Politics and Economics vs Philosophy and Economics?

Hi everyone. I'm thinking of applying to either of these courses at LSE, however Politics and Economics states that a subject combination of Maths, Further Maths and Economics is less competitive application while Philosophy and Economics is okay with this combination. Can anyone explain why, since they both have 50% of the course being Economics. Thanks

Hi everyone. I'm thinking of applying to either of these courses at LSE, however Politics and Economics states that a subject combination of Maths, Further Maths and Economics is less competitive application while Philosophy and Economics is okay with this combination. Can anyone explain why, since they both have 50% of the course being Economics. Thanks

Philosophy can be very logic based, which means that if you are good at maths, you can pick more logic based modules since this would play to your strengths. With politics, it is pretty much all essay writing (whilst philosophy can be, there are options for it not to be). Whilst it is a stereotype, which I would judge largely to be true (though undoubtedly with a decent amount of exceptions), people who don't do essay subjects at A-Levels sometimes can struggle with the style and volume of having to write a whole bunch of essays at university, which is why your A Level combination would be regarded as less competitive for Politics and Economics- they are pretty good for PPE at Oxford though if you would consider applying for it, because they tend to like candidates who are good at maths since a lot of the admissions criteria seems to skew toward economics.