A level Psychology?

I did A level psychology and then went to Cambridge to do law. I actually found it the hardest of my A levels and it certainly wasn't looked down on.

I had some friends who went to university to study psychology and they said the first year of their degree was just what we had covered at A level. It's not an easy option. I loved it and would have done it at uni if I hadn't done law.

If she is interested in and knows what it's about then go for it. I believe a lot of students don't know what it involves and don't enjoy it when they find out! Anecdotally it is often dropped or changed.

But if she wants to do it based on what is studied and how (rather than the idea of trying something new) there is nothing wrong with doing it at A level and universities will be fine with it. Better to get a good grade doing something you like.

Glad to hear she is taking German (my subject) - now that is a niche A level - only about 2500 students sat it in 2019! Great to hear that her school is still offering it :)

If she finds psychology so interesting, I would highly recommend doing Maths A-Level instead. This will be far more useful in case she wants to take up psychology at uni. Any social science at uni will be heavy on statistics and Maths A-Level is absolutely essential for this. Psychology is also a really hard A-Level to get top results in compared to Maths (check the stats for percentage of A's and so forth). I have a MSc in experimental psychology and the two A-Levels I would highly recommend are Maths and Biology, otherwise she might struggle at uni.

Depends what she wants to do at uni and whether she needs to have a different relevant subject to get in to the course.

Also there's no point of her doing something that looks good like chemistry or maths etc but her doing shit in it.

She may as well pick subjects she is interested in and do well in them.

I picked psychology, history, biology and chemistry. Loved chemistry but did the worst in it so dropped it at AS.

Ended up getting A* A B

IMO that looks a lot better than other subjects but getting mid range C grades.

My eldest did Psychology (and Politics and Geography) and got an offer from everywhere he applied (all RG if that matters) for a competitive / oversubscribed subject.

My youngest is also doing Psychology and I would expect the same.

They are at a selective school which only offers subjects which are well regarded.

Of course I’m sure someone will come along and say otherwise 😀

Psychology was the second most popular A level subject last year and I don't think it would hold her back whatever she wanted to study at university, especially in combination with two strong subjects like history and German.

It has the reputation of being an easy subject It's not. There's a lot of content to learn and you need decent maths (as of course you do with economics).

Disclaimer: my daughter studied it at university and is now training to teach it. She loves it!

Psychology is an extremely popular subject and nearly every 17yo I know is doing it at A level. It involves a lot of skills; scientific research, evaluating, understanding human behaviour. I can't see why it wouldn't be respected by universities tbh. At DS's 6th form college you need a grade 6 in Maths & English GCSE to be able to do it, so it's academic too.