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3 or 4 A levels for cambridge and imperial computer science?

Hello, I will be going into year 12 next week and I have selected maths, further maths, computer science and economics as my subjects. I plan on possibly dropping econ later on as I don't think universities would appreciate it much as it has nothing to do with computer science. So would doing maths, further maths and cs still be good for top unis or would my application be shadowed by those of students taking the same three plus physics?
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I'm not sure about Cambridge but at the Imperial open day it was said that you can have 3, but if you do, your other stuff particularly TMUA (or whichever admissions test gets used next year) need to be really good. So if you get average in your TMUA you might be at a disadvantage and 4 A level candidates will be preferred but otherwise you should be okay.
Original post by oceanb1ue
I'm not sure about Cambridge but at the Imperial open day it was said that you can have 3, but if you do, your other stuff particularly TMUA (or whichever admissions test gets used next year) need to be really good. So if you get average in your TMUA you might be at a disadvantage and 4 A level candidates will be preferred but otherwise you should be okay.

Alright, thank you very much.

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