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Heriot-Watt wont let a Scottish student in with the OP's grades and the ABB requirements would be for the four year programme. If an English student wants to do the 3 year degree I think they need AAB/AAA.

I f I were the OP and was certain I wanted to be an actuary, I'd look at doing a foundation degree at an English University that has full exemptions. Since your degree at Glasgow will be 4 years anyway you wont be any worse off and if you do well you'll get 8 exemptions. I know Kent and Cass offer foundation routes for their Act Sci degree's so you could look into that.

If your dead set on an actuarial career, getting your exemptions will half the time it takes you to qualify. Well worth it. Oh, and don't let anyone tell you that an Act Sci degree is useless for anything else. Anything you can do with a Maths degree you can do with Act Sci.

At Kent we have 4 maths modules in 1st year and 2 in 2nd year before we specialise and the average grades in the maths modules are always a lot higher than the Act Sci ones. Take out of that what you will.

Good Luck. :smile:
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Definitely go for Maths or Economics if you cannot study Actuarial Science.

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1114685&page=23

Read this thread, it is effectively the Actuarial superthread.
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I was a student member at the IoA years ago, although I read Economics. I gave it up fairly quickly for unconnected reasons, but it was clear to me during that short time that doing it via Economics is definitely the hard way around.

If you're starting from scratch, I can't recommend strongly enough doing straight Maths (Stats).

In my time, only about two universities offered Actuarial Science, so I had no idea if it was a viable option or not.
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I was a student member at the IoA years ago, although I read Economics. I gave it up fairly quickly for unconnected reasons, but it was clear to me during that short time that doing it via Economics is definitely the hard way around.

If you're starting from scratch, I can't recommend strongly enough doing straight Maths (Stats).

In my time, only about two universities offered Actuarial Science, so I had no idea if it was a viable option or not.

Agreed. I wouldn't recommend doing Economics either, it's would be far more beneficial to do something where you can get a good grasp of Stats (and Maths of course).

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