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Again I do not really understand your point. It seems you believe you have a point, but whatever it is, you seem to have coated it with a thick layer of bias against students "who couldn't get in at 18".

Why is it a huge waste of taxpayers' resources to support students who wish to take the path I describe? How do you qualify that amazing assertion about students who have not even embarked upon even a single year yet of Higher Education? Actually I should ask what do you think qualifies you to make such a statement?

Why are you splitting hairs between someone at 18 who is showing good tendency to not only have formulated but is following some kind of plan which might involve taking a related bio-sciences first degree and then pursuing medicine which you say is a waste, and the type of "undecided at 18" you are bigging up i.e. someone who doesn't have such a plan as an undergraduate, but ends up "wanting" to do medicine after their first degree anyway?

Why would such people necessarily bring a "wealth" of anything to what you call 'GEP' courses or medicine? The jobs market for graduates is so dire now that the chances of graduating, entering the jobs market and then quickly getting any experience that will bring a wealth of anything to any scenario within medicine is extremely thin. Surely unless you have some particular types of experience in mind, what you have presented is just loose wishful thinking?

I would just as happily see someone with a good sense of their own limitations and a real plan take the study route I described than I would favour someone with a big brain on paper who didn't manage to crystalise any real plan until 3, 4, 5 or more years later at 21, 22, 23 or more and is I suggest just as likely to be still thrashing around unable to see any clear image of their own future.

I think we need people in medicine who can demonstrate that they can manage visions of their own futures. Afterall, soon enough in medicine we will be entrusting them with responsibility for formulating visions of the futures of other people (their patients).