Is Ebacc an advantage

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Ds is choosing his options for gcse and school seem to think most people will do the Ebacc. He wants to do separate sciences and French but wouldn’t necessarily choose to do either history or geography.
He will probably do maths or computing at university so I am wondering whether top universities will prefer to see the Ebacc or whether he can just pick anything for his last gcse option?

No

I was looking into this last year. It’s something on which schools are measured, but not something that universities particularly care about unless those particular subjects are needed. If he has a good selection of academic GCSEs plus perhaps a bit of variety it should be fine. It’s not a bad thing - but not essential, and it all depends what he does instead.

schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-ditches-statement-suggesting-top-unis-support-ebacc-subjects/

It means virtually nothing and makes no difference later. Make sure to pick the options he really wants to do. Meanwhile keeping a humanity is a good choice but don't let the ebacc label sway you.

No it makes no difference whatsoever. And I speak as an MFL specialist. It’s not a thing, you don’t get any kind of qualification and I believe it’s even going to be phase out as a measure if schools; he should choose what he enjoys.

Neither of my DS did the Ebacc and both got five offers from RG unis.

Nope, makes no difference. I have a maths and computing DC as well and they dropped the MFL GCSE so they could take both Computer Science and DT. They’re doing Double Maths, Computer Science and Physics at A level. Hasn’t affected their Uni offers at all.

Nope. It’s for the schools benefit.