LSE vs Cambridge

There is something to that I suppose.
But wouldn't you want to enjoy your 3 years at university as well?

As opposed to the rest of my life afterwards? Actually in all honesty i choose a uni with a lesser reputation over one which is fairly good (queen mary over SOAS) and have regretted it ever since, yes i had a good time but it has always played in the back of my mind.
i personally want to give myself the highest possible entry level into the labour market, thats the predominant consideration.
So all this "best unis are subjective" talk is unhelpful and obscures the reason one goes to university.

yes the difference is minimal at such a level, i would actually say LSE slightly beats oxbridge for jobs. Thats my point, LSE admission process is easier to bluff through with similar propects to oxbridge, so why bother with oxbridge.

well the admission process for LSE excludes an interview and internal examination. From my own personal experience LSE is very lax and seemingly resembles a business rather than an purely govt funded academic institution (not that its bad). Do you think it is viable to talk about UCL vs Cambridge? Or is the difference too immense?

For Economics, UCL is right up there with LSE and Cambridge. But from my experience their admissions process is to try and filter out those who are not going to use them as their Firm choice. Hence the mandatory open days before getting an offer. At the open day I went to, they even said that they tried to see from your Personal Statement if you applied for Economics and Management or PPE at Oxford and if so would generally avoid giving you an offer.

Hah! That's weird. Most people that apply to Oxbridge get rejected anyway, and then end up with offers from neither unis.

I applied to UCL on Jan the 15th, and they know I applied to Cambridge (ignorant referee put it in her reference). Do you think they figured out that I had already been rejected by Jan 15th?

*cough cough* London school of ECONOMICS. If you're serious about economics and finance etc. how can you NOT know about it? Ranked first in England and very prestigious with the WHOLE WORLD when it comes to economics???

Oxford and to a lesser extent, Cambridge are fairly famous in the US, though there is a perception that they are not as good as the Ivies.

Yeah, it doesn't really make sense on UCL's part.
However, I think it's because they took in too many students for L100 this year (I've read on here that they have 200 students for 160 places).
So I suppose it's just easier to automatically reject many of the Oxford applicants.


They should be able to figure it out, but as the UCL representative at the open day kept on saying, they have had over 2500 applicants for L100 this year, so I don't know if they will spend enough time on each individual application to notice the date of application.

I applied to R990, though. 400 applicants for 40 places. 100 get invited for invited and so did I. Must be some awkward situations to look forward to, when the adm tutor is sitting in front of me reading my reference.

"..applying for the Philosophy programme at the University of Cambridge."

Ghaha! Bitter laugh.

Oxford and to a lesser extent, Cambridge are fairly famous in the US, though there is a perception that they are not as good as the Ivies.

The LSE is not terribly well known in the US.
In fact, apart from circles like academic economists, I would say that the LSE is virtually unknown in the US.

President Josiah Bartlett?

Typical American attitude.

And what about the less impressive, but nonetheless cool, john f kennedy

Well, apart from a few subjects (Oxford for Classics and Philosophy, Cambridge for Mathematics ) they actually are not as good as the Ivies.

I cant see Law or Economics at Oxford or Cambridge competing with Harvard Law School or Harvard Business School or Wharton Business School.
Or Engineering at Oxford or Cambridge competing even with non-Ivies like Caltech, MIT or Stanford.
Or even with non-US places like the IITs