Dr. Alan Wall:

That does happen. We are aware that if veterinary studies was a person's first choice, then he or she takes his or her second choice. We see the same in medicine. People do biomedical courses and things like that when they do not get their first choice. That is common enough for students across the CAO. I cannot remember the statistics but a high percentage of people get their first three choices in the CAO, so at least they get the choices they want. The ones who are dedicated to doing a veterinary course are probably the ones going to Poland and elsewhere.