A level choices - Philosophy, Biology & photography???

I don’t think Bath is Russell Group but it’s highly regarded. DS was told they didn’t care what his 3rd A level was as long as he got the right grades (for aeronautical engineering they said Maths, Physics & Dance was fine).

And if she wanted to do, say, Physio or Radiology, then single Biology is fine. Dd has a friend doing Physio at Southampton who took Textiles,.Rs and Biology.

V Bad choice IMO. Good uni will reject that immediately

Rubbish.

I was talking Russell Group/Oxbridge. Apologies.

So was I

Two solid academic subjects plus photography will be fine for most BA degrees at most RG universities.

Sorry, I'll back off here, 'photography and good uni' to me, do not go hand in hand at all.

I entirely misjudged OP.

I was talking Russell Group/Oxbridge. Apologies.

My dd did an odd combination of biology, geography and product design.

School said if she was interested in science she needed to take 2x sciences and if she wasn’t interested in science she shouldn’t take one. But she stuck to her guns as she said she wanted to take the subjects she liked best and was good at.

She got onto an architecture degree. She already knew she wanted to do architecture and that it didn’t matter what subjects her A levels were in.

So I guess as long as your dd knows that one science probably isn’t enough to go on to study science at degree level it doesn’t matter. If she’s unsure what she wants to do next (if she’s thinking of uni) get her to look at prospectuses to see if she likes the idea of something. Then she can check the course requirements.

Good uni will reject that immediately.

That would rather depend on the degree subject.

Photography?

V Bad choice IMO. Good uni will reject that immediately.

If she is contemplating biology for further study she will need a second science or maths. Photography is very time consuming and requires real passion, far from an easy option.

It's an odd combo alright!

Why Biology? If she's interested in a Biology degree she needs another Science - so swap Philosophy for Psychology maybe - or better still maths.

If she doesn't want to do Bio as a degree then I'd suggest she drops it as an A level.

If she's only doing a creative for enjoyment, rather than because she's considering a creative degree again I'd rethink - they tend to be very heavy time wise and the impact on grades of the other subjects shouldn't be ignored.

If you want to do Law at university don’t do Law A level! You also don’t need 5 A levels. Economics needs Maths A level to compliment it too. So slightly odd choices here for Law. History, English and MFLs is more than enough.

OP: these subjects are slightly random. If any of them, as an individual subject, is taken at university, what is the best subject to go with them? What degree might she do? These A levels would look better if Photography was replaced with English, History or Maths. Picking random A levels does make degree choices harder.

I myself chose English language law French economics and German. I wasn't sure what economics was until enrollment day, but I was told it worked well with law. It's good to do subjects which interlink, as knowledge learnt in one feeds into others, like French and English. I know I want to be a barrister so I fit my choices around that but pick what you enjoy- philosophy is very very hard apparently but photography sounds good my friend does it

If she doesn’t know what she wants to do, do what she is most interested in, it’s such as difficult time for them.

It’s also worth looking through a few uni prospectus to see if there’s anything that takes her fancy and if they have any prerequisites.

Dd switched from photography as the editing package they used was rubbish.