I recommend taking UQ, and resit the UMAT this year and try to get into a NSW med school. Even if you don't make it into a NSW school, unbonded is always better than bonded.
Offer: UNSW
UMAT: 84 percentile
Bonded/Unbonded: bonded
Special Considerations: EAS kid
Gonna call the med faculty tomorrow to see if I have a chance of being upgraded to unbonded in later rounds.
if u graduate in 5 years u are out in the workforce and earning enough to pay off your bond anyway
some would argue getting into the workforce earlier, especially in a career like medicine where the path to becoming a specialist (if u so choose) is so many additional years, is a pretty great incentive to take a 5 year degree
some would prefer to have the extra years in uni and not have to pay off a bond (keep in mind that while ur spending ur last 2 years in uni with this option people who took the 5 year degree are already out and earning), all im saying is it isn't *that* black and white as bonded always being better than unbonded regardless of the other factors of the courses (location, finances, length of degree, course content etc.)
