The LSE Freshers Chat Thread

So, has anyone been shopping for essential goods required whilst living away from home? I have no idea what to get apart from a mini fridge and cutlery!

yeah i do see the point, i've firmed st. johns cam and insured LSE for econ, hard decision though

probs LSE for masters although i think MIT etc. is better?

Is your LSE offer AAAE? If so, you could have put Cambs as your insurance. It would mean you could get three As, including Further Maths, and screw up your 4th A level, and you'd make your insurance offer but not your firm.

So, has anyone been shopping for essential goods required whilst living away from home? I have no idea what to get apart from a mini fridge and cutlery!

But, just for explanation's sake, say you're doing Maths, Further Maths, Economics and History.

Your LSE offer is AAAE with the E in Further Maths. So, you would need to get an A in Maths, Economics and History. So, if you got AAAB for example in Maths, Further Maths, Economics and History respectively, you wouldn't make your LSE offer, but, you would make your Cambridge offer (which I'm assuming only requires an A in Maths).

Not much difference I know, but hey!

If Cambs v. London is a hard debate then UK v. US is even harder!

I think LSE devotes a lot of resources to its postgraduate courses so it will be something special (e.g. EME).

What was your Cambs offer? AAA? I saw no point in insuring Downing and went for Warwick's AABB

AAA with 90% in Maths for Cam, and I got rejected from Warwick so no offer lower than AAA for me lol

Might just go into IB though, I think the incentive of lots of money might outweigh utility gained from postgraduate study

Surprising that you chose Cambs then; LSE is renowned for being the kindergarden for IB. Prestige wise same as Cambs but London is on your door + peer pressure gets you to apply for interns ...

yeah, but the oxbridge brand name is always a (however small) plus, and its not like im set on it or anything

& cam is 40 minutes on the train from london, and i dont really see how being in london is gna advantage me, its not like big IB firms dont advertise to Oxbridge

So, has anyone been shopping for essential goods required whilst living away from home? I have no idea what to get apart from a mini fridge and cutlery!

Either Oxbridge rejects or people that would rather spend many more thousand pounds for a similar degree

Pots, pans etc. I literally have no idea what to take either, and I'm used to packing light.. which may/may not be such an advantage here.

The TSR What To Pack page looks pretty extensive (it was quoted by like The Times as a good source for students?..), so I'll probably just go by that.

I may also bring several bottles of cheap booze from here to avoid being hammered by London prices. Does anyone know, are off-licenses universally cheap or are London ones still more expensive than normal?



The LSE Econ/Cam Econ thing's been done to death - you can't claim one set is brighter than the other since you get people who get both offers picking one over the other. True most people seem to pick Cam (just for the fear of turning down Oxbridge), but there's really no shortage of people who've done it the other way around. Economist1 turned down Trinity for LSE if my memory serves correctly.

The LSE Econ/Cam Econ thing's been done to death - you can't claim one set is brighter than the other since you get people who get both offers picking one over the other. True most people seem to pick Cam (just for the fear of turning down Oxbridge), but there's really no shortage of people who've done it the other way around. Economist1 turned down Trinity for LSE if my memory serves correctly.

I thought it was the other way around