Does GCSE Latin help?

What are you wanting to study at uni?
If you're wanting to do Classics or Latin then yes, it would be beneficial. If you're wanting to do anything else (including Classical Civilisation or Classical Studies) then you really don't need Latin.

if anyone did take latin, did they find it to be helpful with spanish or the sciences in any way?

law, medicine, probably something math/science related.

if anyone did take latin, did they find it to be helpful with spanish or the sciences in any way?

If u were to do Law or a science related course at uni it would most definitely be advantageous.

I don't agree really.
When you study GCSE Latin, you're not learning scientific words for things, you're learning more along the lines of "Alexander fought well in the battle", or "The army killed many men", or "Augustus was a powerful leader".

i take latin at GCSE and im currently sitting GCSE exams. I take it along with German which has been quite helpful as there share pretty much the same grammatical rules and techniques , however im not really too sure whether this would be similar with Spanish , but i do presume it would be . At gcse level, i would say that Latin is not really much of an advantage in learning the scientific terms, because most of it in the GCSE specification is just simple english. If u were to do Law or a science related course at uni it would most definitely be advantageous.

what if i decided not to? would that disadvantage me at gcses or a levels? the problem with latin is that i honestly don’t enjoy it as a subject and don’t really want to take it for gcses.

no , it definitely wouldnt be a problem. dont take a subject you dont enjoy. may i ask, do you know what you're taking at a level?

law, medicine, probably something math/science related.

Not directly relevant to any of those then and won't be a factor in admissions. But if you enjoy it and are confident you can do well in it, no reason to not take it.

But don't take it just because you think it'll somehow make your application stronger, because it won't be a factor at all.

i think i could do well, but i don’t enjoy it, and don’t really want to spend so much time on something I don’t like or find useful and maybe lower my other grades

Pick something else in that case. Latin is not easy and if you don't actually have a genuine motivation for it you will likely struggle and also hate the experience.

Universities don't care what your GCSE subject choices are - what they care about at GCSE are a) grades in specific national curriculum subjects (normally maths/English language, but sometimes science etoo) and/or b) your overall grade profile. Whether you took X or Y subject at GCSE is immaterial.

i think i could do well, but i don’t enjoy it, and don’t really want to spend so much time on something I don’t like or find useful and maybe lower my other grades

I wouldn't do it then. Keep in mind that only half of Latin GCSE is language and the other is literature - which is just memorising translations and style points so if you don't like the language part I think you would more than hate the literature.

i do like literature in the sense of analysing english language and writing essays on it, but are they really the same thing?

you do have to write essays on the style and techniques of a poet/writer for latin literature, however personally i dont like english lit either so i found latin literature to be such a bore. for me latin literature is 30% of my grade, whereas the latin language is 50%( the other 20% is Roman civilisation, which i find quite interesting, even though i dislike history. overall it is quite a well rounded subject, but only take it if you enjoy it! I find latin language really easy however, as do most people at GCSE.