Advice on A-level courses and careers and universities?

Question

I need to choice my a-level courses really soon, well I should have by now but I want to change them. I have chosen Russian, Law, English Lang and Lit and Psycology.

I don't want to do that anymore. I'm not sure what I want to study and what career I would like. I enjoy drama but realise that it is really hard to get into so can't rely on that and I really like media and fashion and magazines etc and Promotions but not sure how to go about doing it and don't want to study media as it doesn't look good for universities...

Basically, I'm stuck between

Communication and Culture... I'd really like to do it but has anyone ever done it and is it good for media and does it look good and academic?

Modern Europe History... I got an A in my gcse's so maybe..? Also, it might look good for Law which I may study?

Drama?

Governement and Politics?

I have to choose 3 subjects(Russian my 4th) and have no clue!! Also, if I was to study drama and go to study something academic in university, will I be looked down upon?

Answer 1

If you're taking four subjects, you can afford for one of them to be a non-academic subject like Drama.  It's only if you're only doing three that you probably want to rule it out.  But not saying that you definitely would want to go with this.

I think, if I were you, here's what I might choose:

- English Language & Literature

- Modern European History

- Choose between Drama and Government & Politics

- Russian

Then you've mainly got good academic subjects which will serve you well in a course like law, or indeed almost any course which requires a solid academic background.  You could even go in to teaching with a background in English or History.

If you do wish to do something like media, journalism or events in the future, English will stand you in good stead for this.  To be honest, the people I know who are successful in the media industry are people who are English graduates, not Media Studies graduates, albeit from top universities such as Oxford and Cambridge.  It's a competitive field to get into and success relies upon having a network of people who can get you in.  Go to a good university and you'll meet those people there regardless of what you study.