switching courses and uni

[angry2008]

anyone know from past experience how to switch uni course and uni's I failed my first year, should have been back this year but they want £1600 to resit exam... decided maybe its not for me... but don't know what to do now and what the likely hood is of another uni taking me on and on a completely different course?

[sumo19]

What A levels did you get?

I suggest you get a job for a year, get some experience behind you then try and re-apply next year if you still want to.

I don't know the chances of another Uni taking you on after you failed at it once....

[Eve]

Why you failed might help with suggestions too, lack of ability is quite different to lack of effort or extenuating circumstances such as illness.

If you had problems then why? Did you fail narrowly or widely?

What was your rationale behind going to uni, was it a requisite for a career path you want to follow or more of a something of a progression from college etc...

Did you enjoy the subject and the course?

A little more context would be useful, what you were doing, why you failed, what you wanted from uni, what you want to end up doing etc...

[Eve]

I also meant to say that I changed course.

Different circumstances in that I went to uni to do a triple language course but decided during the course of my first year that I wanted more of a challenge and to do something more directly career orientated so switched to law. I took a risk in the sense that I left something I was very used to and very good at for a complete unknown and dramatically different way of studying and subject.

Many years down the line I'm a qualified solicitor.

The strange thing is, I was due to go to a different uni (again for triple languages though a slightly different three) but ended up in hospital with pnuemonia over my A Levels and ended up at my 2nd choice after college gave me the wrong advice and screwed up my special circumstances application.

The uni I was meant to go to doesn't even do law so who knows where I'd be now for the sake of randomly falling ill!

So, just because things don't go quite the way you planned them, doesn't mean things won't turn out well in the end.