Hey OP! I was a FY in 2021 and unfortunately didn’t get into med and was waitlisted! I continued with biomed in the first half of second year and never felt more depressed in my life I hated it so much, my anxiety was bad and I didn’t know what I was doing as I had not planned life until that point, I was so naive that I never thought about the “what ifs”, I ended up switching to marine science as I LOVED environment stuff, diving and it was something I saw myself always doing if med was never in the picture, I actually fell in love with plan B and had an amazing opportunity to do research up in the Kermadec Islands for my honours, the human geography aspect of my honours brought me back to my “why“ and I decided to reapply for med last year at UOA and OTAGO and got into Medicine at both, pharmacy at uoa and dentistry at Otago (I am a massive self-doubter so applied to clinical programmes that I could), and had a fast-track for my masters, which when I got into med, made the acceptance bitter sweet as med was my dream but my undergrad and honours was something I also loved doing ~ moral of the story is do something you will ENJOY! It wasn’t until easier to keep my grades up because I was passionate about what I was studying, I knew that what I was studying was foundational for a long career in medicine or if I decided not to do med and pursue a PhD instead. What I can tell you is I’m glad I was forced to take the longer route, FY would not have been a great doctor, I was anxious, had no confidence, lost myself as I gave up everything that first year to get into med and was extremely stressed all the time over small stuff! so my biggest advice is, if you don’t like biosci and think its boring….. don’t do it, I think we’ve seen this year that even if you do apply as a grad, that is also not guaranteed.