I am looking for information for US students who want to apply to the London School of Economics for the first year of an undergraduate program. I have been looking around, and am having trouble finding info on what kind of applicants are accepted. Can anyone help?
Their site said they like students with 2-4 ap courses, I have over 7 (with all 4 and 5s), and a high gpa. The site wasn’t very specific, that’s why I was looking for some more concrete information about what qualifications a US student needs to be considered.
<p>LSE's admission official came to my school. If you want to get admitted to their management program, you need AP calculus BC and need at least 4 APs. Nowadays it's easier to get admitted as the UK universites as they are under financial crunch and they need international students who pay full tuition.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help, I should have a pretty good chance of consideration then.</p>
<p>Can anyone post a link to the section of their website where it tells the admission requirements for american students including the AP requirement. All I could find is a paragraph telling that students from the US aren't eligible for admission as a freshman, something like an american education can't replace A-levels, therefore most students can't apply until after 1 year in college. So what's the deal for americans applying to the London School of Economics? </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>That's what I have been looking for, the best thing I found so far though is at the college board website. <a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/intad/intad_uk_pop01.html?topic=londoneco%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/intad/intad_uk_pop01.html?topic=londoneco</a></p>
<p>I e-mailed the Student Recruitment Officer asking for more specific information.</p>
<p>Thanks. When they e-mail you back, please post what they tell you, so I can figure out what's going on.</p>
<p>fishmonk, if they've emailed you any info could you post it.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I do not understand the UK system very well except in terms of IB. If our students do the IB diploma, they can be given a conditional acceptance from LSE based on their predicted scores. Final acceptance is based on their IB final exam scores. Some students who do not follow the IB diploma, do a foundation year after they graduate from our high school at a local college or at a school in the UK and then apply. This is for most universities in the UK. They also expect SAT scores from our students since we follow the American curriculum of studies. We have had students go on to the LSE directly after completing their IB diploma. Remember that many students in Europe who complete their IB studies are 18/19 when they finish. University studies are a 3 year program and more focused right from the start.</p>
<p>Yay, finally a thread in which I can actually add some information.</p>
<p>I'm not applying to LSE as I am a chemistry major but I have applied to Imperial College London(and recieved a conditional offer) so I guess I can offer some insight. I left my highschool after my junior year and am currently attending a program at Clarkson University in which I'm taking the same classes that their regular freshman take(so it's sort of a combined senior year of highschool/freshman year of college). Since Imperial and LSE are pretty matched for their academic level(although for significantly different areas of study), my stats might help you. In the UCAS application I put down all my SAT scores(710:700 and a 700:710 for the SATI and SATII's of 800 Chemistry, 720 MathIIC, and 580 Writing). I also had an AP Physics B test score of 5 and predicted grades of A in Chem, Calc, and Physics at Clarkson. My highschool grades are all above 90's since my sophomore year and above 95 for math and sciences. The conditional offer they gave requires me to have A's in Chemistry and Calculus for both semesters at Clarkson. </p>
<p>I'd expect that LSE would want you to have 4-5 AP's with at least three which are relavent to what you intend to study. You probably should expect a condintional offer on your AP scores which requires at least two 5's and another of either 4 or 5. This is just what I've found after spending considerable time researching the British higher education system.</p>
<p>Oh, another important thing is that you should expect to pay a damn lot. Tuition itself won't be too bad(figures I've seen from a few colleges have shown around 8-9 thousand pounds a year for courses of study which have no lab classes). Cost of living seems pretty expensive from the suggested amounts to have each year. For colleges in London, I've seen figures ranging from 7-10 thousand pounds per year as the recommended amount to have per year for living expenses, fees, and books.</p>
<p>do either of you know what IB scores LSE looks for? I'm thinking over 40? but maybe just 37ish? Just curious, I'm done with IB and in a US college where I plan on staying for 4 years, except possibly a semester abroad (in this case, does LSE have gpa requirements for study abroad? Do they only care about your GPA in what you want to study?)</p>
<p>Or, ideas about what grades they look for when students are looking at grad school? And then is it just grades in your major that matter?</p>
<p>Thanks for any info =)</p>