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Hi - would you recommend any books on the financial crisis (that tell you how it occurred and the lessons learnt) and its a book which is concise and easy to read for a level students? Is there any other books that you recommend to read for wider reading? Thanks.

If you are looking for a studio, your best bet is probably urbanest Hoxton however you would have to take the train (approximately - 29 minute journey time). Your budget is high so that is probably the best option.
Bankside is also good but it's much cheaper than your budget - circa 200.
I'd personally rule out Tufnell house as it's the furthest away.

Hi there,

I would imagine that this question has already come up before, but I am concerned by the number of people who have told me that the LSE is a very lonely place and that it is very difficult to have a social life there. Is that true?

Hi there,

I would imagine that this question has already come up before, but I am concerned by the number of people who have told me that the LSE is a very lonely place and that it is very difficult to have a social life there. Is that true?

Hi there,

I would imagine that this question has already come up before, but I am concerned by the number of people who have told me that the LSE is a very lonely place and that it is very difficult to have a social life there. Is that true?

Thanks I understand you probably do not have specific knowledge on admissions, was just hoping you may know a student with slightly lower GCSEs! :P

If it's meant to be it's meant to be I suppose.


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Hey, I got much worse GCSE grades than you with only 3-4 A's majority of Bs and only 1 A* in maths, including a grade C in GCSE English Language where LSE require a grade B but it still didn't stop me getting an offer to study maths with eco there. I'm currently going into my second year this year having achieved a 1st for my first year.
My AS levels were: Maths (A), Further Maths (A), Chemistry (A) and computing (B)
and A Levels: Maths (A*), Further Maths (A) and chemistry (A)...barely just met my offer but apparently, quite a few people missed their offer in my year and still got accepted by LSE...like one of my friends doing accounting ended up with AABB with a B in maths and still got accepted, achieving a 2:1 in their first year! So all you have to do is make an awesome PS and put in the hours to get good A Levels...hope it helps!

P.S. Feel free to "give rep" to me by going on my profile haha if it helped

Congrats on getting into LSE and getting a 1st in your first year!

Any tips for the personal statement? I heard that it's one of the most important things for LSE

Tbh, I didn't think think I'd get an offer with my personal statement since I didn't even meet their minimum requirements of a grade B in English Language so I guess this shows how much they emphasise on the PS cos it must have been quite good for them to accept me. What I did for my PS, was to first look at other student's PS who got into oxbridge studying maths etc. and looked at the content they included:

- Awesome starting paragraph which entices you to read further about your passion for the subject (for me it was maths and I kind of hinted its relevance to economics vaguely - only point in the PS when I even mentioned anything economics related lol)
- Talk about your extra curriculars in next paragraph and the subjects you study and what in particular interests you (like I talked about my passion for pure maths and demonstrated this by reading a relevant book and talking about what it entailed etc.) Also talk about achievements like for example, I took the UKMT Mathematics challenge and got a silver award.
- Your final paragraph really is summarising your key strengths and answering the question of "Why you would be perfect for this course?"


Hope this helps!

P.S. just reminding about the rep again haha ...kinda like how they do at the end of youtube vids :P