Entry Requirements to Uni - Entry Reqs question

I am 15 currently, and doing national 5 applications of maths, My idea was to try study finance and xyz (to be decided) at uni, but, Most say I need actual as a minimum Nat 5 maths in order to do this, I'm wondering if Higher Applications of maths is enough in order to get into.

Current Subject choices
DRAMA - N5
BUSINESS- N5
HISTORY - N5
ENGLISH - N5
MATHS - N5apps
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION N5

Reply 1

OnlySmartOneHere

This is something you'd probably be better off asking an actual university admissions team about as it could vary from uni to uni. If you have any specific universities in mind that you want to attend I'd email them and ask.

In my honest opinion though as a Higher Maths student who got As in both Nat5 Maths and Nat5 Apps of Maths and had friends in Higher Apps? I don't think so. The Higher Applications of Maths course varies quite a bit from both Nat5 and Higher Maths. There's a lot of skills you learn in Apps that you don't ever touch in Maths - such as the whole spreadsheet calculations. There is more overlap between Nat5 Apps and Nat5 Maths than there is between Higher Apps and Nat5 Maths in opinion. Regardless, if I were you I would still try and get Nat5 Maths.

Again, I'd say your best bet is contact a university and get their opinion on it though. Hope this helps.

Reply 2

stilllearning123

Original post by v1ak

I am 15 currently, and doing national 5 applications of maths, My idea was to try study finance and xyz (to be decided) at uni, but, Most say I need actual as a minimum Nat 5 maths in order to do this, I'm wondering if Higher Applications of maths is enough in order to get into.
Current Subject choices
DRAMA - N5
BUSINESS- N5
HISTORY - N5
ENGLISH - N5
MATHS - N5apps
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION N5

Simple answer, probably not.
As above, you should email each respective uni, but for a maths course, you will need maths.
If you are going to commit yourself to a life of maths in finance, why don't you do maths and actually see if it interests you or not, if you are good at it and you will enjoy doing it for the rest of your life. If not, then why would you do so?