Hello!
New member to this site (Don't really know where to ask for help so I hope this is the an acceptable place for questions)
I just wanted to ask for some advice regarding 2019. I completed year 12 this year and sat the UMAT. My UMAT was a 31 percentile and my ATAR was a 98.15 raw (99.80 adjusted score). As you can see by my username, the only option I have in life is to be a cardiothoracic surgeon because of religious reasons but I am not sure how to get there as my UMAT was poor this year. I currently live in Adelaide and plan on living here so could I please ask, Should I take like a gap year (working/volunteering at a medical place & sitting the UCAT) or do some degree instead? If so which sort of degree would be most useful for my cardiac surgeon goal? Would some degree such as Paramedic Science be good? Could you possibly also explain how the graduate entry method works because I have read the "common pitfalls..." post but am still quite confused about how the graduate entry pathway works
Thank you very much for the support!
If someone could reply to this as soon as possible, that would be greatly appreciated as preference changing has a deadline of the 3rd Jan (satac)
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