Oxford PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) Students and Applicants

In terms of personal statment, does it matter if you write about reading the pop-economics books, like Freakonomics, The Undercover Economist? (I'm not talking about those specifically...)

Also, does it matter that I do not have one particular paper that I read everyday? People keep asking me "what's your newspaper?" and "which paper do you read?" It's making me wonder whether I should have some more consistency.

My school has all of the main papers to read everyday, and I just read whichever one I come across...

I just finished AS... They predicted 4 As, but i'll just wait n see... In the meantime, what colleges are best for PPE? Balliol, Christ Church, Corpus Christi and St. Anne's appeal to me most (cos they wer researched 1st.)

Also, I do History Maths Econ and Geo. No Philosophy, no Politics. So while I KNOW I wanna do PPE, I dont know WHY i want to. So. Anyone who's done PPE, especially at Oxford, Help. PLEASE!!

Also anything useful. Cheers, people.

I'm not a PPEist, but I read the Guardian/Times mostly

I got asked at interview if there had been a recent story that had taken my interest. So it's not like I had to read one paper religiously for months, unless there's a certain columnist you like of course.

I think it is already well know the principles behind the NatSci course, but i have a small question that i'd like to receive an answer for:
i would like to study psychology, but biochemistry and astrophysics are also appealing to me...so i was wondering if there is a chance for Part II(third year) to choose to study Psychology at degree level (for BA) and then choose Part III(fourth year), which is optional, to study Biochemistry for example, or Astrophysics(for MS), but without having studied them in Part II(third year) ?

Any answer and help are welcomed! Thank you in advance ! All the best !

Well there is little in the way of "best".

The colleges with currently the most PPE students across 3 years is:
Balliol - 41
University - 32
New College - 31
Brasenose - 29
Magdalen - 29

However this doesn't tell the whole story, for instance the colleges with the most Economics and Managment students are Pembroke and Hertford college, both of which have very strong economics departments which will benefit PPE students.

By another "best" metric, in 2007 (the only year I have data for) Merton and Christ Church had probably trhe most PPE students graduate with 1st class degrees.

You can't ask people here to tell you why you want to do PPE. You need to find that out for yourself. How will you write your PS otherwise?

Why do I keep losing my subscription to this thread...?!?!

is that "the topic: 'democracy, ethics and globalization'" or "the topic: 'democracy', 'ethics' and 'globalization'"? if the latter it shouldnt be hard to find introductory stuff; if the former, it's probably unrealistic to find something accessible to an absolute beginner.

I too keep losing my subscription to this thread.

I also spent the last three minutes looking for the "It is a mystery" smiley. Did this even exist, or am I going crazy?