Normal number of A levels for UK med school

<p>Well yes, I’m doing CAPE. I was thinking about doing A levels because some universities don’t accept CAPE, and the ones that do are the ones that are already insanely hard to get into, and there medical schools, even harder… such as Oxbridge, Imperial, etc. So I was thinking of doing A levels since every university accepts them (goes without saying) and I was thinking maybe it would help my application as these qualifications are “easier to understand” or in other words, the schools are more used to it. I was hoping that it wouldn’t be that stressful since CAPE and A levels pretty much share the same syllabus but I don’t know. As for the SAT II’s, I was just also hoping to take these to help my application as well I guess, so that there wouldn’t be any doubt. I was thinking if the universities see my CAPE results, and don’t understand it or something of the sort, they can look at the SAT II results and be sure that this person does understand the work, and is adequately qualified. I don’t know if this makes sense to you :expressionless: What do you think I should do?</p>

<p>Oh and since CAPE and A levels are similar, it doesn’t make sense taking more than 3 CAPE subjects then? For example this is what a school said: “We require 6 Grade I double unit CAPE courses to include Biology and Chemistry” So 4 units would already be taken by Bio and chem, that means it wouldn’t make sense to do more than 1 more additional subject to cover the other 2 units? In other words, it would be unnecessary to do 4 or 5 subjects?</p>