Chemistry at Uni
***I'm Scottish, this is about Scottish qualifications
I want to study chemistry at uni, but I don't have any higher sciences other than chemistry and am about to go into S6. Some of my teachers have told me that not doing another science would be a mistake.
Due to how the timetable works, my only option would be to crash higher biology next year. I don't really want to do this as I think the workload on top of my other subjects (I'm doing advanced highers) will be too much.
I know obviously having another science would be helpful, but will not having any other sciences put me at a major disadvantage? Or is it fine??
I want to study chemistry at uni, but I don't have any higher sciences other than chemistry and am about to go into S6. Some of my teachers have told me that not doing another science would be a mistake.
Due to how the timetable works, my only option would be to crash higher biology next year. I don't really want to do this as I think the workload on top of my other subjects (I'm doing advanced highers) will be too much.
I know obviously having another science would be helpful, but will not having any other sciences put me at a major disadvantage? Or is it fine??
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by thisisbatcountry***I'm Scottish, this is about Scottish qualifications
I want to study chemistry at uni, but I don't have any higher sciences other than chemistry and am about to go into S6. Some of my teachers have told me that not doing another science would be a mistake.
Due to how the timetable works, my only option would be to crash higher biology next year. I don't really want to do this as I think the workload on top of my other subjects (I'm doing advanced highers) will be too much.
I know obviously having another science would be helpful, but will not having any other sciences put me at a major disadvantage? Or is it fine??
I want to study chemistry at uni, but I don't have any higher sciences other than chemistry and am about to go into S6. Some of my teachers have told me that not doing another science would be a mistake.
Due to how the timetable works, my only option would be to crash higher biology next year. I don't really want to do this as I think the workload on top of my other subjects (I'm doing advanced highers) will be too much.
I know obviously having another science would be helpful, but will not having any other sciences put me at a major disadvantage? Or is it fine??
I think it's down to the individual uni. See the following for example:
https://study.ed.ac.uk/programmes/undergraduate/21-chemistry#entry-requirements - Chemistry + Maths
https://www.gla.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/chemistry/ - Maths and Chemistry
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/chemistry/chemistry-bsc/#entry-requirements - Chemistry + one of: Biology (or Human Biology), Computing Science, Economics, Geography, Mathematics and Physics.
https://www.uws.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/undergraduate-course-search/chemistry/#!#entry-requirements - Chemistry only
https://www.strath.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/chemistrybsc/#entryrequirements - Chemistry and Maths
https://www.hw.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/chemistry-bsc#requirements - Chemistry + one of Maths or Physics or Engineering Science at B.
Yes the above are Scottish universities, mostly because they display their entry requirements for Scottish qualifications a lot more clearly than those from other unis (they do accept Scottish Highers, but they don't list them as well).
If I want to go by the above, I think you would fare a lot better with Chemistry + Maths. If it's Chemistry + Biology, you would still be able to get onto some degrees, but you won't have as wide of option if you did it with Maths.
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