Advantages of doing 4 A levels instead of 3?

Let's say I did 4 a levels and got an offer of AAA; if I ended up getting AAAB, would the university disregard the B and let me in with the initial 3A's?

I suppose this is the advantage of doing 4 a-levels over 3? But I would like to decrease my workload as well....

A university is hardly going to reject you if you got 3 As and a B.

Advantages, I'd say, were that you're pretty much guaranteed more points. A sloppy person would say you don't have to work as hard to get similar points, 4 Ds is the equivalent of 3 Cs for example. But with this, I'd say you're more likely to overstress yourself on the four subjects, so it's better to do 3 and have less stress.

Yeah but I want to apply to unis where they don't give point offers, only grade offers. So if I got AAAB and my offer was AAA, would I get in?

Id say your better off dropping the AS you get the worst result in or enjoy least. i may be wrong but i wouldn't say your at a disadvantage unless applying to oxbridge of LSE.
out of interest what subjects you do?
i do 3 A2's and with history as an option get soo much work lol i couldn't do another A2 tbh if i wanted a life.
Down to opinions at the end of the day, speak to your head of 6th form see what he sais.

I did all 4 of my subjects to A2 though, did maths, further maths, french and chemistry. I know the workload is a bit higher but I wouldn't be at uni if I had dropped one. I would have dropped chemistry because it was the hardest but in the end I got a B in french (AAA in the others) and my offer was AAA so I would have missed my offer. At the end of the day I would rather have worked harder for year 13 than to not be at uni and either take a gap year or a different path through life.

Business (Cambridge Pre-U), Economics, Chemistry & RS. I think I will end up getting a B in one of them at least...

The thing is doing 4 A2's is much harder than doing 3 A2's, massive workload.

Drop business.
There's no point having business and economics. Business is economics lite; even if you didn't have economics it wouldn't be ideal.

It's my favourite subject and it's Cambridge Pre U which is a rigorous qualification offered by Cambridge uni as an alternative to a standard A level.

And I doubt that it will matter because I'm doing Chemistry as well which is a mint A-level. Looking to apply for Warwick/Bath next year...

Business (Cambridge Pre-U), Economics, Chemistry & RS. I think I will end up getting a B in one of them at least...

The thing is doing 4 A2's is much harder than doing 3 A2's, massive workload.

i do business and Economics along with history, the workload is not a problem for buss or econ.

I have a mate who applied at Cambridge for economics he does 5 A2's including his native language Mandarin Chinese predicted all A's and A*'s, he was rejected because he had a B at AS economics less than 70% and not sufficient GCSE's.

Id say drop RE and focus on getting 3A's.

a university is hardly going to reject you if you got 3 as and a b.

Advantages, i'd say, were that you're pretty much guaranteed more points. A sloppy person would say you don't have to work as hard to get similar points, 4 ds is the equivalent of 3 cs for example. But with this, i'd say you're more likely to overstress yourself on the four subjects, so it's better to do 3 and have less stress.

Yeah RE isn't the greatest subject so I might drop that. Thanks for the advice, I'd need to concentrate on getting all 3A's though so that's why I might drop one.