My son decided quite early in Y12 that he’d gone down the wrong path with his A levels. He’s taking geography, maths, history and politics. He’s predicted A stars in all. He had 6 9s and 3 8s at GCSE from a comprehensive with pretty poor GCSE results.
He has just received an offer to read geography at Cambridge and we thought this might settle him down, but he’s still wishing he’d done physics and either chemistry and biology, and is thinking of trying to do these in a year and apply in September for natural sciences.
We’re not sure if any of this is feasible (2 a levels in a year, which is less than a year!) and also applying for natural sciences with very little time actually having been spent studying the two new A levels he would need. He’s pretty determined and focused but it all seems a tall order and a bit mad to us. Would really value any insights.
Despite doing history and politics, it’s the human geography side that he thinks he won’t enjoy and would rather be doing the earth sciences etc side of geography with maths and physics alongside. If starting again will essentially mean two years until he can go to university, I think he’ll realise he needs to take up the offer (grades notwithstanding). Thanks