As someone pointed out elsewhere in this thread, people choose their A Levels at age 16. I had a vague idea that I wanted to study medicine at age 16. I ended

As someone pointed out elsewhere in this thread, people choose their A Levels at age 16. I had a vague idea that I wanted to study medicine at age 16. I ended up doing CS. 16 year olds tend to have very fuzzy ideas about what they want to do with their lives. Excluding them from entire fields of study based on poor A Level choices seems a bit harsh to me.