A level Choices for DC who is unsure between Engineering or Economics at Uni

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Dear all,
Could I please seek A level choice advice for a DC who isn't too sure of what uni course to pursue later on between sciences or Economics ?
DC is put off by Economics A level (edexcel) as it is an essay-based subject.
So preliminary choices are physics/maths/chemistry and one MFL (has to start with 4)
However, we have been told that not choosing Economics may play against us if finally applying for Economics at uni, as it is available at our sixth form.
Our plan (if not taking A level economics) was to go for Economics EPQ and clubs/project to demonstrate interest should the uni Economics' path was ultimately chosen rather than take now half-heartedly a A level in case ...

I think the question applies to other subjects ie not choosing a certain A level but ultimately wanting to do it at Uni, in our case the trade off is with a so-called facilitating subject.

thanks !

I did maths, physics, chemistry and economics. And yes the latter was all essay based but I would say the easiest by far. I'm guessing if you don't want the economics essays at A level you wouldn't want to do them at degree level either?
I would do economics a level rather than the language and if you don't enjoy it drop it. If you don't try it how will you know whether to do the degree?
I did an Engineering degree.

Maths is the required A level for Economics but I too fail to understand why he would suddenly not mind writing essays at degree level if he doesn't want to do it at the simpler level of A level. However maths, physics and chemistry are good choices to leave all sorts of engineering open.

Is he mathy enough to do FM (and do well in it)? If so, that might stand in good stead for one of the more quant heavy econ courses.

A lot of the Russell Group uni's don't require Economics for A Level, maths and further maths are much more important.
My DS could not choose between Civil Engineering and Economics, so he decided to keep his options open and studied Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Geography. He soon realised after the first 6 weeks that Physics was so much harder at Alevel even though he had got an A in his GCSE's so dropped that.
He could have still studied Civil Engineering without Physics as his other subjects were still good enough.
In the end after visiting a few uni's and sitting in on some lectures he settled for Economics. He is now in his first year at uni studying Economics and one subject that has really helped him is Maths and Further Maths. The ones that didn't take Maths are really struggling

My DS is also considering the same subjects at uni, he’s only in year 10, but to me they are not complementary - I did maths, FM, biology and chemistry at a level and did Optometry (so physics/biology most useful. DH did History, economics and business studies for A level and started off doing Economics and business, but couldn’t do the maths, so changed to history and business.

To me engineering is the mathsy subject and economics more arty (but it sounds as if I’m wrong).

Is there anything else you’re doing to help your kids decide? We did a course with smallpeice which Thomas really enjoyed and to me, I’d always choose a vocational course. But, DH earns a significant amount more than I have ever done.,,

Economics is maths heavy. Definitely not an art.

Civil Engineers are always in demand. However there are many engineering grads who don’t stay in engineering. They are in demand for their skills in financial jobs. So well paid whatever they choose to do after graduating.

For civil engineering, maths and physics are the best two A levels. No reason why economics cannot be the third but I think geography is more useful in today’s climate.

My immediate thought was maths, economics, physics.