Hope you don't mind me asking, is that backed up with evidence? Have you met a lot of people at UCL, LSE, Warwick, Durham, Cambridge w/o FM?(Original post by Bloxorus)
It may slightly disadvantage you but nothing to be very worried about. As I said, plenty of people get in to the top 5 without it at all, and many people will have just taken it to AS like what you're planning to do.
If I do AS FM next year, i will have 5ASs and 3A2s, i don't want to be disadvantages by this! Ahhh, regrets.
I guess my english AS will help with the essay writing aspect, maybe unis will like that?
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(Original post by EHZ17)
Hope you don't mind me asking, is that backed up with evidence? Have you met a lot of people at UCL, LSE, Warwick, Durham, Cambridge w/o FM?
If I do AS FM next year, i will have 5ASs and 3A2s, i don't want to be disadvantages by this! Ahhh, regrets.
I guess my english AS will help with the essay writing aspect, maybe unis will like that?
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I saw some statistics posted by Cambridge about FM, I can't find them now but it said that only around 30% of people who got an offer had A2 FM, around another 30% had AS FM only and the rest had neither. Don't quote me on those figures, that's coming purely from memory of what I saw a few months ago. -
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(Original post by EHZ17)
Hope you don't mind me asking, is that backed up with evidence? Have you met a lot of people at UCL, LSE, Warwick, Durham, Cambridge w/o FM?
If I do AS FM next year, i will have 5ASs and 3A2s, i don't want to be disadvantages by this! Ahhh, regrets.
I guess my english AS will help with the essay writing aspect, maybe unis will like that?
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I saw some statistics posted by Cambridge about FM, I can't find them now but it said that only around 30% of people who got an offer had A2 FM, around another 30% had AS FM only and the rest had neither. Don't quote me on those figures, that's coming purely from memory of what I saw a few months ago.(Original post by Dilzo999)
40% who didn't have FM? I remember seeing it and it was around 10%. -
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I'm surprised that there are more (in %) successful applicants with no FM at all than FM at AS.
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Interesting.I'm surprised that there are more (in %) successful applicants with no FM at all than FM at AS.
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Some schools don't offer it and I'm not sure if it includes other qualifications which don't have FM.
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(Original post by purplemind)
Oh, I wrongly assumed all schools offer it but I guess that's true.
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(Original post by EHZ17)
Hope you don't mind me asking, is that backed up with evidence? Have you met a lot of people at UCL, LSE, Warwick, Durham, Cambridge w/o FM?
If I do AS FM next year, i will have 5ASs and 3A2s, i don't want to be disadvantages by this! Ahhh, regrets.
I guess my english AS will help with the essay writing aspect, maybe unis will like that?
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(Original post by kiirankapoor)
I did AS chem, bio, econ and maths in year 12. This year i dropped bio and picked up AS FM. Not having A2 FM wont hinder you too much, i am saying this because i got an offer from Cambridge to study economics without A2 FM. However it does depend on your maths UMS
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(Original post by EHZ17)
Hope you don't mind me asking, is that backed up with evidence? Have you met a lot of people at UCL, LSE, Warwick, Durham, Cambridge w/o FM?
If I do AS FM next year, i will have 5ASs and 3A2s, i don't want to be disadvantages by this! Ahhh, regrets.
I guess my english AS will help with the essay writing aspect, maybe unis will like that?
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@OP If your UMS is poor you simply won't get an interview, FM or no FM, so focus on that instead of worrying over minor things.
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I've got offers from UCL and Warwick without FM and whilst a few at the UCL open day required to get an offer, did do FM, plenty did not. Granted Cambridge and LSE do have a strong preference for it but it's not necessarily the be all and end all for all the top unis.
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I am confident I can get near 100% for C1 as long as I check for stupid mistakes, C2 is a bit harder, just started it but I think I can do well. Would I need 95%+ or would 92%+ suffice? And is that in everything or just maths? -
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Is there something you did or achieve that deviates from the norm? E.g 5-6AS levels and 4A2s or did you just do really well in your 4ASs and 3A2s? Thanks!
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I sent mine on 15th November and I haven't heard anything back from them. Are you an international student? -
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I've got 4/5 and they are queen Mary, city, soas and Brunel. what about you? -
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(Original post by EHZ17)
Anybody get into a top 5 uni w/o FM? I'm only doing maths and may need to do AS FM in my A2 year, will that be okay?
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