LSE Economics Applicants 2021 Entry

Yeah - still no one has heard from LSE Econ!

I am actually planning to go to Durham over LSE anyway if I don’t get Cam

After Oxbridge, I think LSE/UCL/Durham/Warwick are all equally amazing and just come down to personal preference

In my opinion, I'd say the order of target universities are as follows:
Oxbridge/ LSE
Imperial
UCL
Warwick
Semi-targets

If any of you didn't get into Oxbridge or LSE, would you reapply? Or would you be happy with UCL or Warwick

It’s hard to say.... Durham is a semi target uni for investment banking whereas UCL ICL LSE and Oxbridge are target universities

You must be an LSE student.

I know some people who would put lse below warwick etc....

Cambridge does not have 'worse' job prospects! Also the wages part is kind of irrelevant as money isn't everything

Who said anything about investment banking?? Economics is so much broader than that and if that is all you are interested in then why don't you do Finance?

No economics is the number 1 degree where people get employed as investment bankers

Yeah - still no one has heard from LSE Econ!

I am actually planning to go to Durham over LSE anyway if I don’t get Cam

After Oxbridge, I think LSE/UCL/Durham/Warwick are all equally amazing and just come down to personal preference

Who said anything about investment banking?? Economics is so much broader than that and if that is all you are interested in then why don't you do Finance?

No economics is the number 1 degree where people get employed as investment bankers

GUYYSSS IM LOSING MY PATIENCE. WHAT IS LSE DOING ( lol

yeah CBSE doesnt offer any other subjects combos, like physics, chemistry. If we want to take political science we'd have to drop math and thats obviously isnt possible haha

Hi, I too am applying for BSC Economics 2021!
Alevels predicted: Maths FurtherMaths, Economics, Accounting 4A*
A level physics (giving privately, got A in As)
GCSE 11A* 1A
applied to: UCL, LSE, Kings, Warwick and Oxford(I got rejected)
I haven't heard from any of these universities, does this mean I haven't qualified at all?

hahahahaha i remember my teacher said when you are writing your PS, don't say I want to do econ because I want to work as a banker. ( tbh i was thinking my teacher knows me so well, that is what I want to do

It's still early days! Most people haven't heard back yet! Dw, you're a strong applicant

idts..... I got a 74.1 on my TSA, I still got rejected. Is it probably because I am an international student?

I accept that point if you are working back from career to degree but if you are looking from degree to career, economics can lead to a much broader range of careers than just IB. My point was more that you shouldn't have assumed I was making a bad decision by wanting to go to Durham when in actual fact I don't want to go into IB and actually a small proportion of Econ undergrads will actually go into IB even if you consider, by working backwards, the most investment bankers did Econ degrees.
Good for you if you want to go into IB. Personally I think it is over-romanticised and there are lots of misconceptions (all portrayed in BBC's Industry). Do whatever you want, all I am saying is to just realise that lots of us prospective Econ undergraduates won't be going into IB and you also need to be conscious of what the degree involves as you have to study - and preferably enjoy doing so - for 3 years.
Why I picked Durham over LSE is not to do with 'IB targets' et.c. but rather because I love the uni and the course (where I can study Environmental, Behavioural and Experimental, Financial, Development and Heterodox Econ and much much more!)