decent academic background can be accepted. I want to go to LSE but this doubt is seriously making me think otherwise, in that I get better value for money somewhere else. Thanks in advance. I had the same doubt. All my firends applying for postgrads there this year were offered places. However, I had lunch with a colleague the other day who said she got a rejection for a similar management master's to mine, and she seemed to have a better chance than me (posh Grande Ecole education, international internships, very similar current job, several languages). So who knows. But I also think the people on here are likely to be the ones who will get offers, on average, so it's definitely not the whole story. Well, you also get people saying all coursework masters are just cash cows for universities irrespective of where you go. So if you believe this (why should it be true of LSE but not anywhere else?) you may as well go to one with a better reputation (incidentally have seen a few people on TSR rejected from that degree, but it is clearly not as competitive as some of the programs for which LSE is better-known. I should add I generally don't agree with those views, and that if you like the uni, like the structure of the degree and think it will help you professionally or personally, then you should do it. I agree with sj27 (apparently I recently gave you rep so