Unsure on what supercurriculars to do

I would really love to study at Oxbridge but I’m very stuck on the course I’d do. I do bio, chem and English lit and I can’t decide between an English degree or going to the biochemistry, biomedical sciences route. I enjoy the subjects equally. I’m in year 12 so I want to start doing some supercurriculars however, since I don’t know what uni course I’m going to do, I don’t whether is should find supercurriculars for both English and science or would this maybe be too difficult or too much on my application.

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dandelionmoth

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by Anonymous

I would really love to study at Oxbridge but I’m very stuck on the course I’d do. I do bio, chem and English lit and I can’t decide between an English degree or going to the biochemistry, biomedical sciences route. I enjoy the subjects equally. I’m in year 12 so I want to start doing some supercurriculars however, since I don’t know what uni course I’m going to do, I don’t whether is should find supercurriculars for both English and science or would this maybe be too difficult or too much on my application.

I think it's really good at this point to keep your options open as you've only just started the A level courses. I would recommend definitely doing some supercurriculars for both until you get to a point where you have decided what you want to do. Also for both English Literature and Biology reading outside the curriculum will help you immensely so even if you decide you want to do one over the other at uni doing some reading/watching lectures/essay competitions ect. in both will definitely benefit your A levels.

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Wired_1800

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by Anonymous

I would really love to study at Oxbridge but I’m very stuck on the course I’d do. I do bio, chem and English lit and I can’t decide between an English degree or going to the biochemistry, biomedical sciences route. I enjoy the subjects equally. I’m in year 12 so I want to start doing some supercurriculars however, since I don’t know what uni course I’m going to do, I don’t whether is should find supercurriculars for both English and science or would this maybe be too difficult or too much on my application.

Your interests are varied which is good but you should think critically about what you want to study with respect to the academic field.

Here is a video helping to choose a subject at Cambridge: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw04Kb0tHWo

https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/choosing-degree-course

Some courses that I would suggest are Geography, Bioengineering, Land Economy

You can find the list of courses here: https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/search

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Q.Grace

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by Anonymous

I would really love to study at Oxbridge but I’m very stuck on the course I’d do. I do bio, chem and English lit and I can’t decide between an English degree or going to the biochemistry, biomedical sciences route. I enjoy the subjects equally. I’m in year 12 so I want to start doing some supercurriculars however, since I don’t know what uni course I’m going to do, I don’t whether is should find supercurriculars for both English and science or would this maybe be too difficult or too much on my application.

Hi, I'm in Yr 13 & I do bio, chem, maths, english; so similar to ur combo. Honestly in yr12, i had the same dilemma - I did what most people are suggesting in this post, which is to just try enough of both to see which you prefer more. Try to do stuff that's uni style but A-Level skill. For example, I participated in a lot of essay comps for English literature, and for Biochem I did a number of olympiads - the British Brain Bee and UK Medical Diagnostics Olympiad, which I enjoyed way more than the English stuff: so I went with medicine, and not Eng Lit lol. I think that's a good plan!

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jasmineva3128

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Hi.

Whilst it may not help you decide which degree to apply to, it would be useful for either if you can do a couple of supercurriculars relating to both degrees.

For example, you could look into how medicine and science are portrayed in literature (and even compare how this has changed throughout time). Some more well-known works that could be a good starting point for this are Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.

I hope this helps, and if you have any more questions, feel free to ask me. 😊

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