Economics Applicant Thread UCAS 2012

I think LSE students are one of the most career motivated students in the world. I think they wouldn't really like people coming to them and asking their grades, especially someone they don't know. It seems that you were interrogating them, asking all 10 what their grades were and where they work. Isn't that a bit excessive? So that is why they gave you some unmotivated answers.

I got bored so I started asking them if they completed any internships yet, only two said they did. Can't remember what the names of the banks were but they weren't any out of the (GS, CS, BarCap, JP, MS, DB), didn't look like any of them had the passion to go into banking. Hell some of them didn't even know what they wanted to do. I would think by the time your a second year at university you would have some thought of what type of career you want to pursue.

Anyone got M1 tomorrow? How's revision going?

Edexcel? Pretty bad going atm, I did Jan 2011 earlier and got around 78%, now I'm just going through the textbook again. I'll do the June 2011 tonight...

Not confident for tomorrow at all

How about you?

i applied on the oct 15 deadline and have been rejected by cambridge.

GCSEs: 9.5A*s 2As

AS: AAAB

guess i got an offer today as there was something warwick needed to check regarding my biology AS and when it was resolved, they thought they may as well send me my decision letter asap...

but i feel seriously lucky. i know how fussy warwick can be about AAAA at AS level so really shocked!

Going through the Solomon papers, feeling decent, but the speculation about Edexcel increasing the difficulty of their papers is worrying me!

Went to LSE yesterday with a friend who had a shadowing lecture for BSc Economics as he plans to apply their next year. Went to two lectures, had a tour, visited the library, sat down and spoke with current students (first and second year). It wasn't very good in my opinion. With all the hype I mean I thought LSE would be amazing. The lecturers were the "Run in, give lecture and then run out" type. As for the students the 11 people I spoke to only 3 were home students. It's packed with students from abroad. They all had amazing A-Level grades with an average of 7A*'s at GCSE between the 10 of them. As for A-Levels the foreign students had over 5 A's at A2 with the two home students having the standard A*AA or A*A*A. I got bored so I started asking them if they completed any internships yet, only two said they did. Can't remember what the names of the banks were but they weren't any out of the (GS, CS, BarCap, JP, MS, DB), didn't look like any of them had the passion to go into banking. Hell some of them didn't even know what they wanted to do. I would think by the time your a second year at university you would have some thought of what type of career you want to pursue.

I'm not applying for Economics so my view may be different to yours although for me LSE didn't live up to its expectations.

Aren't Internships normally during the penultimate year? So it isn't that surprising that they haven't done any

Jesus wept.

Aren't Internships normally during the penultimate year? So it isn't that surprising that they haven't done any

Aren't Internships normally during the penultimate year? So it isn't that surprising that they haven't done any

Going through the Solomon papers, feeling decent, but the speculation about Edexcel increasing the difficulty of their papers is worrying me!

really?? S1 and S2 were the easiest papers I've done, where do you hear that from? (I haven't done any others this Jan but will be doing C4, in a way I hope for a hard paper, cos I hate narrow boundaries!!)

Second year is the penultimate year

Second year is penultimate year isn't it?

Yes, but the 8-12 internships are usually done in the summer of the 2nd year, so between end of 2nd year and beginning of 3rd...

Nottingham offer! AAA or AABB (13 mins ago if anyone was wondering)

Nottingham offer! AAA or AABB (13 mins ago if anyone was wondering)

Nottingham offer! AAA or AABB (13 mins ago if anyone was wondering)

Congrats!!! Finally more offers are rolling in

Congratulations, Econ with German?

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