Oxford is my dream school. I’m currently a junior and I’ve heard of the math recommendations, especially for the economics portion. By the end of high school, I will have only taken algebra 2, geometry, and pre calc (all honors). I do have a space for one math elective my senior year. Would you recommend taking ap calc concurrently with pre calc (I don’t even know if that’s possible), taking ap stats senior year, or taking a community college class for calc? Thanks!
Or consider a subject w/o Econ. IR at St Andrews, Edi, UCL, LSE? Take a look at Kings War College- it has some super options. Politics at Durham (collegiate, like Oxbridge) or Exeter? HisPol at Oxford (if your history background is strong enough)?
Stats won’t do it.
Econ in the UK is taught from a very mathematical perspective, unlike the US where many econ programs offer a math-lite option, and only students considering grad school in economics need to take challenging math courses.
If you aren’t a very strong math student then picking a politics/IR/history/sociology course would be much better. HSPS at Cambridge would be a better choice, though it is still a very tough admit and they aren’t keen on admitting American undergrads.
Are you set on the UK regardless, or would you only go there for this one specific dream program? There are a number of US schools with PPE majors based on the Oxford model, with a range of competitiveness.
On your other thread you talk about government as the major at your US options.
Based on that, plus your math, I would second @Twoin18’s suggestion of HSPS at Cambridge instead: https://www.polis.cam.ac.uk/study-at-polis/Prospective/course-details
With politics or IR at other UK universities.
PPE programs that I know of in the US:
Claremont Colleges:
https://catalog.claremontmckenna.edu/preview_entity.php?catoid=17&ent_oid=730&returnto=1494
https://www.pomona.edu/academics/departments/philosophy-politics-economics
http://www.scrippscollege.edu/news/features/the-scripps-experience-beyond-the-elms-the-off-campus-major-at-scripps
UPenn: https://ppe.sas.upenn.edu/
URichmond (PPEL): University of Richmond https://ppel.richmond.edu/index.html
Pitt (Honors College): http://www.honorscollege.pitt.edu/academics/politics-and-philosophy-major
Tulane https://murphy.tulane.edu/undergraduate
Denison: https://denison.edu/academics/philosophy-politics-economics
U of Arizona (PPEL - Honors College) http://www.u.arizona.edu/~ggaus/
Rutgers (minor)https://www.dailytargum.com/article/2019/04/new-interdisciplinary-minor-at-rutgers-combines-philosophy-politics-economics
Many/most of these schools offer an Oxford semester as part of their study abroad program, although the GPA requirement to participate is typically higher than most of the semester-abroad options.
USC and tOSU have recently added the PPE major.
Wikipedia has a pretty comprehensive list of unis/colleges that offer PPE: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy,_politics_and_economics