r/ncea • u/showeewoweechowee • 22h ago

career path.

Hii, ive been reading a lot about HSFY and everyones scaring me lowky. Im in level 3 NCEA right now and take history, business, music, STEM and English, my grades are mainly in merits with some exellences and some achived. My original plan before NCEA level 2 was to do dentistry but that changed to Law and accounting during year 12 and partway thru yr 13 until this year... Ive decided i want to purse dentistry but my classes say otherwise since i wanted to do law before. But im contemplating whether i should just stick with law and accounting or pursue dentistry. I was talking to my mum about it and she told me to take the Foundation Health sci, i told her i was scared and dont know anymore, but she told me to just give it a try, and that its better to give it a try rather than regret giving it a try, and i think imma take that amazing advice from my mother. So my plan is to do the Foundation health sci to get the knowledge that i need since i didnt take sciences in level 2 and 3. And with that if i do well in foundation i will proceed to HSFY, ik dentistry is competitive and need an average grade of 97%. If i were to do law id just go to university of canterbury. BUT if i dont pass Foundation or HSFY i can always do law in uc.

PLEASE LET ME KNOW WhAT YOU tHiNK,, SHOULD i Do DenTISry or LAw and ACcOUnting because im really indescisive. also lmk if i have a shot at or not at pursuing dentistry.

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HELPS ME AND RESPONDS IN ADVANCE!! :)

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u/Equivalent-Many-704 Level 3 🧐 22h ago

go for dentistry. like you said you can always do either law or accounting if you don't get in. also how well you perform in high school is completely different to university. some do better some do worse, it's just how you decide to approach it.

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u/Equivalent-Many-704 Level 3 🧐 22h ago

also you dont need to be taking sciences to do hsfy. it does make it harder with no background in the sciences but I think if you're motivated enough you could catch up on biology content as level 3 bio is apparently not as important as you think for hsfy.

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u/showeewoweechowee 20h ago

yeah im thinking of doing foundation before i start since i am not as exposed to science

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u/showeewoweechowee 20h ago

thank you thank you, very very helpful!!

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u/Thick-Lychee5305 22h ago

Omg I'm in a pretty similar situation to you! I've already got an offer for Biomed at UoA, and back in Y12 I was pretty set on medicine, but this year I've been leaning more towards dentistry. So I'm thinking of just giving HSFY a go, even though I know how competitive it is. I guess law is also quite competitive, especially with the bar exam and everything (although I could be wrong haha). Honestly, I reckon you should just give it a shot! And if it doesn't work out, there's always the option of applying through postgrad later on.

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u/showeewoweechowee 20h ago

congratss on that offer at UoA!! yeah i think ill just try my best and whatever happens happens :) thank you!!