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I’m hoping to go into med in September I’m just wondering are the lectures mandatory?It’s just for commuting home on Fridays. Ik labs and stuff are.

Unfortunately, with medicine being so competitive, a lot of people are going to miss out on a place this year, even if they have excellent Leaving Cert and HPAT results. It got me wondering what everyone's backup plan is if things don't work out this time around.

Are you planning to:

• Repeat the HPAT while keeping your Leaving Cert?
• Repeat both the HPAT and the Leaving Cert?
• Start another degree and aim for Graduate Entry Medicine (GEM)?
• Do another undergraduate course and redo the hpat (this is what I did!)
• Study abroad?
• Or decide that medicine isn't for you anymore?

I'm also curious about why you've chosen that route. Is it because it's the quickest path, the cheapest option, a safer backup, or because you've genuinely found another career you'd be happy with?

It'd be interesting to hear what everyone's thinking, especially since there are probably quite a few people quietly worrying about this but not talking about it.

Ive recieve a deferred place to study pharm in ucc, they told me to put it at the bottom of my cao so that i can then compete for other courses if i want them more. So i did the hpat and have a good score that should guarentee me a spot in Medicine, but i want to have the ucc pharm as a guarentee backup if something insane happens.

But ive just after going onto my cao to update my perferances, and it says at the bottom to select if im a deferred applicant, and it says i am only allowed to put my deferred course and thats it, and if I put down more I void my deferred spot and will have to compete against everyone else if september for that spot, is this right?

So after HPAT results what are we thinking

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We are going all in

Im just after getting my hpat results, and ive gotten enough for ucc, can anyone tell me what the course is like. Lecturers, labs, people etc

So i just got my HPAT results today, and ive gotten enough points for anywhere, is there any unis that would boost your chances of getting BST/CST or does it matter at all.

How we feeling? Hopeful, nervous, excited?

What are the main factors that influence where u want study?

HL Maths Is NOT that HARD, idk why so many people are complaining about it

Hi, I sat the HPAT this year (not sure how it went yet), but medicine is definitely what I want to do long term, so I’d be open to going the GEM route if needed.

I did my Leaving Cert last year and got 613 points, so I was thinking of doing pharmacy. Would that be a good course for GEM, or are there other courses people would recommend that are more useful/better preparation?

Thanks

I was wondering what actually makes the MCAT so difficult. I don’t know a huge amount about it, but aren’t 2 out of the 4 sections based on material you would already have covered in college? Isnt this why so many people do badly in CARS?

I’m applying for medicine in Ireland, where you can go straight from highschool, so our admissions exam is very different. The whole thing is based more on critical thinking, abstract reasoning, and interpersonal understanding rather than specific academic content.

Also, why do people retake the MCAT even when they already have a score good enough for a DO school? Does getting into an MD school really make that big of a difference?

Ive completed first yr of engineering and realised the course is not for me, ive applied for med. If i get it how much will the fees be in first yr, 10K? And will it just be the 3K in the subsequent yrs, since ive only done 1st yr of engineering?

Hi, not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I’m thinking about studying Medicine in UCC and wanted to hear from people who’ve actually been there.

What’s the course like in terms of workload, teaching, placements, student life, etc.? Would you recommend UCC for Medicine, or would you choose somewhere else if you had the choice again?

Any advice or experiences would be really appreciated.