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Are these A levels good enough for Law

So I've chosen: English Literature
Geography
Sociology
Politics
I know some of you are going to say that I should swap one of these subjects for the typical history or French however I did not take history GCSE and after careful consideration I cannot see myself enjoying French so I chose geography as I needed one extra facilitating subject.

When the time comes I hope to apply to top unis e.g. Warwick, LSE, Cambridge and Imperial so can someone be brutally honest and tell me if my a levels are good enough to do law there because if not I will just take history instead of geography.

Thanks :smile:

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Reply 1

Charles Dupiau

History is probably a must

Reply 2

MeYou2Night

As long as you get A*s and As for those unis don't see why not, but history would be better than geography.

Reply 3

techcloud14

Imperial don't do law.

Reply 4

eddie442

Swap Sociology for something more traditional, perhaps History or English Literature, and you're golden.

Reply 5

Dann.It

Original post by eddie442

Swap Sociology for something more traditional, perhaps History or English Literature, and you're golden.

If you look carefully you'd see that OP has chosen English Literature.

And tbh your options are okay. Although i'd say try swapping sociology with History.

Reply 6

ett11

I would like to apply for Law as well! I take History, English and a language. As far as I know, there are no specific entry requirements for Law. It's just that top-ranking universities tend to like "facilitating" subjects and some even have "blacklists".

Cambridge classes Sociology and Government and Politics as "of limited suitability". However, they are both on LSE's "generally preferred". Russell group universities like it if you have two "facilitating" subjects, though they say that three isn't really necessary.

As far as I know, if you continue English, Geography and one of your other subjects to year 13 (so that you have two facilitating subjects and one non-traditional subject), you will be absolutely fine. A strong grade in Geography is more useful for Law than a lower grade in History. In your place, I would take Geography over History, if Geography is your favourite. (I nearly did choose to do Geography and History, but kept to just History because it was my favourite of the two). Just make sure that you really like your A Level subjects, because that really helps! You don't want to suffer through a subject for the sake of it. Personally, I think your choices are looking pretty good. :smile:

Ultimately, though, ignore advice that feels uncomfortable and pick subjects that you love! (It is still nice and safe to have two facilitating subjects, just make sure you like them).

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Sandtrooper

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Original post by LunaTy

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I'd replace Sociology with another subject, even something like Maths or a Science. There's no problem with doing Geography.

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Reply 8

eddie442

Original post by Dann.It

If you look carefully you'd see that OP has chosen English Literature.

And tbh your options are okay. Although i'd say try swapping sociology with History.

Serves me right for not looking carefully, I guess. Seeing as they have two traditional subjects, having sociology and politics should be fine, provided she carries on both of the the traditional ones to A2.

Reply 9

Pinkberry_y

Probably good to have maths as well

Reply 10

LunaTy

Original post by Dann.It

If you look carefully you'd see that OP has chosen English Literature.

And tbh your options are okay. Although i'd say try swapping sociology with History.

If I was to carry on English literature geography and Sociology to A2 would you still recommend I do history?

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Reply 11

LunaTy

Bump

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Reply 12

good-vibes

At AS I did Geography, Sociology, RS and Psychology, and then dropped Geography at A2. I got all 5 offers including Durham, LSE and Manchester- grades and personal statement matter more than subjects.

Reply 13

gabrielladelaney

I have found that with Law they are generally not as fussed as you may think about the subjects you take. I took Maths, Chemistry, Physics and Law A-levels and got accepted from everywhere I applied, including places like Durham and Nottingham, which are pretty good uni's.

I was told that as long as you take one essay based subject, they mostly care about the grades you get not the subjects themselves. The only uni I found that stated a specific A-level for Law was Oxford who asked for English :-)
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