<p>Chance a U.S. Student for the LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS </p>
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<p>All right. This is my position. I am a high school senior who is an American and who got shafted by good American Schools, and was thinking about applying to LSE. The applicaion date has passed, so they will consider me as a late applicant. I was waitlisted at WashU/Emory/Boston College. I was rejected at Duke/Cornell/Brown/Rice/Northwestern/Johns Hopkins.....</p>
<p>Sat Scores(I don't know if they care about this)
750-Critical Reading
750-Math
700-Writing</p>
<p>1500/1600(critical reading and math), and a 2200/2400(overall)</p>
<p>High School GPA-3.8 Unweighted, and 4.1 weighted with 10 A.P.s and 6-7 honors classes out of 28 total high school classes.
Class Rank-Top 15 Percent.....this is why I didn't get into any good American schools. </p>
<p>I want to do Economics History at LSE</p>
<p>These are my AP Test Scores(Don't laugh, they suck ****)
A.P. World History- 4-----Took it in 10th grade
A.P. United States History- 4-----Took it in 11th Grade
A.P. Calculus AB - 4------Took it in 11th Grade
A.P. English Language and Composition- 3---------Took it in 11th Grade(constantly fell alseep in this class, teacher was really boring)</p>
<p>This year I am taking....
A.P. English Language
A.P. Government
A.P. Economics
A.P. Biology
A.P. Calculus BC</p>
<p>Oh and I can pay full, I was able to pay full for any American school listed above, and they cost 50,000 a year but they don't want me. I think LSE with living expenses and a weak dollar may come out to 40,000-50,000 a year.</p>
<p>Sorry to tell you, but don’t bother :(</p>
<p>Yes, they have rolling admissions but that admission date is for UCAS (the main system that handles all the applications to all unis). LSE’s specific date was January 15th. You can technically still submit your application after that but it will be read after every single application that was turned in on time. LSE decision dates/offers came out before April 1st and so you can no longer turn in applications for this cycle. </p>
<p>What were your ECs? Did you not have any? I think that might have been your problem…</p>
<p>I know LSE has rolling, but what if not enough people accept their offer lets say they still have 36 spots in their class, then will they look at my application?</p>
<p>My class rank sucks, and thats what messed me up…</p>
<p>I did have Ecs…</p>
<p>I tuturoed disadvataged kids for 4 years.
I was in fencing for 6 years.
I was in Hosa for all 4 years
I was in National Honor Society all 4 years.
I was in NTHS all 4 years.
I did 500 hours of internships at a Doctor’s Office
I did 310 hours of internships at a local hosptial</p>
<p>All offers have been given out. What you could do is still send in your application and hope that enough people don’t make their offers. It’s worth a try but know that LSE gives 3x the offers as it has spots. Check the economic history course section on their website and they’ll tell you the exact number of spots.</p>
<p>You need to check the minimum AP scores they require because although your GPA and SATs are excellent, your AP scores might cause some worry. Your teachers would have to send in predicted scores for the AP exams and you should aim for all 5s.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>^^^ Thanks, I also want to try for kings college…</p>
<p>I was wondering if LSE practices AA, i am an ORM so I was wondering if they consider race/social economic status as part of their application…</p>
<p>At Kings you might be able to do something called a private application. 99% of all applications go through UCAS but every once in a while foreign students can apply privately, because they pay a lot more. You can give that a shot at Kings. I’m not sure about LSE since I heard they have a VERY strict UCAS-only policy but it’s worth a shot.</p>
<p>I’m not too familiar with private applications so calling the admissions office is best. My only worry: KCL does not have an economic history course, unless you wanted to apply there for something else.</p>
<p>And no, LSE does not practice any kind of AA. Walk around campus and you’ll see that 50% students are the same kind of Indian guy. The school does not care at all about diversity. FYI, English college system = COLD. AS. ICE. They have no mercy so don’t expect to get your application looked at holistically. The only schools that do that are Oxford and Cambridge because of their extensive interview process.</p>
<p>This doesn’t make much sense. Did you not apply to a safety, or were you suspended/expelled/arrested in high school?</p>
<p>And yea, what happened to your safeties? Your class rank is fine. Actually BC should have been within easy reach for you. Sorry about your luck, mate.</p>
<p>I got into my safteys. No I wasn’t arrested or suspended anything. I never even had a detention in my life. My recs were great, all my teachers put me down as top 5 percent of all the kids they have ever taught(all the teachers that wrote my recs have been teachers for 20+ years)…My counselor even said in her rec, that my school is so compeitive that at surrounding schools in my area, I would have been ranked anywhere from top 5 percent to valedictorian…I have really bad luck and a sshhitty class rank…</p>
<p>@bluebubbles…Funny thing about the indian guy, I am indian LOL (my parents are from india)…</p>
<p>I guess I have turned my back on the college admissions process. I did everything I could, and I still got screwed over…class rank is very important for college admissions; really good recs and ecs can’t make up for the 1 flaw in my application…</p>
<p>Wait, what were your safeties? Go there and transfer!</p>
<p>Haha, well, I guess you’re set with that perspective! They love Indian guys. </p>
<p>OK, it really WASN’T your class rank. Top 15% is fine and they know you were coming out of a tough school. I’m thinking it was your ECs. They seem to be a bit “un-connected” to each other and I don’t see where your passions lie. For example, you want to do economic history but why were you working for a doctor all those hours? How about you take a holistic look at what interests, what ECs you did, and plan a gap year around one of those things? Gap years are not that bad, I took one, and it was the best decision of my life. If you really don’t want to go to one of your safeties I think this might be the best way to go.</p>
<p>Also, the University of Edinburgh has an excellent economic history department and is always looking for American applicants since St. Andrews seems to snap those up. Plus, European/British students pay $0 to go there and they’ll appreciate a full-paying foreign student. Try UE.</p>
<p>^^ Thanks for the help, bump…</p>
<p>What do you still need to know?</p>