Are there any advanced to sticking with 4 A levels?

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Title meant to say- are there any advantages, but can't work out how to change it.
DT's in year 12, just got their predicted grades for UCAS. Both are doing 4 A levels and have been predicted A stars across the board. A range of subjects. Neither are doing Further maths. They enjoy all 4 subjects and are interested in them. Neither have an obvious weaker subject. They can't decide to drop one (they are worried about dipping a grade if they stick with 4) or stick with all 4. Everything seems to say there are no advantages to sticking with 4. But just wondering if anyone has examples of when it has been a benefit or where it might help with onward steps? I was thinking it give some flex potentially if they don't do well in one exam to still meet their offer grades. But still feels like a lot of work for potentially little gain. Any thoughts welcomed.

Occasionally offers on four A levels are made. Cambridge does it sometimes: see my post above, and we have seen four AL offers quoted on this board. Imperial has been noteworthy for offering alternative offers of three A stars or two A stars and two As two at least some candidates doing four subjects.

There may be others.

It was me wanging on about maths, FM and physics alone being perfectly fine for Oxbridge admissions, on the basis that I know of dozens of Kings Maths alumni who got into Oxbridge with only those A Levels. Not relevant to the OP’s kids of course.

It’s hard for any of us to give definitive advice about ‘four versus three’ overall because none of us would want to make a confident sweeping statement and inadvertently overlook the one or two courses/unis for which our advice might be wrong! Someone earlier mentioned US unis, for instance, and for all I know it might be the case that for some of them, you have a better chance if you’re taking four. The best thing, as @poetryandwine says, is to ask the admissions teams.

i will pretty much die on the very specific hill of further maths being a full A level and acceptable as one of three, but that’s just my personal eye-twitch subject. (And even then, as I understand it, it’s not reliably true if you’re going for medicine…)

Thanks for the mention, @PacificState

I also tend to forget about the special circs around medicine, so thanks also for reminding us