Good afternoon everyone,

I applied to study medicine in a school, I was actually offered admission to study Botany. Am in 100l first semester presently though I haven't bought this year jamb form as I didn't think about changing my course before,

The thing that discourages me is when most people ask me what course am studying and I answered "Botany" they will be like you can't get a Job if you graduate so I searched online made research about people in the field some are doing fine while many are not doing fine and it a huge money have paid for tuition fee and the rest, am really down right now if this thought came to my head when this year jamb form was still on I would have registered but have made up my mind to get another jamb form next year to apply for medicine again

Note my present CGPA for this first semester is 3.22 . Am also a very skilled IT specialist

Any advice is welcomed Thanks.

Beta focus on i.t and leave botany.its a waste of time unless u have connections after sch for good jobs

Can you cope in medicine with that Gp? It’s very low. Since you are good in IT why don’t you go for computer related courses. Well, I won’t come here to deceive you that Botany is a nice course, you should only continue if you’re well connected with people that matters who can fix you anywhere you want after school.

IyaebeTheGreat:
Can you cope in medicine with that Gp? It’s very low. Since you are good in IT why don’t you go for computer related courses. Well, I won’t come here to deceive you that Botany is a nice course, you should only continue if you’re well connected with people that matters who can fix you anywhere you want after school.

hmm... So may thoughts on my mind also I would have been in 300lvl by the time am rewriting jamb to apply for medicine and age isn't on my side any thoughts for me or I should finish the course and go for certificate programs in computer science

Septagon:
Beta focus on i.t and leave botany.its a waste of time unless u have connections after sch for good jobs

I don't really have connections can I apply Masters in Computer science if I grad?

Just do what makes you happy

themainman600:
hmm... So may thoughts on my mind also I would have been in 300lvl by the time am rewriting jamb to apply for medicine and age isn't on my side any thoughts for me or I should finish the course and go for certificate programs in computer science

How old are you?

Eazzii:
How old are you?

am 21

themainman600:
am 21

I graduated last month but I'll be writing JAMB next month.
The key thing is happiness.
Chase your happiness man.

Rewrite jamb. Go for it. If it's meant to be, you will get admitted. And since you'll be repeating the foundation courses again, your CGPA will definitely be better this time around. Unless you're not a serious person.
I had same experience, I was studying zoology and I had even paid the fees but I just had to write jamb again and i got what I wanted. Best of luck.

Eazzii:

I graduated last month but I'll be writing JAMB next month.
The key thing is happiness.
Chase your happiness man.

Chase your happiness on whose budget?


OP, I want to believe you're the one paying your academic bills. Right?

I just laugh when people condemn courses like this. If you really want to travel the world, that's another gateway, the scholarships available for people who read related courses in the USA alone and other parts of the world are so enormous! I read similar course and I remember someone telling me I'm reading a useless course and today It has been a gateway to Asia, USA and UK. Make sure you graduate with a very high cgpa that's if you fancy academia and or research, you could then transition to doing your msc or PhD abroad full funding (there are tons of such for this course). Meanwhile, the medical science people are rushing to is highly competitive even to land scholarship, most funding bodies would not even fund it because its quite expensive to see a medical student through.

themainman600:
am 21

age is on ur side Man.

blaquebelle:
Rewrite jamb. Go for it. If it's meant to be, you will get admitted. And since you'll be repeating the foundation courses again, your CGPA will definitely be better this time around. Unless you're not a serious person.
I had same experience, I was studying zoology and I had even paid the fees but I just had to write jamb again and i got what I wanted. Best of luck.

so where are you now?

Zonefree:

Chase your happiness on whose budget?


OP, I want to believe you're the one paying your academic bills. Right?

You dey mind them... For this bad Nigerian economy and incessant strikes, coupled with no job You're telling someone in university to rewrite jamb and pursue the so-called happiness.

Goldmaxx:
You dey mind them... For this bad Nigerian economy and incessant strikes, coupled with no job You're telling someone in university to rewrite jamb and pursue the so-called happiness.

Any advise on certificates I could get for computer related course boss cause I don't wanna suffer coming from a struggling family is hard I wanna plan ahead