I've just been going through my pile of university stuff and I've found notes that I took from the LSE introduction talk at the open day which might help answer a few questions from a bit earlier in this thread... apparently the ratios of applicants to places are roughly 7:1 for economic history, 12:1 for straight economics, 15:1 for law, 17:1 for accounting and finance, 27:1 for management and 30:1 for international relations. They also said that they make three times as many offers as there are places. Hope that helps answer some previous questions.