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If you did English language, music and sociology A levels...

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Whatwouldnanado · 23/06/2021 22:05

What degree did you choose? Dd year 12 feeling pressure from school to start thinking about it. A/B student, regretting her choices but no idea what she wants to do. Sociology was her wild card, something different she'd never studied before. That's it really, just seeking ideas as she's asking me for input.

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Rummikub · 23/06/2021 22:08

Look on Ucas website. This might give her ideas. Also think beyond degree. What career ideas does she have?
What A levels would she choose now?

GiantToadstool · 23/06/2021 22:10

Occupational Therapy?

AmyDudley · 23/06/2021 22:11

My DD did Music, English and Biology for A level. She went on to do a Music degree at Sheffield.

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Lookatthat · 23/06/2021 22:12

Similar A Levels, business degree. Most degrees are surprisingly flexible around subjects they accept - agree with PP encourage them to think about the career they’re interested in. Sociology can be a good precursor to a psychology degree.

GreatBigBird · 23/06/2021 22:22

Music degree. Massive regret. Did well and it was fun, but it has been useful for what I ACTUALLY have wanted to do. I fell into it because I was a good musician.

Look beyond the degree. What does she want to be? If her a-levels are limiting her choice now, then now is a good time to act on that and do something before a more suitable degree.

Hen2018 · 23/06/2021 22:51

Vaguely similar A levels. I did archaeology.

MistySkiesAfterRain · 23/06/2021 23:19

Soc, Eng, French here. Did Sociology. Regret it, too similar to Soc A Level, maybe applied social science is more useful.

Other ideas - Business related, Applied Linguistics, Data Science and cyber security will prove very useful, Social Work, teaching, psychology.

Rummikub · 23/06/2021 23:27

Media
Journalism
Social work
Mental health / nursing
Law
Criminology
Business
Marketing

So many don’t specify subject reqs so it’s worth looking

Is she studying epq?

waltzingparrot · 24/06/2021 00:23

Music therapist

Ilikecheeseontoast · 24/06/2021 07:38

I did similar and ended up doing a Psychology degree and going into teaching.

ifigoup · 24/06/2021 07:53

Theology and Religious Studies
Journalism
Art History
Sociology

Thecomfortador · 24/06/2021 07:58

Non- traditional music degree, post-grad in Social work Also have done music psychology postgrad. Work in social care now.

A number of people from my music course have creative music and performance careers and are doing well (not Concert hall soloists or anything but more popular / media related stuff).

LittleRa · 24/06/2021 08:00

I did A-levels in English Lit, English Lang, Psychology and Sociology. And an AS level in French. I went on to do a degree in English Lit then a PGCE and I’m now a primary school teacher.

sar302 · 24/06/2021 08:05

Friend at uni did similar and did a degree in population sciences. Incredibly interesting

mumonthehill · 24/06/2021 08:14

English lit, sociology and history here and went on to a politics degree.

Crabwoman · 24/06/2021 08:18

Politics and economics. Worked in policy and governance based roles ever since.

M0rT · 24/06/2021 08:21

There are decision tree quesstionairres online to help with career choices.
I'd suggest she does that and work back.
If she never wants to sit in an office for example she might want to something different then if she is aiming for a corporate grad programme.
Best of luck to her, it's an exciting time.

couchparsnip · 24/06/2021 08:27

Similar A levels and did a Sociology/Economics degree. I enjoyed it but it didn't lead to anything career-wise.

I am now doing a surveying qualification with work. It didn't matter what A Levels I had but having any degree over 2.2 meant I could do a part time qualification and not the full degree.
What I'm saying is that a degree in a subject you like is worth doing if you have no career plan yet. It gives you a lot more options.

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