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Which A Levels to choose to study Philosophy at (RG) University?

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Goodbyealvin · 17/04/2016 12:45

Dd is in year 10 and we are starting to think about A Level choices and university. She's at an academic school so would hopefully be aiming for Russell Group, possibly Oxbridge (though not sure about that; we know that she can't do pure Philosophy at Oxford, Cambridge might not be her thing)
It also might be that she doesn't choose Philosophy, so we want to ensure that she doesn't rule out other subjects, probably either History or Classics.

In the mix for A Levels (she's allowed a maximum of 3, are:

History (strongly leaning towards this)
Latin
Greek
RS aka Philosophy and Ethics
Philosophy
English

To my mind she should do History, Latin and Greek, but would she be better choosing RS or Philosophy instead of one of those?

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Goodbyealvin · 26/04/2016 10:52

Thanks so much for all the responses, much food for thought.

Having had a closer look at the Sixth Form prospectus for her school, I've realised that what I read as "Philosophy" A Level is actually Psychology Blush (must pay more attention!) so actually Philsophy pure wouldn't be possible anyway. Philsophy and Ethics is, however.
We have a parents' evening coming up next month so we might get more of a steer from her teachers as to what they think would be good for her, but this is useful knowledge to bring with us.

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