ib math ai or aa

Hello,
Hope you are well.

For context, I have completed year 12 IBDP and for mental health reasons am switching to A-levels in September, starting from year 12 again. I just wanted to say this so that you know I can't talk for year 13's or even others who are studying the IBDP in year 12, as their experience is different.

Now, Maths: Applications & Interpretations is what I took standard level at the beginning of the year, but I originally wanted to do computer science and needed it higher level, so after the first 2 weeks to which I was doing good in sl the school agreed to move me to hl (my grade from GCSE was 6, I needed 8 for the hl course at the school hence why i was in sl class at first) and also was suffering hl english lit, so they agreed to swap the two. Now AI maths is more real world than AA maths, which basically studies what we do plus extra theory. Aside from this this, we have studied finance topics like loans & annuities whereas AA hasn't as they were doing something more theoretical but i think that is the only time they haven't studied what we did.

Either way, neither are easy. My friend switched from AA hl to AI hl as they couldn't grasp the theory, and another switched from AI to AA as they couldn't do the amount of graphs we had. (Our teacher used graphs to display everything, which was her weakness). I would say do AI hl as the only university I know not to accept it for one specific course was Cambridge, however it is up to you to decide. Trial one out and swap it if you want later on.

Let me know if you have any questions and hope this helps