PPE, Law and Accounting&Finance

Hi I’m a year 12 student studying Maths, English literature and Economics. I got 9987777666 in my GCSE and I go to a non-selective state school. My dream is Oxbridge+LSE which are very competitive and obviously still early in sixth form so I actually need to get the predicted grades before I think about applying. I’m just curious about super curriculars I can do now to prepare. Especially for PPE as I don’t do politics or philosophy. I’m also unsure about what to study or what job I would like in the future, I just want to learn as much about careers and degrees in year 12.

on a serious note, get 4A* predicted and you'll be fine

Where am I supposed to get the 4th A* from if I’m doing 3, I thought unis only look at top 3??? I also go to a non-selective state school where the average is a 5. Ok maybe I should rule out Oxbridge+LSE but surely not ALL Russell groups will rule me out just cause I didn’t get all 9s

Where am I supposed to get the 4th A* from if I’m doing 3, I thought unis only look at top 3??? I also go to a non-selective state school where the average is a 5. Ok maybe I should rule out Oxbridge+LSE but surely not ALL Russell groups will rule me out just cause I didn’t get all 9s

Im sorry for being unserious. the guy who said im a cynic is also my friend. I'm also applying PPE and im in yr 13 doing maths, further maths, history and economics. I found doing essay competitions really helpful. Some good ones are the John Locke, FCDO Government competition, and IEA Monetary essay competiton. Don't be discouraged if you don't place in any at first, i only placed in late august and early september for some competitions. Your GCSE profile is decent but LSE do look at GCSE scores a lot and considering many people have many more 9s and 8s it will definitely be competitive. Warwick is also rly good for PPE so I'd consider there. York is good too. I don't do politics or philosophy either but doing some reading is good. I recommend Wolff's 'An Introduction to Political Philosophy' and 'Why Nations Fail'. If you wanna go to Oxford for PPE they have an admissions test called the TSA. for philosophy, you can check out the cambridge logic textbook as logic will most certainly come up in the philo interview. Anything non-academic isn't worth it unless you can relate it to your personal statement. Hope this helps!

i focused on educational economics in my personal statement which i tied into essays i wrote for essay compts and some volunteering experience

Also I wouldn't suggest accounting and finance, not very well respected and quite bad career prospects in comparison to econ, PPE or lse finance.

In addition to this it isn't too late to take a 4th a level, I would suggest philosophy, history or further math IMO politics isn't as well respected.