[fewtinsoffroth]

Originally Posted by Togepi

I'm surprised so many people are planning on doing the first year of a course and then going into medicine if they get in. Isn't that going to cost you around €4,000 or something for doing first year twice?

I think for Med you're looking at €10,000+

[NoHarm1994]

Originally Posted by fewtinsoffroth

I think for Med you're looking at €10,000+

Disaster.

[fewtinsoffroth]

Ahh but the morgues don't pay for themselves

[Togepi]

Originally Posted by fewtinsoffroth

I think for Med you're looking at €10,000+

My god!

Surely doing anything/nothing for a year is better than that?!

[fewtinsoffroth]

But what if you don't get a high enough hpat score again?

If you think of all the people who take out loans of €120,000+ to go back via the gamsat route, €10,000 kinda pales in comparison. It's still 10k that a student doesn't have though, and a med student probably shouldn't have that much time for working.

[NoHarm1994]

It is easier than that though just apply for another (lower points) course that you would like to do ie Science/Physio etc, accept it in August then defer your place for the year, then repeat the Hpat and if you get enough do med if you don't at least you have another course in the wings! However like I said again I don't fancy staying at home while everyone else I know is in college

[fewtinsoffroth]

I could be wrong, but when you defer, the following year you can only put that 1 course on your cao form.

But if you have a bunch of points you probably wouldn't need to defer anyway?

[Togepi]

Originally Posted by fewtinsoffroth

I could be wrong, but when you defer, the following year you can only put that 1 course on your cao form.

But if you have a bunch of points you probably wouldn't need to defer anyway?

Right and right again, it's fairly unlikely you'd need to defer anything if you were going for such high points, there's only a few courses where you might need to.

[NoHarm1994]

Well for example, lets say I got Med in Galway next year, my thoughts were that I would defer my place there and try my hand at the Hpat again to try and get a spot in Dublin somewhere. However if I didn't get enough at least I would still have my place in Galway?
From what I can take from what yous are saying I cant do that can I?

[fewtinsoffroth]

Originally Posted by NoHarm1994

Well for example, lets say I got Med in Galway next year, my thoughts were that I would defer my place there and try my hand at the Hpat again to try and get a spot in Dublin somewhere. However if I didn't get enough at least I would still have my place in Galway?
From what I can take from what yous are saying I cant do that can I?

Well you can sit the hpat again, but you can't apply for any other courses except NUIG med.

So even if you do end up with a higher hpat score, it'll be another year before you can use it.

edit To clarify, that's assuming you have deferred NUIG med.

[NoHarm1994]

Originally Posted by fewtinsoffroth

Well you can sit the hpat again, but you can't apply for any other courses except NUIG med.

So even if you do end up with a higher hpat score, it'll be another year before you can use it.

edit To clarify, that's assuming you have deferred NUIG med.

Ok thanks I never knew that, well serves me right for doing s**t in the Hpat. Decisions will have to be made after the big LC anyway!!

[QueenOfLeon]

Originally Posted by fewtinsoffroth

I think for Med you're looking at €10,000+

Its around €8000.

If the first year of the degree you started allows you to skip premed due to the modules you studied (which is at the discretion of the college), you may not have to pay the fees as if you were repeating first year, as you're technically going into 2nd year. Again, this is at the discretion of the college, and I can't speak for everywhere, so don't depend on that.