LSE entry for 2014

Exactly my point.
Could you please tell me how it goes? I am an international student so I probably can't phone the school myself
Sadness... I hope it was some kind of administrative error!!

I called and it said the undergrad department is currently closed
& before that they were in a meeting
So freaking frustrating!

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I called and it said the undergrad department is currently closed
& before that they were in a meeting
So freaking frustrating!

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How to approach it... Haha, that's a good question. I think, you just have to be passionate in economics which can be presented in numerous ways. Personally, mine had a large emphasis on various books I have read and what sparked my interest. Also current events that I find very interesting, and that I've read about and looked further into. This is a rather sleep deprived reply, so I'm sorry if there is a lack of coherence and grammatical accuracy... Anyway, obviously your personal statement is very unique, just, if you have passion, and if you are particularly interested in various aspects of economics, convey that as well as you can.

Mine was very academically focused with a brief 'hey, I do other things too' paragraph at the end. Yes, I greatly enjoy various pastimes but that's not why I'm applying to study Economics at university, and neither was it a significant deciding factor in choosing the universities I applied to. So the focus of my personal statement was my great interests in various fields of economics, which books I've read to develop my understanding of those fields, and various thoughts or opinions that I feel are significant in how I view current events and economic theory.

I don't have much advice except to mean what you say, and to say what you're truly passionate in.

What's wrong with them

Check your emails - I just had one saying my personal statement let me down.. Funny how Cambridge are interviewing me but LSE think they're far too good for me :')


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Check your emails - I just had one saying my personal statement let me down.. Funny how Cambridge are interviewing me but LSE think they're far too good for me :')


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Got my 5 week email 6 weeks and 4 days ago... still nothing. Has anyone heard from the Economic History department yet?

Just got the same hun
I'm going to wait for about 25 minutes and if nothing comes through then I'm phoning

I just got an email too!
OMG same here

Oh well
I got accepted to the best uni in S.Korea so
whatever lol

They shall regret this not me
and I must admit that I did write extensively about Philosophy but not enough about Politics...
See you in Cambridge

Hey, I gather you're a mature student from your username - have you already had your Cambridge interview? What did you apply for?

Sorry I'm going a little off track, I haven't seen a lot of mature applicants on here who have applied to the same Unis as me.

I have seen one unconditional for Econ History and another offer for Economics and Econ History I believe, (well the one handled by the Econ History department)...

I'm applying for straight Econ History and have received nothing... Currently 5 weeks and 2 days into the 5 week email... very long

Oh okay :/ I'm applying for Economics and economic history. I know, this wait is torture! Oh well, I guess no news is still better than a rejection, eh?

Yeah I am
Not yet, It's a week today Applied for HSPS but put all of my focus on Politics
How about yourself?

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Ah awesome! I'm HSPS too, but more focused on Anthropology & Archaeology. I've had my interview already, but I totally bombed (the interviewers were lovely and the questions weren't particularly challenging, I just let my nerves get the better of me and got a tonne of facts mixed up).

Best advice I can give for the interview is try and have confident answers prepared for the really obvious questions (why are you interested in this course? why do you think the social sciences are important?) because I didn't and just had the worst, nonsensical verbal diarrhea. But it's a really fun experience and all the students were so welcoming! Plus the exam (if you're doing one) had really broad questions that didn't require much gained knowledge, more exploration of ideas.

Good luck!!

Haha very true I just wish they'd stick to a timeframe that they set or just not stipulate a time frame so we're not constantly checking emails around the 5 weeks deadline :/

I would be going crazy by now but I have an offer from UCL which is keeping me quite content!

I completely agree, but to be fair, the system has gotten better. In the past there never even used to be these 2-week, 5-week or whatever-week email updates, which sucks!

I have offers but am still going crazy! Want to go to LSE sooo badly...