Dd wants to do a levels in geography, politics, English lit

[Worriedagainmum]

She has no real idea what she wants to do with these land it worries me she has no plan

Looks really good and far better to do something she enjoys and will therefore probably do better at.
Only thing is it will rule out quite a few (all?) science options, but if she had any interest in that direction then presumably she'd have chosen one.

Please ignore the pp who said humanities aren't serious (my paraphrasing). They are perfectly fine for employers.

What absolute bollocks

Depends what you want to do as a career. Bit dismissive (and wrong!) to say no employer will value a humanities degree.

She's got 2 years to assess this, talk to her school/college mentors.

Don't pile any more pressure on her.
She doesn't need to know about which university course she wants yet.
Just keep encouraging her with the choices she HAS made.

I suppose I just worry about the debt she will get into, how much do you have to earn before you start paying it back ?
we will support he as much as possible but we couldn’t afford to bank roll it

Let her follow her interests and passion.

She can get into uni to do arts, social subjects, law with those subjects. Some sciences with the geography.

Maybe she won;t even want to go to university.
It's not obligatory.

About 70% of graduate jobs are open to students of any discipline- studying what you love and taking lots of time to explore and experiment with uni courses and jobs - open days, talk to current students and graduates, work experience, internships, part time jobs, uni and school societies, sports, hobbies, demonstrate your problem solving skills, resilience, ability to work with people etc all way more important in the end.

My son is choosing A levels now. His school (well known private fwiw) encourages pupils to choose subjects they enjoy and are good at. He thinks he will do geography, a language and biology… strange mix, but if he wants to go on to university he’ll be fine. His older sibling is about to take politics, English and history…. Very similar to your DD. He’s had several offers for politics and history and is excited about the future. Ultimately wants to do law.

That's fine too. Starting her A levels will let her see more about that she enjoys when studying in more depth. She's got all her first year of 6th form to consider her university options.

Let her be. She's fine.

At £28k you pay £5 a month.

You are very ill-informed.

My 'humanities' degree enabled me a successful and rewarding career and 6-figure salary. The same is true for many of my uni contemporaries.

There are some who went onto careers like teaching and earn less.

She has said she wouldn’t mind being a primary school teacher, so if she got a degree in any of those subject she could then train for a further year and become a teacher

I think it’s fairly normal at that age not to have a plan or have a future career in mind. The mix of subjects your DD would like to do for A Levels sound like a good mix to me.

Half of my friends who went to university to study a subject that they planned to have a career in now have completely different careers to the subject they got degrees in.

Good luck to your DD and support her where needed!

Thanks guess that puts it in worse price alot
as realistically can see it ending up being 50k and £10 pound a month

Great choices. Surely she should be picking subjects that engage and interest her and then using the study of those to help her decide what she’s interested in focusing on for uni or a career? Few people know at 16. Unless someone has a crystal-clear job in mind at 16, eg doctor or archaeologist, it’s pointless choosing a job for the sake of it at 16 and then picking the subjects after that, particularly as students then feel that they have to stick to that path as they are already in it. That’s where people drop out of uni or end up in jobs that don’t suit their interests.

this all seems like such big choices
but they do have to come from her

Someone has drunk the STEM flavoured Kool Aid.

A good broad mix there.
Very few people need or have a plan at sixteen.
Her brain is still in adolescence phase and will be growing and developing over the next few years.
How she does in her A levels may inform what degree she chooses.
That takes time.
Take that pressure off her, and off yourself, too.
Neither of you need it.

I did humanities at A-level and Uni, I’m now in a STEM career. Unless she wants to do medicine or architecture those a levels are fine for most things.

I think you need to step back.
She’s chosen 3 interesting A levels. They’re not too close to each other, and not too wide (though I don’t think wide is an issue).
She doesn’t need to choose a university course now anyway.
I really don’t see why you have a problem with those A levels, or that she doesn’t yet have her life mapped out.

I did geography, english and economics- went on to take a degree and masters in planning…

it’s a rewarding career but I’d say to stay away from local govt planning and stick to private practice…local govt doesn’t like creativity or thinking for yourself.

'this all seems like such big choices
but they do have to come from her ...'

That's the point OP - and I think that's what's driving your post.

Whatching your child stepping up into the next phase of her life is scary.

These sound fine to me. Please remember you aren't the one doing them. My parents tried to dictate which A-Levels I did and I let them. Sixth form was a nightmare as a result as were my results because I had no real interest in two out of the three I did.

My dd1 is currently in Y10. She flits between STEM and the arts and I've no idea which way she'll go. So long as she's happy through it's all fine with me.

Lol at humanities degrees being a waste of time.

Not true. Highly regarded in my field (broadcasting / journalism).