LSE BSc Economics 2023

Although I'm not the person in question - I can confirm I haven't had any promotional material and I applied in September. The only email I did get was about filling in an applicant form a few days after I applied where I said I was taking the tmua. In January I received another email asking for my tmua score (only because there was a mess up on their end)

Ohh that is a relief !! Thank you for replying.

So no emails after that ? Not even a promotional email or any news letter or anything else ?
Was that the only email received from lse ?

did work experience with PWC or natwest?

i got an information request about admissions tests and further maths

I did no work experience either lol, just Sutton trust

strange.. cause I didn't get any of that .. I did take further maths .. did you apply to oxbridge?

for those who got an offer what do you think made your application ( and specifically PS) successful? For instance, did you talk about lse stuff in your PS?

nope - i hadnt really looked at the course structure in proper detail. I simply talked about the books i enjoyed reading - what i learnt from them etc. I talked about a small project+essay prize and the odd thing here and there too. No need to overcomplicate a ps as you may end up talking too little about too much, Also work experiance is defo not a necessity.

what was this project + essay that you did? Is it something anyone can go for?

The essay was the Dorian fisher memorial prize - they do stuff a couple times a year but any essay comp works. The statistical project was some random work on R programming I did which I linked with the essay prize - so yes anyone can. (Although I did pay £16 in total for two R programming online tutorials which were great as you worked along side the video)

I suppose it is a good idea to enter these essay competitions because even if you don't win, you can still write about it in your PS.

Did you (or know of anyone) get an offer without Further Maths? Since I've heard there is not much in applying if you don't do FM.

saw one guy on reddit without fm. theres always still a chance - but yes if your school offered fm and you didnt take it its quite risky

I suppose it is a good idea to enter these essay competitions because even if you don't win, you can still write about it in your PS.

Did you (or know of anyone) get an offer without Further Maths? Since I've heard there is not much in applying if you don't do FM.

Something they said on open day is that you may be able to make up for it if you can show you have done work to fill the gaps left by not doing FM. For example, you could follow Imperial college‘s MOOC on A level Further Maths and cover the most important areas like stats, pure (other than geometry/trig). It may help for places like LSE and wouldn’t hurt any Econ PS elsewhere. Good luck 🤞