The Official LSE Economic History Thread

has anybody heard from the economic history department yet, anyone know of any offers having been given yet?

If they have, they've not posted about it in the main thread. I'm still waiting to hear for Economics and Economic History.

I applied as I needed to fill up my last place, had a completely Economics based (no history) ps, with AAB maths, bio, english..and just got offered an unconditional.. so dont worry about balancing the statement too much!

Hi, I'm an EH second year. Your GCSEs are maybe a little below average for LSE but then your AS grades are very good and in strong subjects (although you could maybe have done with maths for your straight econ applications at the other unis but whatever); I only got AABC in History, Politics, Econ and Maths at AS and they made me an offer. You're probably a fairly good applicant.

I'd say that the personal statement can actually almost be more important than grades for EH. As with any application if you have a genuine interest in the subject they'll be able to tell in your writing. A 50/50 balance could work, and as the person you quoted said an entirely unbalanced one could too, so there's not really a winning formula. The advice I would give would be to try and write a little about an actual concrete area of economic history that you're interested in to demonstrate that you've done a bit of reading into the subject, for example personally I wrote maybe a quarter of mine on what I'd read about financial crises historically, and then show how that relates to why you're interested in the subject/why EH is the best more generally. I suspect that's more convincing than writing vaguely about history or economics, their interaction and why they're important, though that's obviously still worth mentioning. That said the admissions people know that you're unlikely to have properly studied the subject before so don't worry too much, they won't be expecting miracles. Make sure you have a look at the advice the department themselves give on personal statements too, if you haven't already: www.lse.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/howToApply/departmentalAdmissionsCriteria2015/economic_history.aspx

Feel free to PM me if you're still worried, and good luck.

A lot of the successful economic history applications (and variations, etc) are still around in the post results frenzy, along with what regulars there may be, so if you all have any questions then go ahead and ask!

I have only recently decided I want to do economic history but I do history a level and three other essay subjects so should I base my extra reading and things on math/economics as I don't do them?

Hi, I have applied to do economics history and economics and also international relations at LSE. My GCSEs were A*A*A*A*A*A*AAB, my AS were AAAA and my predictions are A*A*A. Do I have a good chance of getting in? and when does LSE normally make you the offer for this course? Thanks a lot for answering, really appreciate it!

Anyone got an offer from the economic history department yet? Sending my application off tomorrow for e&eh

Thats great! Read online that a couple of people have got rejections, but from the sound of it was due to poor AS grades/ predictions.

If you mean the LSE applicants 2016 thread then yeah, haven't seen any on the offer holders thread yet. Last year people were getting offers for e&eh in early december so hopefully they'll start soon. Where else you applied?

yeah ahaha I found the PS horrific to write, took me 18 drafts before it was acceptable. I think they care more about you conveying a genuine interest in economic history than the amount of words you write about it anyway though. It doesn't help that there are **** all economic history PS online for guidance.

wow thats sick having an offer in the bag, I'm applying to pretty much same except Birmingham instead of Bristol. I'm pretty worried I haven't talked about history enough in my PS though, they made it sound like they wanted us to write an economics and history PS at the open day :/