosing the one that you feel is more interesting to you, as your more likely to do better in it. Also keep in mind that if you do end up choosing just law or medicine you are still able to do a double degree in law and biomed/law and science, so your options are still open in case you want to pursue a career in either one.

    emvver I'm doing vce so maths methods, general maths, bio, chem, and literature lol I'm thinking of doing eco next yr 😭

    Thank you soooo much for your insight!! πŸ™‚) Have you decided what you wanna do? If you decided med did you start UCAT prep then? I didn't know you could do a double degree so maybe I'll consider that but I feel like the atar requirements would go really high. Maybe doing like a bachelors then considering post-grad med or law could be an option, and I maybe wouldn't have to get a crazy atar.

      luvmins I ended up deciding to do law and hopefully do a double degree in either law/business, law/commerce or law/compsci😭. I do chem, bio, pysch, english, design and general maths (dropped out of methods in term 1 lol). As for UCAT, it really just comes down to how much your capable of. If you still want to go into med and think your able to start UCAT prep now then def go for it.

      There are a few uni's that don't require UCAT, but each of those have their own admission system, and some uni's only offer medicine as a post-grad degree.

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        that sounds good, I feel like a double degree is really great if you have more aspirations for education. I decided I wanna do law as well because I really don't think i'd be able to handle the stress of school and preparing for the ucat and medicine is SO competitive i just can't 😭

        emvver

        omg have you seen griffith university? They don't need UCAT but need an ATAR of like 99.85. Crazy.

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