LSE Open day - A thorough dissapointment

Neither particularly informative or interesting. Signs falling down, ill prepared speeches, shoddy seats!

I found the departmental talk particularly poor, was anyone else at the philosophy/philosophy & economics one?

There were an astonishing amount of asians/indians.

An astonishing number of Orientals and Indians achieve, or at least are predicted, the grades required to apply to the LSE.

I went last year, being a very organised Year 11 (...well, my friend from Cardiff picked me up on her way to LSE and we got the train together). I didn't really like it - the buildings were pretty dingy and the only good things were the lecturers and the amazing library. I wasn't overly impressed...but I suppose the teaching will be excellent.

Also abhorred the acommodation I was shown...

Neither particularly informative or interesting. Signs falling down, ill prepared speeches, shoddy seats!

I found the departmental talk particularly poor, was anyone else at the philosophy/philosophy & economics one?

I went last year, being a very organised Year 11 (...well, my friend from Cardiff picked me up on her way to LSE and we got the train together). I didn't really like it - the buildings were pretty dingy and the only good things were the lecturers and the amazing library. I wasn't overly impressed...but I suppose the teaching will be excellent.

Also abhorred the acommodation I was shown...

My experience seems to be the better the university, the less effort they put into their open days. Some of the better universities I've been to (including Oxford) were terribly organised. I particularly remember being shown round some of these universities by students who, bless 'em, didn't really have an awful lot to say about anything!! Other experiences being lecturers not turning up or turning up late, projectors not working, people not knowing what to do with this group of 100 prospective students, etc.

However, one university that I did go to was very impressive. It was well organised, using all mod cons to show us how good the uni was. If I didnt know that that university wasnt very well respected, then I would most probably on the strength of the open day alone put them down as first choice.

I dont know why this is. Maybe its because top unis feel less need to pull out all the stops to impress students as their reputation alone should be enough. Maybe its because the top unis are generally research led, and so spend less time worrying about undergraduates.

Btw, names have been with held to prevent people being offended and whining "that uni isnt well respected" or "how dare you call that uni crap". Well apart from Oxford, but Oxford students probably dont care, and shouldnt care, that the open day was lame!

The lecture about london was a waste.

Were you there sanctus? If so, where were you sitting in the philosophy talk.

The only open day I went to at Oxford was amazingly organised (they had all these different discussion groups you could go to, with a choice of subject, followed by lunch at a college of your choice, followed by Q&A with admissions tutors, again a choice of about 15-20 colleges). The guy who organised it is such a good bloke...and he's at my college. Looking forward to being taught by him Sooooooooooo much.

No, I wasn't there. I've been to the LSE several times already and looking forward to studying there from October.

How did you find the philosophy department? It's a nice building...

Didn't get to go to the department, we were just put in a random room and talked to by a lecturer (who was anti-Thatcherite, by the way).

He was disorganised and didn't inspire me at all to study the course.

Maybe they just didnt care about students from scummy, non-selective, northern state schools! We were just given a crappy little map and told to roam Oxford - absolutely nothing more. They actually forgot that we were coming down. Luckily they had many spare rooms!

Probably something to do with the fact that our college has sent about 2 Oxford students in 10 years! One of which was thrown out!

An anti-Thatcherite? Now that will not do. It's amazing that some people still engage in political speeches as if Hayek were never born.