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Uni Stuff => General University Discussion and Queries => Topic started by: shonakennedy on December 15, 2008, 05:01:51 pm
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i know i am. i got 15 more than i expected! which is good, but it also means that it would be fair lame to settle for my mediocure nursing degree. i mean, someone with high 60's can get in and it almost seems as though i would be "wasting" my enterscore if i decided to go down that path.
anyone else feel this way?
can anyone offer some advice? im completelly at a lost as to what i should do, and we only have a few days to decide!!!!!!! :o :( :o
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Don't feel like you're "wasting" yourself just because you can easily get into your degree. If you feel like you could do more with your talents, then look into it. But make sure you're doing something that you're interested in.
i.e. you should look into other degrees that you might be interested in (biomed perhaps? I don't know).
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thanks :)
i wish i could get into biomed. i didnt do well enough for that.
hmmm i got 85.8.... so what courses could i get into with that? :S like medical/health/helping/psych/nursing/anatomy. i have no idea now. anything really i guess related to anything as mentioned. lol. i phail.
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Don't feel like you're "wasting" yourself just because you can easily get into your degree. If you feel like you could do more with your talents, then look into it. But make sure you're doing something that you're interested in.
i.e. you should look into other degrees that you might be interested in (biomed perhaps? I don't know).
Yeah I agree, just because the ENTER is low for the course you wanted to do, doesn't mean you should change courses, and it most certainly does not mean it will be easier than other courses... Keep that in mind, also another thing you might like to do is look at the course outline in detail, try figure out if that's the course you really want.
Oh and you might like to look at ACU in regards to midwifery, nursing and similar courses... I heard they have a pretty good range of courses to choose from.
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science at melb but take biomed subjects
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also im in a similar predicament, wanted science but can now get into bio med
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:) thanks guys. i never considered moving away from home because the city scares me! im a country kid. lol. 2 hours from sky scrapers is a long way. but now that i have my enter, its like well what the heck, why not try it? gahhhh choices and decissions are too hard. i want someone to make up my mind for meeee.
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Well if you do decide to go to a university in melbourne, you'll probably live on campus where you'll find that most kids there are themselves from the country, so everyone is in the same boat. However nursing courses in the city are not inherently better than those in the country. Ballarat University has a very popular nursing program, as does ACU
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:) thanks guys. i never considered moving away from home because the city scares me! im a country kid. lol. 2 hours from sky scrapers is a long way. but now that i have my enter, its like well what the heck, why not try it? gahhhh choices and decissions are too hard. i want someone to make up my mind for meeee.
the city rocks, always something to do and somewhere to go
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hehe sweet. any other courses people would recommend that isnt nursing? (i want to do nursing i think. but i was just wondering if there is anything simmilar or interesting out there.)
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I 've always thought that paramedics would be one of the most enjoyable courses to do
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I 've always thought that paramedics would be one of the most enjoyable courses to do
hehe that would be my first preference if the enter wasnt something like 94!
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The ENTER required for your course has more to do with demand than with course difficulty. You wouldn't be wasting your intelligence on a course with a lower ENTER score, because all that means is that you're picking a course that isn't all that popular.
If nursing is truly what you want to do, then you have to go for it! You shouldn't just pick something else that requires a higher ENTER and will ultimately leave you unhappy. However, if you decided that you wanted to do nursing in the first place because that's all you thought you could get into, you really should rethink. Somehow though, I don't think that's the case here.
All you need to do is ask yourself if nursing is what you want to do with your life. If the answer is 'yes', then everything else is irrelevant.
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The ENTER required for your course has more to do with demand than with course difficulty. You wouldn't be wasting your intelligence on a course with a lower ENTER score, because all that means is that you're picking a course that isn't all that popular.
If nursing is truly what you want to do, then you have to go for it! You shouldn't just pick something else that requires a higher ENTER and will ultimately leave you unhappy. However, if you decided that you wanted to do nursing in the first place because that's all you thought you could get into, you really should rethink. Somehow though, I don't think that's the case here.
All you need to do is ask yourself if nursing is what you want to do with your life. If the answer is 'yes', then everything else is irrelevant.
that was awesome advice :) thank you. i think i mostly chose nursing because i thought it would be easy to get into. but then again i have become very passionate about it on my journey! hmmm. choices choices. if i cant get into paramedicince, what else is there...
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Lolz, I got better than expected. :P... But it won't change my preference of law!!!
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The only waste of your ENTER score would be if you used it to get into a course you didn't want to do. From your posts here, you're clearly passionate about nursing / the medical field, and it takes that kind of passion to do well.
A nursing degree is NOT MEDIOCRE!!! Australia needs more nurses!
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naww thanks ninwa. well if you can tell from a forum that im passionate it would be silly of me to choose anything else i would think. thanks for helping me with my decision. i intend to do post grad med anyway so my first degree in escence is only a stepping stone. hmmm. yes nursing and midwifery is for me. watch out, ill be delivering your babies *does crazy face*
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I 've always thought that paramedics would be one of the most enjoyable courses to do
hehe that would be my first preference if the enter wasnt something like 94!
There was an enter stated? wdff!!
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More than likely it was the double: nursing/emergency health
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yeah the double was what i was referring to.
its all good now.
i have my licence, went to qld, decided to do nursing/midwifery and its nearly christmas! all it well :)
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you keep forgetting that im not from melb. very far from it. over here, you can do any degree and get into post grad med. and they actually suggest nursing as the stepping stone in. i know you have to do biomed and sciences over in melb tho. must suck.