Cambridge university natural sciences

I've got all 9s at GCSE and I'm deciding my a levels. I really want to do natural science at Cambridge and I'm wondering whether it would be better for me to biology, chemistry and maths at level rather than my preferred subjects of chemistry, biology and geography. What is best?

I think maths is needed as I know someone who was given an offer that was an A* in maths as she didn't do further maths so strong maths skills are a priority.

Would doing further maths make me more likely to receive an offer?

I've got all 9s at GCSE and I'm deciding my a levels. I really want to do natural science at Cambridge and I'm wondering whether it would be better for me to biology, chemistry and maths at level rather than my preferred subjects of chemistry, biology and geography. What is best?

It's very uncommon for people not to have maths at least to A-level, and vanishingly uncommon for successful applicants to not have 3 STEM subjects as I understand it.

There is technically a route for those who don't have A-level Maths aiming to do all biological options but I believe even this assumes roughly AS level maths material (and if you don't have that they send you content to study in the summer before going up). I think that's also really more for people who didn't have A-level Maths available to them or who only realised too late they want to apply.

You would be much less competitive (perhaps even non-competitive) doing chemistry/biology/geography for natsci at Cambridge to my understanding. If that is your goal you should be aiming to do maths, since all sciences at degree level are necessarily mathematical to varying extents. The artificial divide between maths and the sciences in school is not how the sciences actually work in reality.

If you struggle with maths then equally there's probably an argument that you would struggle with the natsci course at Cambridge (and struggle to get competitive scores on any admissions tests and in interview).

I've got all 9s at GCSE and I'm deciding my a levels. I really want to do natural science at Cambridge and I'm wondering whether it would be better for me to biology, chemistry and maths at level rather than my preferred subjects of chemistry, biology and geography. What is best?