Have I made it impossible to get into top unis with my a level choices?

So when I went to enrol I chose to do a level maths ,music,economics and accounting because I’m interested in those subjects. I was told further maths is desirable to do economics at a top university but I wanted to do subjects I was more interested in. And now I’ve discovered that accounting is considered a soft subject and music doesn’t count as a “traditional “ subject even though it is very hard to do well in.

But mostly I don’t want my a level choices to stop me even having a chance at doing economics at top unis so I was wondering if my choices are an issue?

only a couple of universities require further maths outside Maths degrees and I dont know of anywhere that requires it for Accountancy although it would be worth you checking te universities entry requirements. Maths and Economics are preferred subjects as far I know everywhere and universities only require 2 preferred subjects. I dont see you will have any issues .

Having checked lse will require as Further Maths

Oh I thought further maths wasn’t a hard requirement I was at least hoping for a shot at lse(I have checked ).
Thanks though good that I only need 2 preferred subjects.

LSE have a list of their preferred subject google that but it certainly looks like you will need as further maths to be considered. If everyone else has it and you dont why whould they choose you. Everyone there will have outstanding grades.

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First of all thank you that’s incredibly helpful .

I guess finding out all this information means I have a choice to make -change an a level to further maths or not. Accounting seems really interesting to me but with it being “not preferred” maybe I should change it to further maths . Then music is way less interesting but would provide a lot of resources for me to improve at piano that I otherwise couldn’t afford . And even changing a levels at all after enrolment makes me a bit of a pain in the arse but like I said I’d at least like a shot at lse/oxbridge and if I need to do further maths knowing my thoughts would you recommend I change music or accounting ?

First of all thank you that’s incredibly helpful .

I guess finding out all this information means I have a choice to make -change an a level to further maths or not. Accounting seems really interesting to me but with it being “not preferred” maybe I should change it to further maths . Then music is way less interesting but would provide a lot of resources for me to improve at piano that I otherwise couldn’t afford . And even changing a levels at all after enrolment makes me a bit of a pain in the arse but like I said I’d at least like a shot at lse/oxbridge and if I need to do further maths knowing my thoughts would you recommend I change music or accounting ?

I would drop accounting - it's very niche and few schools offer it.

I'm pretty shoocked you did not find out about FMaths before? Didn't your school tell you?

I knew it was available but my impression was -maths is hard enough , further maths is just for people who want to do engineering/computer science/maths degrees . And then at enrolment I got the impression Further maths helped for economics but wasn’t necessary. And now I’m suddenly realising that to be even considered for the best unis for economics I need further maths .
I emailed admissions anyway. Enrolment was 2 days ago and my gcses are fab so I hope I can change music to further maths .

I'd keep music and ditch accounting -