Joint honours personal statement

On average a student doing a Mathematics degree will spend about 12-14Hours a week in classes while an Economics student will spend about 8-10Hours a week. The 2nd degree is much more flexible and covered a wide range of topics/subjects from History to Maths.

If you do Maths maybe it will stand out in the short-term to employeers but an Economics degree will benefit you in the long-term because of the skills and expertise you have. For a Financial role you need to know what you are talking about to others and how to crunch numbers and Economics offers all this.

Also I realised if you do a Math degree, would you really want to spend a year on knowing why Differentiation works? Or would you rather spend a year looking at International Trade between different countries?

Im planning to do an Economics and maths degree..not one or the other lol

Same as me, Maths and/with Econ

I enjoy both aswell and it just wouldn't feel right to drop one but not a lot of unis offer the course (Maths & Econ)

Right now, I've got LSE, Warwick, UCL

I wanted to apply to Oxford but it would be straight Maths, (coz Econ I seem to have no chance), and I know this could be a very hard course

But In my PS, I talk about Maths first, then talk about Economics..... my advice is to try and make it slide into one another.

N.B. If you're thinking of Bristol, don't be fooled by Bristol (Econ & Math) course, they don't like further math as one of your 3 main A-levels, which is a fail seeing that the course is so mathematical

Im thinking of morse at warwick, nottingham, southampton, and then deciding between ucl(econ and stats), sheffield, york, straight maths at manchester or maths and actuarial science at manchester....
Where did you hear that information about bristol? I would love to apply there but there places to applications ratio seems extreme...

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/efm/prospective-undergraduates/admissions/uk-qualifications.html

Enjoy!! (at the bottom title)

lol that seems decent to me im thinking of taking up further maths AS level next year. Are you gonna apply for any straight maths courses?

I need to speak to my teacher if it's worth it, but If I did it would only be at Oxford, the rest would probably be maths &/with economics!!

Im planning to do an Economics and maths degree..not one or the other lol

Nicee..what kind of career do you want to go into?

lol i always used to say 'finance' but to be fair not sure, being an actuary intrests me, also need to find out what all the, hype about investment banking is about.Im guessing you are looking at an economics degree?

Im thinking Economics or Economics and/with Maths...but my priority is to apply to 'Decent' universities that offer placements because I mucked my AS-levels up.

City probably offer placements, what kind of places you looking at?

Well ive got more than a few...they just need shortlisting.

They are: Royal Holloway UoL, Queen Marys UoL, Aston, Surrey, Leicester, Liverpool, Sheffield and some others.

Now just have to shortlist them to 5! What about you?

warwick, nottingham, southampton, sheffield, ucl, york,manchester...lol the only one with have in common is sheffield

Haha Yehh. Im from Manchester by the way and I can tell you for sure...Manchester University ROCKS! The Campus' are great but shame that on Oxford Road were they all mainly are, half is dominated by Manchester University and the other half Manchester Met. Sheffield supposed to do a good Economics and Maths course?

I was thinking Financial Mathematics degree but im unsure?

I know sheffield is decent for maths by its ratings and its economics department seems decent enough, with regards to financial mathematics i would only do the maths and/with financial maths course but i dont think there is a need to do a degree soley based on financial maths...

Yeh thats true...Im thinking of applying for one course which is Mathematics with Economics...because some universities Mathematics courses are lets say a little easier than others.

Aston?