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LSE MSc Finance only for SUPER ELITE (please read current MSc Finance student) - The Student Room

LSE MSc Finance only for SUPER ELITE (please read current MSc Finance student) The admission rate of this program is 2.8% :eek3: :eek3: :eek3: Is this only for people with GMAT over 760 and undergrad GPA of 3.8? Anyone in the program knows what are the ranges of GMAT score admitted?

Re: LSE MSc Finance only for SUPER ELITE (please read current MSc Finance student) Whats the equivalent of 3.8 GPA with British honours degree?

Re: LSE MSc Finance only for SUPER ELITE (please read current MSc Finance student) Quote: : Whats the equivalent of 3.8 GPA with British honours degree?

Re: LSE MSc Finance only for SUPER ELITE (please read current MSc Finance student) Quote: : Whats the equivalent of 3.8 GPA with British honours degree?

Re: LSE MSc Finance only for SUPER ELITE (please read current MSc Finance student) Sorry let me clarify, 3.5 and above is considered as A+ or 80+ in this case.

Re: LSE MSc Finance only for SUPER ELITE (please read current MSc Finance student) :zomg: So even obtaining a first, your percentage still matters?

:shock: and what is this Distinction?

:ninja:

Re: LSE MSc Finance only for SUPER ELITE (please read current MSc Finance student) 3.5 isn't a first by anyone else's standards- Oxford's courses often specify a 3.70/4 and above as minimum entry, and say this is equivalent to a 'high 2.i or above'.

How many people actually get an offer with a high 2.i prediction however, remains to be seen.

LSE typically is 3.5, which will be a relatively good 2:1.

The standards equivalencies are out there- I believe the 2.i cut-off in the UK is around 3.0/4, but it's not an exact science.

Re: LSE MSc Finance only for SUPER ELITE (please read current MSc Finance student) 1 Attachment(s) I think this will clarify some GPA issues for everyone. UK class CGPA Grade Percentage First 3.1–4.0 A 70–100 Upper second 2.8–3.0 B 60–69 Lower second 2.1–2.7 B– 53–59 Third — 1.1–2.0 C 42–52 Ordinary pass — 1.0–2.0 D 38–41 Fail — 0.0–1.0 F 0–37 so 3.8 is a very high First honour

Re: LSE MSc Finance only for SUPER ELITE (please read current MSc Finance student) Quote: : :zomg: So even obtaining a first, your percentage still matters?

:shock: and what is this Distinction?

:ninja:

Re: LSE MSc Finance only for SUPER ELITE (please read current MSc Finance student) Quote: : I think this will clarify some GPA issues for everyone. UK class CGPA Grade Percentage First 3.1–4.0 A 70–100 Upper second 2.8–3.0 B 60–69 Lower second 2.1–2.7 B– 53–59 Third — 1.1–2.0 C 42–52 Ordinary pass — 1.0–2.0 D 38–41 Fail — 0.0–1.0 F 0–37 so 3.8 is a very high First honour

Re: LSE MSc Finance only for SUPER ELITE (please read current MSc Finance student) Quote: : I think this will clarify some GPA issues for everyone. UK class CGPA Grade Percentage First 3.1–4.0 A 70–100 Upper second 2.8–3.0 B 60–69 Lower second 2.1–2.7 B– 53–59 Third — 1.1–2.0 C 42–52 Ordinary pass — 1.0–2.0 D 38–41 Fail — 0.0–1.0 F 0–37 so 3.8 is a very high First honour

Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...classification I am talking about Canadian GPA system, the equivalent GPA of a US institution will be 3.9

Re: LSE MSc Finance only for SUPER ELITE (please read current MSc Finance student) It's a well known anomaly among post-grad admissions that there is no hard and fast rule for converting one to the other- no such scale exists.

Oxford may well announce you need a 3.7 minimum, or that your 2:1 must be at the very top of the 2:1 band, but that doesn't mean the two are equal.

