private schools + lse

what's your views on this at LSE, is it mainly private school backgrounds? What % it at. Are the international students mainly from private backgrounds or is it different abroad?

I know what i think, just wondering what those abroad etc think

Reply 1

username9303

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I wouldn't say there was a noticeable proportion of privately-educated students at LSE, they mix with the rif-raf like me don't worry :wink:

Reply 2

guccilittlepiggy

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the internationals pay relly high fees so i'd guess they'd be pretty rich

Reply 3

McBeer

guccilittlepiggy

the internationals pay relly high fees so i'd guess they'd be pretty rich

Maybe the international undergrads pay significantly higher fees, but in my MSc. program the fees are the same for both home/EU and internationals.

Reply 4

username9303

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McBeer

Maybe the international undergrads pay significantly higher fees, but in my MSc. program the fees are the same for both home/EU and internationals.

International undergrads pay thousands more.

Reply 5

ghtrevgy

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Not sure how true this is, but one of the reasons my careers advisor recommended that I apply to LSE was because he believed that they were less bias towards accepting state-educated pupils rather then private school pupils. I am under the impression that if most universities had to choose between two identical candidates, the only difference being that one goes to a state school and the other a private school, most would choose the state school pupil. Totally unfair in my opinion, but oh well.

Reply 6

Who?

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seaspray

Not sure how true this is, but one of the reasons my careers advisor recommended that I apply to LSE was because he believed that they were less bias towards accepting state-educated pupils rather then private school pupils. I am under the impression that if most universities had to choose between two identical candidates, the only difference being that one goes to a state school and the other a private school, most would choose the state school pupil. Totally unfair in my opinion, but oh well.

Reply 7

littlemissalex

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in Cy if you want to go to an english school its private, so in effect i go to a private school (home student though). hope there isnt any prejudice or whatever. But remembering back in the bad old days when i applied to oxbridge, i heard that cam looked more favourably at kids from state school bkground than those from private schools; gave them more of a chance i guess

Reply 8

Away from TSR

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in India, it's almost impossible to get a decent education in government funded schools, on top of that education in international universities is bloody expensive. So 99.9% of students in any international university are from private schools. But the exact opposite holds true for the Indian university system, private universities are nowhere as good as state funded ones and usually considered to be "rich student's backup". So, almost all the Indian students you meet are likely to be from a private school but public funded universities, heh!

Reply 9

Earlham

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I went to a private college for undergrad, but before that it was 13 years of public education for me!

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