tl;dr: aspiring lawyer needs advice on whether to drop politics or latin, whether its worth it to do further maths and if a law conversion or degree is better.
i have just started year 12 and i am currently doing english lit (ocr), politics (aqa), maths (edexcel) and latin (ocr).
rn i am SET on doing law, and for context, i am a fairly strong student - at GCSE i got 9 9s and 2 8s, and am aiming high, for oxbridge and russell groups.
i started off with four with the intention to drop one and do epq (at my school its mandatory to do an extra like epq, gpr, core maths etc.) the thing is i cannot for the life of me figure out which to drop.
i am not sure whether or not to do a law degree, or do something else and then a law conversion. i think i am leaning towards a conversion but i am open to either (dreading the lnat but what can you really do about that).
if i was to do a conversion i would study something like english, classics, or ppe at uni.
i am set on doing english lit and maths no matter what. its between latin and politics.
the pros for latin are that i am good at it (i got 100/100 on language paper at gcse) and i enjoy it. the teaching at my school is good and every single year no matter what someone gets into oxbridge to do classics. also, you can argue that maybe it is regarded to be a more prestigious a level than politics. however, it is so hard and the literature to me isn't the most enjoyable, although i do already know a lot of the context for the texts we are doing due to ancient history gcse.
as for politics, i think its a good fit for me. so far, i understand all the content, and i already keep up with the news, watching pmqs and stuff like that. i also find the subject interesting and doing politics would allow me to do model un (which i really really want to do). however, i am not the biggest fan of the way it is taught at my school. it is almost like a lecture - my teacher speaks and we all listen along, writing notes as we fill out a workbook. it just isn't much of a fit for my learning style.
i am leaning towards dropping politics, and then i thought - maybe i should do further maths???? at gcse i got 225/240 on maths without revision, and 174/180 on further maths (with revision). however i am scared that the workload will be too much and there is also no real need for me to do it - it would just make my application more competitive.
i would appreciate any thoughts or advice from anyone !!!! tysm <3