Candidates are always advised to ask the university in question about their qualifications, as it varies from place to place- they'd be much more interested if you were the best student in your class/university/state than if you had 3.8 or 3.6/4.

Re: LSE MSc Finance only for SUPER ELITE (please read current MSc Finance student) The fact that apart from an very rare group, no-one acheives above 85% as their final degree score and an even slimmer genious minority above 90% should show that the comparison posted between GPA and percentage is flawed.

Re: LSE MSc Finance only for SUPER ELITE (please read current MSc Finance student) What are some of the GMAT scores of students who is in Msc Finance?

Re: LSE MSc Finance only for SUPER ELITE (please read current MSc Finance student) i just googled it and some other people said that it doesnt work.

Notibly one guy was told by his advisors at cambridge that you cant compare the 2 systems, and whatever you do should not try to convert your 1st, 2:1 or even your % average into GPA.

Re: LSE MSc Finance only for SUPER ELITE (please read current MSc Finance student) Quote: : i just googled it and some other people said that it doesnt work.

Notibly one guy was told by his advisors at cambridge that you cant compare the 2 systems, and whatever you do should not try to convert your 1st, 2:1 or even your % average into GPA.

Re: LSE MSc Finance only for SUPER ELITE (please read current MSc Finance student) Quote: : Nonsense.

Exact equivalency is difficult to work out - hardly surprising when you consider that its difficult to compare UK degrees let alone UK / international qualifications - but broad equivalency can and is established by agencies such as UK NARIC and its international counterparts.

Re: LSE MSc Finance only for SUPER ELITE (please read current MSc Finance student) "2:1 is equivalent to a 3.7/3.8 on the US GPA system. A third class UK degree is equivalent to a 3.5 on the US scale." I'm sorry, whoever told you that lied, and if that really is the Canadian system then no wonder Canada doesn't have any prestigious universities. 2.1 would be very loosely equivalent to a 3.4-3.6 GPA in the US, depending on the percent.

A First class degree would be on a sliding scale from 3.7+.

A 2.2 would be a low B/high C, and a 3rd class degree would be a low C to a D.

This is based purely on my own estimations as an American student at LSE. However I can offer certain pieces of evidence to substantiate my numbers.

First of all UK system does not go below 3.0 GPA, you said.

American system goes all the way below 1.0.

So there is clearly no way that all UK degrees are going to be equivalent to 3.0+ on a 4.0 scale, because the methods for assessing failure are different.

Therefore, a more realistic (and convincing) method for calculating equivalency is, as i proposed above, 3.7+ (A- to A+) = 1st, 3.4-3.6 (B to B+) = 2.1, 2.7-3.3 (C+ to B-) = 2.2, 1.9 -2.6 (D to C) = 3rd.

A "D" is the lowest passing grade in the American system, while in the British system a 3rd is lowest grade before failure...self-evident. Secondly, something like 50% or more of students in most courses obtain 2.1's.

That roughly corresponds to the amount of American students who get B's - in most non-science classes in US colleges, probably half the class ends up with some kind of B, whether a low or high one (science classes are skewed: more kids fail, but more also get high A's). There is no possible way that 50% of British students would get a 3.7+ GPA at an American school (other than Harvard, which is famous for grade inflation, haaaa!).

Sorry, not even LSE students are that capable. A 3.7+ is a hell of a feat for anybody.

I had a 3.7-something at the end of my sophomore year and it took a godawfully large amount of work.

Most of my grades were A-, a few B+'s and all A's last term.

I never got a grade lower than B+.

Re: LSE MSc Finance only for SUPER ELITE (please read current MSc Finance student) "Sorry let me clarify, 3.5 and above is considered as A+ or 80+ in this case" extremely false.

A 3.5 is considered a solid GPA, but unless it came from HYP it's not going to get you admission to super-competitive grad schools in lucrative fields.

I see what your reasoning is, but it's wrong;

See my above post.




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