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Medicine after a year of science?

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  • 03-10-2010 6:05pm
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    Pamplemousse19
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭


    I'm currently in 1st year of Undenominated Science in NUIG but am thinking of switching to medicine next year. I'm hoping to repeat the HPAT as that's where I fell down with points. I was wondering if doing one year of science and then switching to medicine counts as dropping out of a degree. Will that mean that I have to pay the full fees for a new degree as normally happens when someone drops out of a degree?


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    Jessibelle
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    Pamplemousse19 wrote: »
    I'm currently in 1st year of Undenominated Science in NUIG but am thinking of switching to medicine next year. I'm hoping to repeat the HPAT as that's where I fell down with points. I was wondering if doing one year of science and then switching to medicine counts as dropping out of a degree. Will that mean that I have to pay the full fees for a new degree as normally happens when someone drops out of a degree?

    You'll have to pay full fees for the first year, and after that you'll be back on the free fees scheme :) Just to let you know though, if fees are reintroduced in the next year, because you'd be technically starting a completely new degree, you'd fall under the 'reintroduced fees' scheme, not the previous 'free fee' scheme.


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    spagboll
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    In some colleges u have to confirm attendance after christmas, ie prove you haven't dropped out so the college can claim fees from the gov.....MAYBE if u leave before chrimbo you might only have to pay half fees in 1st med, im just presuming this could be the case never heard of it tbh


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    Vorsprung
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    spagboll wrote: »
    In some colleges u have to confirm attendance after christmas, ie prove you haven't dropped out so the college can claim fees from the gov.....MAYBE if u leave before chrimbo you might only have to pay half fees in 1st med, im just presuming this could be the case never heard of it tbh

    This is the case is some colleges, but worth checking for NUIG


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    QueenOfLeon
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    Pamplemousse19 wrote: »
    I'm currently in 1st year of Undenominated Science in NUIG but am thinking of switching to medicine next year. I'm hoping to repeat the HPAT as that's where I fell down with points. I was wondering if doing one year of science and then switching to medicine counts as dropping out of a degree. Will that mean that I have to pay the full fees for a new degree as normally happens when someone drops out of a degree?

    Are you reapplying through the CAO? If so you're counted as starting first year again and have to pay fees. If you mean "switching" as in an internal transfer within the college...I've heard mixed things about it, I'd be really interested to know if its possible to count first science as similar to premed and just swap. You'd definitely need enough LC/HPAT points to get in though, as in you'd need what the requirements for 2011 are.


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    aperture_nuig
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    I know someone making exactly this switch in nuig, but shes in first year this year too and has no idea how the fees will work. It can be done though!


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    Pamplemousse19
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭Pamplemousse19


    QueenOfLeon wrote: »
    Are you reapplying through the CAO? If so you're counted as starting first year again and have to pay fees. If you mean "switching" as in an internal transfer within the college...I've heard mixed things about it, I'd be really interested to know if its possible to count first science as similar to premed and just swap. You'd definitely need enough LC/HPAT points to get in though, as in you'd need what the requirements for 2011 are.
    Well premed is practically the same as first science in NUIG. They're in all the same classes as us(except for maths which they don't do!). They also go into hospitals a bit and learn some other basic skills.


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    QueenOfLeon
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    Pamplemousse19 wrote: »
    Well premed is practically the same as first science in NUIG. They're in all the same classes as us(except for maths which they don't do!). They also go into hospitals a bit and learn some other basic skills.

    I know, I just did it ;)


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    hopesarehigh
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    Well, I thought I was the only one. You might be pleasantly surprised.. You are basically doing pre-med now! Your best bet is to work hard for now, and find out when the CAO opens what the college's procedure is, directly from them :D. fees@nuigalway.ie

    best of luck!

    :pac:If it's for you, it won't pass you.:pac:


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