HSFY is chaotic - feel free to add to the rant/discussion
Please feel free to indulge in my questions and rants as I process my spiralling feelings about this course.
It’s absolutely insane the thresholds to get into these professional programmes and I can’t comprehend how people are able to get such high grades like 93%+. I’m praying on the chance that the 2026 cohort isn’t as strong as the previous years bc wdym the lowest acceptance rate into dentistry in 2025 was greater than 96% 😭
My dream is to get into med and I didn’t exactly get the grades I wanted in sem 1. As a result I have been going into rabbit holes about it over this mid year break as to how I can improve in sem 2 and the statistics of everything etc. I really want to keep trying but can’t help but feel like there’s no chance for me anymore to get into med lol.
Why have these thresholds skyrocketed? Could it be to do with AI? Should the medical school consider other ways to, I guess in a loose sense, even out the playing field? While intelligence and academics is important, there’s so much more to being a dentist and doctor than academics. My parents told me they could’ve never achieved the grades I have in their first year of uni, and one of my parents did HSFY back in the 90s! Am interested to hear people’s thoughts on all of this and their complaints about the flaws of HSFY.