After you have applied

The School makes admissions decisions based solely on the information presented on the UCAS application form. We will not consider any additional academic references, examples of academic work, testimonials or other supporting documents.

Make a note of your LSE ID number and use it when checking your status and in all correspondence with the Undergraduate Admissions office, including by telephone.

Important note - you should also inform us of any changes to your contact details, qualification information or subject combination immediately. Find out how to contact us.

As soon as a final decision has been made on your application, we will notify you via UCAS. To see the the current status of your application, sign in to your UCAS Hub – this information is linked directly to our computer system. What you see here is the same information we hold centrally. If you need to update your personal details, such as your address, telephone number or email address, you should update your details via UCAS and contact Undergraduate Admissions to notify us of the change.
Access to LSE Public Accounts/ LSE For You (LFY) are not available for Undergraduate applicants and will only be applicable to Undergraduate offer holders who make us their firm choice.

You can find out how to contact the Undergraduate Admissions team here.

Please note: all of your personal data is kept confidential, and we are not able to discuss your application with any third party unless specifically nominated by you on your UCAS application form.

LSE receives a high volume of applications each year for a limited number of spaces. The level of competition and high attainment level of our applicants means that achieving, or being predicted to achieve, our usual standard offer grades does not guarantee that an offer of admission will be made. Every year we unfortunately have to disappoint many applicants. 

Each application is carefully considered by our Undergraduate Selectors before a final decision is made, taking into account the full range of information presented on the UCAS form. This includes the Personal Statement, academic achievement (both achieved and predicted grades), subject combinations, contextual information and the UCAS reference. 

All decisions on on-time applications (those received by 31 January 2024) will be made and communicated no later than 16 May 2024.

If there are circumstances or events that may have an impact on decision processing times, we will inform students by email. 

Any offer of admission that the School issues to you is only valid for the specific programme for which it is made. Where an applicant has applied to multiple programmes, they will only be eligible to receive one offer. It is not LSE policy to make more than one offer to applicants in the same admissions cycle.

You can only request a programme substitution if one of the following conditions applies:

• you have not yet received a decision from LSE (in which case it is a relatively straightforward substitution of one programme for another)
• you have been unsuccessful on the programme to which you originally applied BUT you have not used all your five programme choices (in which case it is an additional programme choice)

Please note, however, that it is not possible for us to re-consider your application in the same admissions cycle for a programme for which you have already been unsuccessful that year. Neither is it possible for you to make a substitution if you have already been rejected by LSE for your original programme choice and you have used all your five programme choices.

If you satisfy the above criteria you should submit your application via UCAS before 31 January 2024 and your application will be considered alongside all other on-time applicants for that programme. If your request to change programme arrives after 31 January 2024, your application will be classed as late. Once this programme change has been made and a decision issued, you cannot then revert back again to your original choice.

Applicants who apply for entry in the coming year but who want to amend their application to deferred entry may request this change via UCAS or LSE up to 31 January 2024. If you defer your intended start date via UCAS, please also inform the Undergraduate Admissions team.

After 31 January 2024, requests to defer can only be made to LSE. If you do wish to defer after the deadline, please contact the Undergraduate Admissions Office. 

If you wish to defer your entry, you will need to submit a request to the Undergraduate Admissions Office by the deadline.

It is important that you let us know about any relevant extenuating circumstances prior to us making a decision on your application, as it helps us to Selector to assess your performance in the context of any adverse circumstances you have faced. If extenuating circumstances have affected your previous grades, or may affect your forthcoming examinations, please follow the instrcutions found here.