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Well, I thought it would be interesting to know how many of our applicants are male and female.

Vote, and chat away about the wonders of LSE.

Reply 1

donamique

Isn't it supposed to be almost equal proportions of male and female? According to the following sites that is:

http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/undergraduateProspectus2009/whyLSE.htm
http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/undergraduateProspectus2008/whyLSE.htm

Reply 2

Nadinus

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Femaleeeee

Reply 3

Nadinus

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Also I didn't realise how small it was until I saw that - my school isn't much bigger than that!

Reply 4

AirWave

AFAIK total F:M ratio at lse is about 50:50. but for econ it's sth like 36:64
I wonder why (well, obviously I don't mind coz I am a girl :smile:

but still)

Reply 5

tourist

9

I don't believe the stats, it's full of men as far as I can see. Except Anthropology.

Reply 6

Callipygian

2

It has a male reputation thats for sure. Although i'm female, might not get in though...

Reply 7

username138327

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I voted female! It was about our 'preference' wasn't it? :wink:

Reply 8

whats_its_face

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Everyone knows that girls are stupid and dont know how to work computers.

Reply 9

Callipygian

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whats_its_face

Everyone knows that girls are stupid and dont know how to work computers.

What?

Reply 10

donamique

AirWave

AFAIK total F:M ratio at lse is about 50:50. but for econ it's sth like 36:64
I wonder why (well, obviously I don't mind coz I am a girl :smile:

but still)

The exact broken-down figures were published here:

http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/calendar/statisticsOfStudents/statisticsOfStudents1.htm

According to what's shown, graduating Economics batch last year was 64% male (you're right on that); current year 3 Economics students would probably be around 61% male; year 2 Economics students would probably be about 55% male. No data available for year 1 Economics students until maybe 31 May...

The gender gap for the Econs course seems to be closing over the years according to those stats...

The table's also useful in providing some information on drop-out/transfer rates.

Reply 11

DannyBoy123

15

Government seems fairly balanced from that...although given that there will be loads of people doing government and history, government and econ etc. its hard to guess at how lectures etc. will break down (I can't be bothered to work it out and frankly I don't care!).

Reply 12

alpday

donamique

The exact broken-down figures were published here:

http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/calendar/statisticsOfStudents/statisticsOfStudents1.htm

According to what's shown, graduating Economics batch last year was 64% male (you're right on that); current year 3 Economics students would probably be around 61% male; year 2 Economics students would probably be about 55% male. No data available for year 1 Economics students until maybe 31 May...

The gender gap for the Econs course seems to be closing over the years according to those stats...

The table's also useful in providing some information on drop-out/transfer rates.

I really dont get that table?? how can the numbers go up and down so much over a 3 year course??

Reply 13

Chrisateen

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whats_its_face

Everyone knows that girls are stupid and dont know how to work computers.

I did computing at AS and in my coursework got 100/102 :cool:

and can do lots of stuff on the computer :p:

what can you do??? :confused:

Reply 14

The Sherminator

OP

16

It was a joke.
Don't get on the guy's back, he was just poking fun.

Reply 15

Chrisateen

14

The Sherminator

It was a joke.
Don't get on the guy's back, he was just poking fun.

we know

Reply 16

DannyBoy123

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Chrisateen

I did computing at AS and in my coursework got 100/102 :cool:

and can do lots of stuff on the computer :p:

what can you do??? :confused:

Do you mean 100/120?

Reply 17

The Sherminator

OP

16

She had a special exam Danny :p:

I am not liking the ratio, too many guys :s-smilie:

Reply 18

whats_its_face

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The Sherminator

It was a joke.
Don't get on the guy's back, he was just poking fun.

Thanks for helping me out. These little girls were bullying me :mad:

Reply 19

donamique

alpday

I really dont get that table?? how can the numbers go up and down so much over a 3 year course??

Fluctuations ain't that big?

As an example, we could look at year 1 Economics students for the 2004-05 session. That's 109 guys, 63 ladies.

In session 2005-06 they would have become year 2, so that's 122 guys and 67 ladies (which is reasonable given that many people tend to want to transfer into Economics, so much so that the department publishes clear guidelines on its website for such a transfer).

In session 2006-07, they become year 3 students with 121 guys 67 ladies. That's one guy down and he probably dropped out. Or... he went for an operation and another lady dropped out. :p:

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