As Law is Ia, Ib, II structure and SPS is I, IIa, IIb, and I've been admitted for Law, do you think it would be a possibility to transfer after parts Ia and Ib of Law to do parts IIa and IIb of SPS?
I've looked in the law prospectus and on the Cam website generally and they seem to be fairly happy about transfers & say it is a positive aspect of the tripos system, but the law prospectus says that it is usual to switch to Law from another subject, not the other way round, and that if the switch meant it added up to 4 years not all colleges would allow you to do it.
I've just been worrying slightly (ok, maybe more!) about restricting myself into one dept so early on, and not having a chance to study subjects that I really want to.
If I could be applying again, I would be looking to go to a liberal arts college in the US as that is the only sort of place where I could do the Politics/Philosophy degree with some Economics and advanced German, with a bit of French, History, Maths and English that I'd really like to do, before going on to do a graduate degree and specialise in one area. The closest thing over here seems to be PPE at Oxford.
However, since I can't do that now (I don't feel like dropping out and reapplying or trying to transfer! Plus I am sure I will love Cam/Downing), doing a combination of tripos sections seems like a good idea, and Law with SPS seems like the ideal combination within the possibilities of the Cam undergrad degrees. However, I really want the politics bit of SPS, and whilst if I was doing the whole degree I would be very happy doing the first year, if I transfer into it after 2 years of Law I would rather not have to do the first broader year, as Sociology and Anthropology, interesting though they are to me, aren't subjects that I *really really* want to study.
What do you think?