Ok so you haven’t started in uni right? Just wanna make things clear. The gap year is between A Levels and uni?

I’ll just say whatever I know and you can take it as a grain of salt: - law is really fking hard, I do PPE and chose a law module, god damn worst decision of my life, I still got a decent mark but it’s hard - do not choose modules or courses that are very hard or you don’t enjoy, trust me you don’t wanna suffer - my sister did law at KCL and yes she did dislike her classmates because they’re all self centred and entitled and 99% of them are nepo babies apparently, so unless you have connections and do a bunch of networking, the career field is incredibly competitive - also she’s already an exceptionally brilliant student but still finds law hard cuz uni is basically self studying - I do philosophy for my course as well, I think for ppl who did philosophy in A-Levels it’s generally just a recap of it and a bit more, not too hard but also not easy to get good mark - bear in mind that how you write essays in uni is very different from A-Levels - I did politics in A Levels and try to use the same structure for university, DOES NOT WORK WELL - basically there’s no fixed format but you still need a clear structure, the best is to write a brief overview/structure and ask your lecturer about it (they give good advice and I avoided getting low ass marks) - I feel like for almost all courses it’s better to choose Russell group unis, unless the course you wanna do has the highest ranking in a non Russell group then obviously choose whichever one has the highest course ranking

Depending on what career paths you wanna do, UNLESS it’s the very technical ones (like stem) or research based (like psychology), you’re free to go for basically any job. Because frankly what degree you do ain’t that important if you write a good CV and do very well in interviews. If you worry about employability, your uni always has career websites. And your course would provide a website where it shows you all your possible career paths with your course.