Hi 😊. I’ve been accepted to 3 sixth forms including my school’s sixth form and can’t decide where to go/which subjects to do. For context, I got all 9s in my mocks so all 3 sixth forms told me to start with 4 A levels. I’m going to do Maths, FM, and Physics. For my 4th I’ll either do Computer Science or Chemistry. My school is (according to an external careers advisor) the best in my area for A level maths and FM. For the last couple of years, I’ve had the idea that I want to do a CS degree but I’m not sure.
If I stay, I’ll do chemistry because my school has a very bad CS department (last year 2 people did CS A level, one got a D and the other an E). I know my chemistry teachers would be good, and I have so far found it to be easy so hopefully with hard work I could continue to do well. I don’t necessarily have a passion for chemistry, but I don’t find it boring. Considering this, will there be any point since it’s such a hard subject? How much more would the workload be than CS?
If I leave, I’ll probably do CS because looking at the grades they published, the other 2 Sixth Forms have good results in it. However, is there much point in doing CS if I’m not 100% sure I want to do it at uni, since it isn’t really required anywhere, and chemistry keeps more options open?
One more point: my school does maths and FM concurrently and does AS exams for all subjects. The other sixth forms do all of Maths in one year and all of FM in year 13. Does anyone have any experience on which is better? I really wouldn’t be looking to drop FM at the end of year 12.
Thanks for reading this since it was very long, and any help is much appreciated 😊.