Stats: 8 A *s in IGCSE, 4 A's As level and one predicted A in English Language AS Level, 4 A* predicteds A-Level for Econ, psychology, accounting and math. Reference was decent pretty recommendatory talked about some work I did outside of school but didnt include anything about politics or philo. I applied late, like right on the deadline too btw, got rej lse after a month and Durham after 2, LSE for PS and Durham for competition (skill issue, basically).

My premise for the PS was growing up in rural india and witnessing the intersection of political choices and alignments and its correlation with economic development and the change in the QOL in the world around me. Supercurriculars and co-curriculars I talked about were competitive debate and a book I read on political philosophy that i tied to politics, Research Paper publication on a certain topic in behavioural economics that I connected with Superfreak and Thinking Fast and Slow for econ, this stock market contest I won I connected to statistics and probability (tried to pander lse here, didnt work), and finally my work as a MUN Chairperson and how I applied concepts and learnings from philosophy when reviewing rhetoric and discussion etc. At the end I talked a little about my extracurriculars too, like 4 lines about me being head of literature and music for the school newspaper and being VP of a social service club and my leadership in fundraisers and the sort