Economics "Chances"

im sorta in the same position as you adk, doubt il be as strong a candidate as you but il try my best. if you dont mind me asking how did you arrange yur work experience??? ive tried with a few places and most havent responded positively. ive been told you really need to know someone working there to get in. was that the case for you or did you just apply normally?? anyway good luck mate

I did Work Experience in Year 10 at an Insurance Brokers (regional work mainly I think, but some pretty big clients) and they have a Financial Services and Investments part of the whole company (which I figured was in some way vaguely related to Economics). Thus, applying there and hoping for a reply but they loved me in Year 10 so all should be good

H&E... What are you studying? Intending to do at Uni? Or are you already at Uni?

Not at uni just yet. However, for various reasons, spent bloody ages doing research about them (though I wish I hadn't).

Where do you wanna go, and what do you wanna study?

Wow that's amazing! You need AAA right?

Nope

GAH! It would be sickening if you had an EEE offer...but then again, I wouldn't be surprised.

Is he/ she THAT clever?!

I don't have a EEE offer, for a number of reasons:
1. I'm not a genius
2. I don't think Oxford gives matriculation offers
3. Cambridge, which does, gives out EE, rather than EEE offers.

Haha. Why would they give an EE offer? Surely they can't want someone THAT badly!

What is your offer?

My offer is AAB.

And yes tehy can want peopel really badly.

Cambridge give unconditional offers to people still at school.
Trinity Cambridge gave Paul Jeffries, who's been on the IMO team since he was 14 (and for the last few years has been the best by miles), and is also in the IIO team (and is the best by miles on the team), an unconditional offer.

It doesn't hurt that he's probably already done 3 A-levels (he's doing 10 in total) and is, so far as I know, the most intelligent school-age person in teh whole country.

Of course, it could be that they gave him that offer coz he's a nice guy. But I'm not sure that is the answer....

What's IMO and IIO?

IMO=International Maths Olympiad. Only 6 people in the country make the UK team each year, and he's done so about 4 times in a row now.

IIO=International Infomatics Olympiad (i.e. computing). I'm not sure how many people qualify for that team, it's probably between 4 and 6, but it doesn't matter coz he's the best in the team.

My offer is AAB.

And yes tehy can want peopel really badly.

Cambridge give unconditional offers to people still at school.
Trinity Cambridge gave Paul Jeffries, who's been on the IMO team since he was 14 (and for the last few years has been the best by miles), and is also in the IIO team (and is the best by miles on the team), an unconditional offer.

It doesn't hurt that he's probably already done 3 A-levels (he's doing 10 in total) and is, so far as I know, the most intelligent school-age person in teh whole country.

Of course, it could be that they gave him that offer coz he's a nice guy. But I'm not sure that is the answer....

I look forward to meeting him in October then. I'd like to see what his social skills are like (not suggesting they don't exist, just curious as to how he finds the time)

I look forward to meeting him in October then. I'd like to see what his social skills are like (not suggesting they don't exist, just curious as to how he finds the time)