Too Many Subjects

There's no one at my school doing 5 subjects that are a mixture of Highers and Advanced Highers this year. Is Glasgow's only additional requirement for you the B in an Advanced Higher? If so, I really don't see why you would want to have so much work put upon yourself, especially considering the fact that you already have 5 As at Higher (congratulations by the way ). If I were you I would personally fight to drop history, however the decision is entirely your own to make of course.

The requirement for my course is 5 As at higher and a B at advanced higher. Glasgow is my top choice and it’s the ‘hardest’ to get into in terms of grades. My school make such a fuss about things so I don’t know if it would be more effort than necessary to drop it.

The requirement for my course is 5 As at higher and a B at advanced higher. Glasgow is my top choice and it’s the ‘hardest’ to get into in terms of grades. My school make such a fuss about things so I don’t know if it would be more effort than necessary to drop it.

Before Lockdown I chose Advanced English, Advanced Modern Studies, Higher French, and Higher History for my subjects. Additionally, I had RMPS but dropped it in June because I thought it would be too much work. My year head agreed and let me drop it.

Upon returning to school, I learned that I was 2 months behind for Modern Studies because my school told me adv. highers wouldn't start until August yet the school I was supposed to be doing it at started in May. And I was also told I would have to pick up Higher politics which is a requirement for adv. modern studies at the school i'm doing it at.

I spoke to my year head about dropping history (I'd rather do two advanced highers because Glasgow is currently asking for 1 adv. higher at a B and I want to be safe) but she wasn't too keen on that. I still feel like it's too much work. I don't know anyone in my year doing 5 subjects, and I already have 5 As at higher.

Should I push to drop history or just keep the 5 subjects?

I'd speak to your main school about speaking to your AH mods school about relaxing the higher politics requirement. It's not a prerequisite required by SQA (or anybody else) and while I could understand if they wanted it to be a pathway into AH mods, doing them concurrently doesn't really seem to offer much benefit. Presumably you have higher mods already?
I would definitely recommend dropping something - it's quite a high workload with 5 subjects including 2 AHs and with all the uncertainty of this year (& that you need to play catch up on the subjects you're doing at the other school) class time isn't as guaranteed as it usually is. You've got a fantastic set of S5 results, so while there's nothing wrong with going above the 'bare minimum' for this year, you might also want time to do other things and take the pressure off a