Economics Applicant Thread UCAS 2012

Lord vulture, Do you live in the UK ?
I am thinking of applying to American Uni's too but I just don't know where to start, any advice ?

Back in my day they started coming through in mid-to-late November. But that was a long time ago (4 years! ) now.

hey what are your studying and which university?? (If you're still in Uni)... sorry im just wondering cos im from hk too

yes i go a boarding school here.. as for american unis, I hope your school has a sort of teacher in charge of american applications. If not, read the information on respective websites for application, and get started with preparing with SATs... ( they are very time consuming to prepare, and you won't be able to get into the top universities with an average SAT score :P

hey what are your studying and which university?? (If you're still in Uni)... sorry im just wondering cos im from hk too

hey what are your studying and which university?? (If you're still in Uni)... sorry im just wondering cos im from hk too

Graduated from Cambridge studying Economics earlier this year, now in Beijing learning Mandarin at Tsinghua. Further details are in my profile.

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not playing rugby anymore, gone swimming instead, good luck though :P and what are you doing on this thread :P

oo I applied for maths AND economics, its different from maths with economics, the latter is more maths orientated, but anwyay, what other unis have you applied to?? (for maths i presume unless u have a last minute chance of mind)

if you mean me, then i applied for cambridge, imperial, warwick, lse and ucl. maths at the first two, and maths and stats at warwick and ucl. what about you then? i presume you went for cambridge, what college then?

im going for cambridge, lse, ucl and warwick all econ, got rejected for maths + econ for lse

what are you applying for at lse??

oo thought you were going for oxford :P Im applying for homerton

im going for cambridge, lse, ucl and warwick all econ, got rejected for maths + econ for lse

what are you applying for at lse??

oo thought you were going for oxford :P Im applying for homerton

im going for cambridge, lse, ucl and warwick all econ, got rejected for maths + econ for lse

what are you applying for at lse??

wow! that's surprising. Mind sharing your academic info? and how was your PS? i haven't heard anything from lse since the acknowledgement letter.

i applied to the same universities as you, all econ (LSE pure econs and maths + econs, homerton at Cambridge too!)

so many ppl have gone for homerton lol... yet it is still one of the easiest to get into on paper, 11A*s and 5A* predictions and like 98% average in ASes... one would think that I stand a good chance at LSE right?? lol

you're lucky LSE hasn't rejected you for maths and econs given that you are also applying for pure econ :P I suppose your ps is more maths orientated?? cos I didn't mention any maths in my ps

yeah, thought you would have a good shot at lse. how many people do you know are applying for econs at homerton?

pure econs and maths+econs are of different departments. i know people who got offers for both. my ps geared more towards economics but i have a paragraph on mathematics. may i know when were you rejected? i sent off my application on 15th sept.

i know, maths + econs is done by maths department so not mentioning maths was probably not be a good idea...but anyway, I wouldn't have gone had I got an offer anyway, btw i sent mine off later than you, so you're still in the game :P

i don't know anyone outside student room whos applying for homerton, there seems to be 2 others apart from us on TSR although I suspect those two are the same person trying to put off others from applying, but again im not sure. 2-3 people really doesn't make a difference, as homerton is undersubscribed anyway, so they just take fewer from the pool if its good applicants, and more if the average standard is lower.

anyhow, good luck, hopefully we'll both be at cambridge next year :P
btw you sent your essay yet??

also did you put your AS scores on your UCAS for LSe? cos its kinda weird they didn't ask for it unlike UCL