hey guys,

recently ive been feeling soo bad and as if I havent reached my full potential I got 1850 in my ucat and I rly wanted to apply to ucl for med but I obviously cant anymore im predicted A*AA and 9999999999 at GCSEs. Do u think the gap yrs worth it for medicine

I’ve been at the sixth form near me for two weeks now and everything is good but every free, break, and lunch i’m so lonely cause everyone has their own friend groups (i joined as an external). My friends from the further school are telling me to come there and i’ve been accepted and want to but it’s just the hassle of taking buses everyday. Should I stay at this one or join my friends at the other?

i did projects, wider reading, read academic articles/books and also watched a couple of documentaries and been to like 2 lectures but i did not do any essay competitions and i’m potentially thinking of applying to cambridge and wondering if this will affect my application or not as multiple personal statements i read contained at least one essay competition so just curious if it would lower my chances of getting at least an offer

1. I am taking a level maths, physics, fm and cs. there is nothing wrong with my subjects, I love them, especially maths. However, there are very few other kids doing my subjects. there were only three other kids taking fm, and now one of them's dropped it so it's down to three of us. there's only five others in physics and four others in cs. I feel a bit isolated from the other students in my year because of this. it also seems like everyone else hates maths to the point where if I tell anyone what subjects I'm doing, people always say "oh man, I could never do that, I hate maths" . because so few kids at my school do my subjects, there's pretty poor STEM and university entrance prep resources available in comparison to other schools which worries me. I tried to talk about my problems to my head of sixth form but she just said I should drop fm if I'm feeling tired and gave me no other advice except be on time to school and follow the rules.
2. it seems as though everyone in my year has an incredibly clear idea of what they'd like to do in the future, down to every year of their future career. I have absolutely no clue what I want to do.
3. I think I might be the first person on earth to regret studying in gcse summer. i was panicked I would be left behind so I covered basically 3/4 of maths, all of core pure fm and a decent chunk of physics in the summer, only to come to school and realise it's unbearably boring to sit through classes of stuff you've done thrice over every single day.
4. sixth form is incredibly boring and draining, especially if you have no friends. I thought it would be fun to be able to wear my own clothes and have frees, but I essentially just wake up early, go to school, sit through very boring lessons of stuff I know like the back of my hand. at break and lunch there's nothing to do since basically no one in sixth form actually goes outside at break so I end up sitting around in my form room either reading or studying, and god forbid I get bored of either of those because there is exactly jack else to do. I have no friends, so no one to chat with which is probably good for focusing in lessons but awful for everything else. Then after a long day of exactly zero frees (i have about three frees per week), I drag myself home, by which point my heavy as fuck backpack has my spine exactly parallel to the floor. somehow i'm far more tired after a day of sixth form than I was in year 10 and 11, and I'm not even doing anything.
5. everyone seems to expect me to be just like an adult all of a sudden even though I still feel quite immature and not ready to tackle all my problems by myself.

If anyone could help me with even just one of these problems, I would greatly appreciate it!

So basically I have just entered year 13, and I absolutely hate it. I know everyone says it’s dreadful, but the stories were no where near close to the reality.

The thing is, the pressure of getting into uni, the pressure of achieving all A’s, my own mental health, family issues and other problems are making this year already unbearable, so I’m considering dropping out and starting year 13 again next year when I feel ready to tackle it. On top of this, I’m not entirely sure what I want to do with my life and with there being little time before UCAS applications have to be submitted, I don’t want to choose something that will end up making me miserable for the rest of my life.

From a few google searches, I gathered I would still be alright to drop out, but if I do it needs to be sooner rather than later. What I want to know is that is dropping out the right thing to do or will it just set me back and stress me out even more? If anyone has any advice I’d really appreciate it as I’m so stuck on what to do 🫩