Economics applicant thread UCAS 2014

Are you at Tiffin Girls?

Adjustment is when you get grades that exceed your offer by quite a bit. With this you phone up universities and then them you had an offer from University A who gave you an offer of CCC but you got AAA. If they have places available and want to take you on then they will give you an offer.

As for which univerisities, I guess you can apply above and get your prediction higher than a B or apply to some good AAB universities such as York, Surrey etc.

They came second in the regional heat and lost out to one of the bets schools in the country so we did quite well. Usually you get 3-4 good schools that do their research and can answer the questions, but the rest are usually not that great. You also come across lots of people who really suck at public speaking so it can get a bit tedious to listen to them stutter and mess up their lines for the whole day, but it was relatively entertaining since I got on well with two of the people in the team.

I don't remember much about it in precise detail, but I remember lots of talk about zombie firms and J-curves, but other than that I'm afraid I can't remember a great deal. If your school does a good presentation then it's likely the judges will give you some really tricky questions about how the solutions you have proposed might might not work in a particular situation and ask you what would be your response, but again I can't remember specifics.

Most of the presentations are pretty similar and the Bank of England people don't really like it that much if you start trying to be controversial, as they are allowed to be since you're basically saying that they as an institution have got it wrong.

In the end, the team that ended up winning basically said uncontroversial things (I think they made slight changes to current Bank of England policy, but nothing more) and answered the questions well.

Man, I'm so annoyed. Apparently, I didn't have the highest UMS in economics in my year which might put my chances of getting captain for target 2.0 into jeopardy.

In any case, what is a good AAA university for economics (excluding Birmingham)? I've put my other 4 choices down on UCAS already (which are Cambridge, LSE, UCL and Warwick) but I need to decide on an insurance. Anyone have any suggestions? I've put St. Andrews down preemptively.

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what's wrong with St Andrews ? best Uni in scotland for Economics , very highly respected by employers in the UK.

That said other options you could consider might be Edinburgh , York or Manchester - just as examples.

Man, I'm so annoyed. Apparently, I didn't have the highest UMS in economics in my year which might put my chances of getting captain for target 2.0 into jeopardy.

In any case, what is a good AAA university for economics (excluding Birmingham)? I've put my other 4 choices down on UCAS already (which are Cambridge, LSE, UCL and Warwick) but I need to decide on an insurance. Anyone have any suggestions? I've put St. Andrews down preemptively.

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Sorry, I didn't mean any offence. It's just that I haven't done much research admittedly into my insurance choices (which puts me to shame considering there is just over a month before the early entry deadline) and I'm not sure how they compare.

I literally just picked a random AAA uni from my tutor2u booklet but I'll be sure to do more in-depth research tomorrow.

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Unlucky mate, what were your UMS scores? Mine weren't the best, but my teachers like me so

Bristol have a good course - Economics with study in continental Europe which is 4 years that is AAA

Well, I got 192/200 in economics which I was pretty chuffed with in all honesty. We have to deliver a presentation on the UK economy to get into the team; there's 8 people applying for the 4 spots with the best becoming captain so the competition is fierce.

I think I'll look into that; a year in Europe doesn't sound so bad. :P

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Sorry, I didn't mean any offence. It's just that I haven't done much research admittedly into my insurance choices (which puts me to shame considering there is just over a month before the early entry deadline) and I'm not sure how they compare.

I literally just picked a random AAA uni from my tutor2u booklet but I'll be sure to do more in-depth research tomorrow.

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Are you at Tiffin Girls?

Are you taking part in Target 2.0 this year?
I'm a captain of the team in my school but I just hope I will have enough time after submitting my PS - getting down to it seriously tomorrow.

90% certain I'll be taking part in it since I went along to watch last years team. That being said 6 people have signed up for it, so there's a small chance my Economics teacher won't pick me (but it's quite unlikely).

Unlucky mate, what were your UMS scores? Mine weren't the best, but my teachers like me so

Bristol have a good course - Economics with study in continental Europe which is 4 years that is AAA

I just had a look at that course and it says you need a language at AS

When you present your ideas at the first stage, is there a lot of people watching it?

No not really, 40-50 people at the very most

Ahh, unlucky. I take French A Level so I will probably still go for it.

There are many universities that let you spend a year in the USA and other english speaking countries, China, etc. (I think Nottingham have lots of international links for that kind of thing) so don't be disheartened