What is a typical day? week? semester? like at the LSE?

Share your thoughts and experiences.

Is being a Home UK student, i.e. a minority amongst the 70% international students, a bad thing?

Do you get to sleep well for 8-10 hours at night or weekends? Or do you have to cram in the library for essay crisis deadlines? Especially for Law?

I wonder can mature students live in Halls for Year 1? and then obviously commute from home as a Londoner born and bred? 🙂 lol

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Stiffy Byng

Original post by thegeek888

Share your thoughts and experiences.
Is being a Home UK student, i.e. a minority amongst the 70% international students, a bad thing?
Do you get to sleep well for 8-10 hours at night or weekends? Or do you have to cram in the library for essay crisis deadlines? Especially for Law?
I wonder can mature students live in Halls for Year 1? and then obviously commute from home as a Londoner born and bred? 🙂 lol

Your 70% figure is inaccurate. The figures for 2023/4 are below. In that year, 2942 of 5976 undergraduates (41.7%) were international. The percentage of international students across the LSE is 63.9. I have a friend who teaches law at the LSE. She does not recommend the student experience there, and also observes that anti-semitism is rife amongst LSE students, and some staff.

https://info.lse.ac.uk/staff/divisions/Planning-Division/Management-Information/Statistics-on-Students

Reply 2

thegeek888

Original post by Stiffy Byng

Your 70% figure is inaccurate. The figures for 2023/4 are below. In that year, 2942 of 5976 undergraduates (41.7%) were international. The percentage of international students across the LSE is 63.9. I have a friend who teaches law at the LSE. She does not recommend the student experience there, and also observes that anti-semitism is rife amongst LSE students, and some staff.
https://info.lse.ac.uk/staff/divisions/Planning-Division/Management-Information/Statistics-on-Students

Oh sorry. I was going by the 70% figure from previous years' data. ☹️

The 41.7% figure is just over 2 in 5 being international students. Which is much more than other universities.

I would firm Oxford (if made an offer) and not go to LSE. I don't like 'tensions' between Christians, Muslims and Jews. But it must be a better atmosphere at Oxford surely?

I went to the LSE Law Open Day with my friend and it was well promoted. However, they all seemed rather 'introverted' types of potential students.

I wonder are you Jewish Stiffy? 😧 Or were you born Christian? I would join the Islamic Society as so many Muslims come from all over the world at Oxford, LSE, UCL, KCL and SOAS. 😉

I do love the area around LSE's accommodation as it is close to KCL, UCL and SOAS as well. However, nothing can beat the Oxford experience of 3 affordable 'delicious' meals a day and 8 week terms. lol 😛

Looking at grade boundaries I know I can comfortably achieve A*A*AA but if I practice a lot of past papers for French and Spanish I could convert them into A*'s too. So, Oxford would be a realistic choice and LNAT would be second nature since I read articles everyday in The Times, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mirror, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and The Economist UK magazine online on: "PRESSREADER APP," which is free with a London library membership card. 😉

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Reply 3

Stiffy Byng

Original post by thegeek888

Oh sorry. I was going by the 70% figure from previous years' data. ☹️
The 41.7% figure is just over 2 in 5 being international students. Which is much more than other universities.
I would firm Oxford (if made an offer) and not go to LSE. I don't like 'tensions' between Christians, Muslims and Jews. But it must be a better atmosphere at Oxford surely?
I went to the LSE Law Open Day with my friend and it was well promoted. However, they all seemed rather 'introverted' types of potential students.
I wonder are you Jewish Stiffy? 😧 Or were you born Christian? I would join the Islamic Society as so many Muslims come from all over the world at Oxford, LSE, UCL, KCL and SOAS. 😉
I do love the area around LSE's accommodation as it is close to KCL, UCL and SOAS as well. However, nothing can beat the Oxford experience of 3 affordable 'delicious' meals a day and 8 week terms. lol 😛
Looking at grade boundaries I know I can comfortably achieve A*A*AA but if I practice a lot of past papers for French and Spanish I could convert them into A*'s too. So, Oxford would be a realistic choice and LNAT would be second nature since I read articles everyday in The Times, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mirror, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and The Economist UK magazine online on: "PRESSREADER APP," which is free with a London library membership card. 😉

My friend's criticism of the LSE, where she teaches, is that it's crowded, that students have little contact with academics, and that the whole system is a bit impersonal. LLM students at UCL, where I teach part time, have good contact with academics, but the undergraduate law school there is also quite crowded, I think, although I don't teach undergrads.

I am entirely Godless. I really do wish you well, the geek888, but, as I say to you all the time, none of your dreams can come true unless you stop prevaricating and take some A levels. You really only need to take three, all in one go. Your plan to take four or five A levels over two or more years has nothing to recommend it, but in any event no plan can succeed unless you actually execute the plan. You have been talking about your plans here for many years, and you never do any of the things that you say you will do. Your confidence in your abilities may or may not be justified, but you can't tell unless you out your confidence to the test.

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