I've got an offer to study maths and economics at both Edinburgh and Bristol but am having a hard time deciding, Anyone have any suggestions?
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Can anyone help me choose between Bristol and nottingham for straight economics. i am really confused
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I've got an offer to study maths and economics at both Edinburgh and Bristol but am having a hard time deciding, Anyone have any suggestions? -
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I've got an offer to study maths and economics at both Edinburgh and Bristol but am having a hard time deciding, Anyone have any suggestions? -
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- 26-04-2012 22:20
Hello Everyone,
I have offers for Economics & Statistics at UCL, and Economics & Maths at LSE. After going to the open day, i prefer UCL over LSE.
However, I am getting mixed opinions from family/friends, with many focusing on the brand name of LSE.
Would I be put at much of a disadvantage at picking UCL over LSE?
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- 26-04-2012 22:29
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Hello Everyone,
I have offers for Economics & Statistics at UCL, and Economics & Maths at LSE. After going to the open day, i prefer UCL over LSE.
However, I am getting mixed opinions from family/friends, with many focusing on the brand name of LSE.
Would I be put at much of a disadvantage at picking UCL over LSE?
Kind Regards,
David -
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(Original post by stackemup)
Hello Everyone,
I have offers for Economics & Statistics at UCL, and Economics & Maths at LSE. After going to the open day, i prefer UCL over LSE.
However, I am getting mixed opinions from family/friends, with many focusing on the brand name of LSE.
Would I be put at much of a disadvantage at picking UCL over LSE?
Kind Regards,
David -
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- 26-04-2012 22:48
If we had a pound for every time someone asked this. Brand name really won't matter that much in the real world.
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- 26-04-2012 22:53
(Original post by stackemup)
Hello Everyone,
I have offers for Economics & Statistics at UCL, and Economics & Maths at LSE. After going to the open day, i prefer UCL over LSE.
However, I am getting mixed opinions from family/friends, with many focusing on the brand name of LSE.
Would I be put at much of a disadvantage at picking UCL over LSE?
Kind Regards,
David -
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- 26-04-2012 22:53
Would I be able to make a competitive app for Economics at Durham, Bristol or Edinburgh with A*A*A* (Maths, Economics, Sociology) as a post A2 applicant and taking Further Maths in my gap year, but with only AAAAABBBCC at GCSE?
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- 26-04-2012 22:59
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Would I be able to make a competitive app for Economics at Durham, Bristol or Edinburgh with A*A*A* (Maths, Economics, Sociology) as a post A2 applicant and taking Further Maths in my gap year, but with only AAAAABBBCC at GCSE? -
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- 26-04-2012 23:01
(Original post by Scorcher)
Would I be able to make a competitive app for Economics at Durham, Bristol or Edinburgh with A*A*A* (Maths, Economics, Sociology) as a post A2 applicant and taking Further Maths in my gap year, but with only AAAAABBBCC at GCSE? -
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(Original post by Brand New Eyes)
If we had a pound for every time someone asked this. Brand name really won't matter that much in the real world.
In other news, recession
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Why does almost everyone who asks a question like this, almost always go for the more prestigious choice, kinda seems like a futile question
(Original post by Scorcher)
Would I be able to make a competitive app for Economics at Durham, Bristol or Edinburgh with A*A*A* (Maths, Economics, Sociology) as a post A2 applicant and taking Further Maths in my gap year, but with only AAAAABBBCC at GCSE? -
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- 26-04-2012 23:07
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Seeing as you've already achieved your A levels, I'd bank on you getting an offer from Durham with those grades - in fact, with those grades, an (presumably) an A* prediction for FM, I imagine you would certainly be automatically pooled for Cambridge (which is useful if your interview goes badly). -
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(Original post by Trizzle)
Possibly not so much Durham and Bristol due to GCSEs, but you have 5 choices so there's harm in trying one or both of them. And of course if you get 3 A*s that would help a great deal and if you get a decent grade at further maths that could help balance the choice of sociology (which is not particularly favoured). Did you do a 4th AS subject?
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Seeing as you've already achieved your A levels, I'd bank on you getting an offer from Durham with those grades - in fact, with those grades, an (presumably) an A* prediction for FM, I imagine you would certainly be automatically pooled for Cambridge (which is useful if your interview goes badly).
I never had any ambition in life and went to a **** state school in London where nobody cared about school including me, but as soon as I moved to a good sixth form college I started enjoying it more. I didn't revise for any of my GCSE exams, literally didn't open a single book or do a single past paper, so I always get depressed that those exams could determine my future when things have changed so much since then for me. Re assuring that good A Levels can partly make up for average GCSE's though!
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- 27-04-2012 10:39
(Original post by thegenius31416)
I had the same choice and I chose Edinburgh (for straight Econ). -
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- 27-04-2012 18:55
(Original post by stackemup)
Hello Everyone,
I have offers for Economics & Statistics at UCL, and Economics & Maths at LSE. After going to the open day, i prefer UCL over LSE.
However, I am getting mixed opinions from family/friends, with many focusing on the brand name of LSE.
Would I be put at much of a disadvantage at picking UCL over LSE?
Kind Regards,
David
this is personal preference really as they're different courses. -
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- 27-04-2012 19:12
(Original post by stackemup)
Hello Everyone,
I have offers for Economics & Statistics at UCL, and Economics & Maths at LSE. After going to the open day, i prefer UCL over LSE.
However, I am getting mixed opinions from family/friends, with many focusing on the brand name of LSE.
Would I be put at much of a disadvantage at picking UCL over LSE?
Kind Regards,
David
But seriously, you seem like you've made your mind up. Which ever you pick, I'm sure you'll be fine. -
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- 27-04-2012 19:36
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Being autopooled for economics at Cambridge isn't something to look forward to, it happens to so many people that your chance after being pooled is worse than when you originally applied (for most colleges). -
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- 28-04-2012 14:31
(Original post by FDR)
It's not something to look forward too, but that isn't what I was getting at - I was saying that with A2 grades that the poster had, he would very likely get an interview, and in the absolute worse case scenario (he completely messes up his interview) he gets pooled - and given the fact that he would already have a couple of A*s at A2, and possibly predicted a third, if he was autopooled, he would still be in a relatively decent position.
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(Original post by Brand New Eyes)
Not many people are fished out of the pool though
say hello to the new leader of the World Bank)
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