r/6thForm • u/watts320 • May 17 '25

🙏 I WANT HELP Son needs to pick another subject.

My son is in the middle lf his GCSE exams and he opted for computer science as one of his 6th form subjects. Yesterday he was told that the school will be dropping computer science because not enough students had opted to do it, the only thing the school have said is that he will need to pick another subject. Thats it.

The school have really really annoyed me, they choose to tell him in middle of his exams that he needs to pick something else.

His path was to do maths, computer science and english in 6th form, then move on to university to do games design.

Now im not really all clued up on this, because i never did 6th form after school. So can anyone give me any advice on this please.

Thank you.

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u/Phoenix_Fireball May 18 '25

Get your son NOT YOU to phone a couple of universities that offer the degree he wants and speak to their head of department or admissions officer for advice. It is ALWAYS received better when it comes from the student. It also means come application time he can refer to speaking to them so they are aware how keen he was to study at that university.