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My chance as an international applicant for Oxford PPE (very specific)

Hi, I'm a Korean student following the US curriculum, applying for PPE at Oxford, LSE, UCL, and King's this year. I've been wondering about whether my application is solid, and hope that somebody could give me answers. FYI, I normally get 90+ standardised scores- two to three questions wrong- on the TSA past papers. Yet I'm still so nervous of even making into the shorlist.

My stats :
- 1550/1600 on the SAT (RW: 750 / Math: 800)
- four achieved AP scores of 5 (Microecon / Macroecon / US Gov / Comparative Gov)
- two predicted AP scores of 5 (Caculus bc / Statistics)
- Won(1st place) the National Philosophy Olympiad
- 8.0 on IELTs
Original post by miniminseok
Hi, I'm a Korean student following the US curriculum, applying for PPE at Oxford, LSE, UCL, and King's this year. I've been wondering about whether my application is solid, and hope that somebody could give me answers. FYI, I normally get 90+ standardised scores- two to three questions wrong- on the TSA past papers. Yet I'm still so nervous of even making into the shorlist.
My stats :
- 1550/1600 on the SAT (RW: 750 / Math: 800)
- four achieved AP scores of 5 (Microecon / Macroecon / US Gov / Comparative Gov)
- two predicted AP scores of 5 (Caculus bc / Statistics)
- Won(1st place) the National Philosophy Olympiad
- 8.0 on IELTs


Your stats are impressive! If your personal statement is well written and demonstrates your interests in PPE well, you defo have a high chance of admission for LSE,UCl and Kcl.
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Original post by miniminseok
Hi, I'm a Korean student following the US curriculum, applying for PPE at Oxford, LSE, UCL, and King's this year. I've been wondering about whether my application is solid, and hope that somebody could give me answers. FYI, I normally get 90+ standardised scores- two to three questions wrong- on the TSA past papers. Yet I'm still so nervous of even making into the shorlist.
My stats :
- 1550/1600 on the SAT (RW: 750 / Math: 800)
- four achieved AP scores of 5 (Microecon / Macroecon / US Gov / Comparative Gov)
- two predicted AP scores of 5 (Caculus bc / Statistics)
- Won(1st place) the National Philosophy Olympiad
- 8.0 on IELTs

Nah, that's impressive, you definitely stand a chance in the application process!

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