Choosing A levels

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My daughter is starting 6th form in sept. Her current choices are biology psychology and media studies.
Can anyone advise as to whether these choices would exclude her from certain universities? My husband thinks media studies is soft option as it was back in our days 25 years ago (along with sociology). He’s particularly worried as she only has one traditional subject .
She doesn’t know what she wants to do at university but this is were her interests lie. Thanks

Try Which University OP. It tells you what students 'typically' do who study course at specific unis. For example, I juts looked up Lancaster for Marketing (as it has an excellent reputation for the subjects) and it says the typical students had psychology , business studies and English Lit A Levels, which seems about right.

I missed out an important thing I was going to say.

Even if her choices seem sub-optimal for any reason (any whatsoever, good bad or snobby), if she wants to stick with them after reasonable discussion of implications, then change tack and back her to the hilt.

Because happy teens doing subjects they like tend to do well (whatever 'well' means for that individual). And unhappy teen tpyears, doing subject/s they don't really want to, is a recipe for disaster, both academically and for wider well-being.

And of course the best choice does depend on what she's likely to do well in, which is a combination of aptitude and enthusiasm. A friend's DD made a choice of physics, maths, philosophy and photography... didn't take to physics at a level so that was dropped, and found the maths hard going too. Better a decent media studies grade than flunked maths or history if that's a likely outcome IYSWIM.

Absolutely agree with that errol.