Advice regarding A Level Situation

I've just received information back from my school regarding A-Level options and I'm quite disappointed. I applied to do Spanish, German, Maths and Further maths, and my school have now told me that I cannot do Spanish due to a timetabling clash and must change it. The options of relevance in the block freed by the impossibility of Spanish are English Literature and Physics. Lit is relevant as I would like to do Linguistics (potentially with modern languages) at university, aiming for very top universities so it could possibly help with that. Physics is relevant as I'm good at it, but not really important to the degree(s) I want to do. English Lit is also really not an ideal option because I don't particularly enjoy it, and taking it as an A-Level would be rather daunting. It's also not super relevant, only somewhat.
Note that there are no other schools in my area offering such a combination of subjects.
It's very frustrating as the subjects I applied to do are by far my best ones and I'm consistently getting close to or exactly 100% on past papers w/o revision. I also got a scholarship to my school in the language subjects.
I have talked to my parents and they have said that they're happy to facilitate me doing a Spanish A-Level outside of school, and while this is a solution, I don't want to jump straight into it as it would certainly be a large commitment.
Any advice on what to do?
TL;DR I can't do my options (Spanish, German, Maths+FM, specifically can't do spanish) and need help on what to do going forwards.

(edited 9 months ago)

Reply 1

Coeoe

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Hmm I would personally go for doing Spanish outside of school as that means you can still do what you originally set out to do.

However, if you're good at physics that wouldn't be too bad. Then again, if you want to do a linguistics course, having maths, FM and physics would be cool, but a little eccentric maybe. If you don't think you can do well in English lit, I would probably avoid it.

If I were you, I'd take 3 a levels in school if possible and do Spanish outside. However I'm not from the UK so take my opinion with a grain of salt. Doing subjects outside of school is a common thing here.

Reply 2

username6111128

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i know this doesn’t appear to be one of your options that you’ve said, could you switch to english language? i do lang and have applied to linguistics, it relates a lot imo. also, does it have to be spanish that you can’t do? what does it clash with? as if it was that you can’t do spanish and further maths or something, i would argue to just drop FM

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qaztcx

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Original post by funny-liquid

i know this doesn’t appear to be one of your options that you’ve said, could you switch to english language? i do lang and have applied to linguistics, it relates a lot imo. also, does it have to be spanish that you can’t do? what does it clash with? as if it was that you can’t do spanish and further maths or something, i would argue to just drop FM

sadly my school doesn't offer english language, and i think at least with Spanish it'd be possible to get some kind of support from teachers, whereas for lang there wouldnt be any help
it's spanish and german that clash and there's only one class of each so it has to be one of those two that go

Reply 4

username6111128

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Original post by qaztcx

sadly my school doesn't offer english language, and i think at least with Spanish it'd be possible to get some kind of support from teachers, whereas for lang there wouldnt be any help
it's spanish and german that clash and there's only one class of each so it has to be one of those two that go

if you were to drop german instead of spanish, would that open up any other options for you? it’s a shame that they don’t offer lang, it’s definitely more related as a subject than lit. physics probably goes slightly better with maths and fm, but i would really choose what you’ll enjoy the most. i have offers for 4 (currently) top unis for linguistics taking subjects that i chose simply based on what i felt like i would enjoy, so it doesn’t hugely matter

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