Confussed potential medic

You need to consider your uni choices. I wanted to apply to Cambridge and found they didn't require Bio, neither did southampton, Manchester, sheffield, London unis ... in short, a lot of good institutions don't ask for biology. Why? 6th form biology isn't relevant. It will hardly help. You learn too much plant stuff, almost nothing is relevant from A-Level after a few weeks of uni, and it's hardly hard to keep up with. So physics or biology: whichever you think you'll enjoy more and do better at, really.

That being said, I am the only one in my Cambridge college to have no biology, and I only know of a few. But I think that's more due to the fact that many medics think biology is necessary and take it, rather than the unis choose more people with biology.

I agree. It's down to what you prefer doing; however, HL Biology has option topics regarding further human physiology and neuroscience which I suppose will be interesting to any potential medic. The focus on plants in IB isn't that strong.

It's very true. Unfortunately, few students get to choose their options-the teacher will probably force them into something they have taught before or something considered easy, and the medicine-related options aren't considered so.