A Level Options - Help :3

Hey i'm thinking of college options & with a clear idea of what job i want - Finance > Banking > Investment Banking , I want to know what would be the best options for me.

I am picking 4 options,
Maths - This is definitely one of them.
Economics - Once again, a definite one.
Business - I'm 90% sure I want to go with this, but if i don't, will it matter I mean do I really need Business for where i'm going?

Fourth option - I don't know.
Psychology? I've always been fascinated by the human mind and would want to learn more but this wouldn't help with my future.

Government & Politics - Is there a point of me choosing this? I've considered it but I don't know.

Italian - Yesterday & today i've been thinking about a language. Italian is the only one I could go for in the college I'm heading. But i've never learnt another language properly before. We learnt German in the first few years in High school but I never chose it as an option because I didn't think it was worth it. Anyway i've heard you can go far with a language - Should i choose it? Will it be hard? I know no Italian so will start from the beginning (You don't need to have previous knowlege to choose Italian int the college im going) - I just don't know

Please help with my Business situation & my fourth option situation.

Thanks,

What kind of uni do you want to apply for? If you're looking at a Russell group then I would avoid business studies it's not really wanted by unis and I think Cambridge said something about wanting it to be scraped at alevel? I would also strongly discourage psychology as it I wouldn't particularly e desired by unis. A language would be good though however it would be alot of hard work, further maths along with maths would be a good idea also and then economics although I'm not quite sure what unis think about that.


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You'd be better off doing something like Psychology or Politics than a language A-level from scratch - it may make you appear as a more well-rounded student by doing an essay based subject. A language A-level is very challenging and time consuming even with prior knowledge through GCSE and the time you will have to dedicate to Italian could make your important Maths/Economics grades suffer. In the long run you would be a lot better off self-teaching as a hobby (an extra curricular you can mention in your personal statement!) as languages are beneficial. Definitely go for Business and, if Further Maths isn't available, do Psychology. Many students choose their fourth subject more for personal interest than for their future career .

I strongly disagree.

Economics and Business together isn't recommended at all due to overlap.

Mathematics
Further Mathematics
Economics
Italian/Politics is the best combination in my opinion...

Italian may be a challenge, but LSE/UCL like the contrast (one of them definitely do)

Wait I don't think I explained it correctly. You do mathematics the first year and as for the second year for college, you can stop out of mathematics or carry on and do further mathematics in the second year (other options in the second year apart from further maths are maths with statistics & maths with physics & maths with engineering I think) (so for the second year if I choose not to drop out I can carry on with maths and choose further maths or maths with statistics/physics/engineering)




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So you get another option?

Don't do business and economics, they're too similar. Universities don't like the combination.

Yes..