New, scared and desperate Romanian student needs help with Economics at LSE

Hello everyone! My name is George and I am from Romania. I have just finished the 11th grade at the best high school in Romania, at the best class, so at the best class in Romania.
I would like to study Economics, at, hopefully, one of the Top 5 UK universities. London School of Economics is on my list. I am very scared and desperate and I am thinking about my future daily. I would really love to get accepted to LSE or Oxford. What is to be done? Could you please help me with successful personal statements and useful pieces of advice?
Here is a part of the activities that I have already done:

Internships: 2 banks, 1 brokerage company + incoming 1 week internship at ICAP in London, in total 2 and a half months of Internships
Academic achievements: Participated in different stages of the National Mathematics Olympiad, National Physics Olympiad, 1st place at a National Physics contest in 2012 and 2013, Special Prize for excellent academic results from my high school in 2011 and 2013
Sports: I have played tennis as a professional for 5 years, I also play football basketball, etc
I also have voluntary work and I have worked as a bartender help for 1 month and for 2 months as a "worker" at a GSM Company

What do you think are my chances of getting admitted?

Thank you in advance for everything! :smile:

(edited 10 years ago)

Reply 1

Pauly

I think your resume is really good. But make sure that your grades meet the basic requirements of the school first or exceeds it. Next, personal statement is extremely important. You need to portray passion in the subject that you want specialise in. in UK universities, grades and personal statement highlighting passion in economics is important. Extra activities just add on to the flavor. The student forum has examples of ps of students who got into lse and Cambridge for economics. Look at those examples to work on