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Hi everyone. My name is Rhodah,
one of the student content creators and today I'm going to talk about the next steps to take after
receiving a conditional offer to study at the LSE. And I will give you a little bit of my personal
experience as an international graduate student at the LSE.
First of all, I'd like to say congratulations on receiving a conditional offer to study at the LSE.
That in itself is a great achievement and you should take time to celebrate that win.
Secondly, the next thing to do after receiving the offer,
aside from celebrating uh the achievement, is to look into accepting the offer.
It's time to set the ball rolling. This is by for instance, considering
when you're going to accept your offer and even submit the financial undertaking form.
In the offer email you'll notice that you are required to respond to that offer email and
to submit the financial undertaking form within six weeks of receipt.
You will not lose your offer in the event that you are unable to respond within the six week period.
However, it is advisable that you do so to also enable LSE
to process your details and all your information in good time.
The third thing is to start looking into fulfilling the conditions under your offer.
Most conditional offers are usually issued based on degree conditions,
language conditions, uh attendance of a pre-sessional or introductory course condition
and the attendance of a summer school condition. In my case, my offer was issued subject to the
fulfilment of the degree condition and the English language condition.
So for the degree condition, I was required to send original
or certified photocopies of my degree and diploma certificates and the transcripts.
So for this purpose I reached out to my former institutions of higher learning and requested them
to directly send these documents to the LSE. So, you will be provided with an email which
you can share additional documentation to, and so that's what I shared with my
former institutions and requested them to directly send these documents to LSE.
For the English language condition I had to demonstrate my English proficiency and so
for this I decided to sit for the IELTS exam. And so you can opt to sit for any other exam
such as the TOEFL and what not. The LSE website gives you a list
of the possible English tests that you may sit for based on your convenience.
But what you need to note is that for each test there is a specific pass mark, and the pass mark
also varies from one course to the other. And so you need to adhere to that
and look at what what the pass mark is for your specific Masters' programme.
So after receiving my IELTS results I uploaded um my certificate and the results
via the 'How do I...' forms on the LSE website. And that's what I did to fulfill my conditions.
So the fourth thing that you need to do is to read the resources that LSE has provided you with.
This starts with the offer email in itself which lists your conditions, also the offer
email itself contains links that will be useful to you and this would be links to resources such
as the offer pack, which again is an important document to read through as a prospective student.
It will help you even understand what you need to do in order to fulfill your conditions,
it will give you tips on accommodation, it will identify the fee classification,
the deadlines for the fee payments, it will also specify things such
as the term dates so be sure to have a look at that. It's very useful for you.
Other than that, please ensure that you look at websites such as the Admissions
Enquiries System as well as um the FAQs website. You'll find that 99% of the concerns that you
may have, have been addressed by these resources. So be sure to look at them before sending a query.
In the event that any of your concerns have not been addressed by these resources,
you can feel free to reach out to the admissions enquiries team.
They will respond to you as soon as they can,
so please try as much as possible not to send multiple emails to them.
Most prospective students receive a confirmation on their offers during the summer and so there
may be a bit of a delay in receiving a confirmation from the admissions team.
But please do not worry, please do not panic, just ensure that you have fulfilled the conditions
according to the guidelines that have been provided in the various resources and just wait.
Keep looking at your LSE For You account to see if it has been updated,
to demonstrate that your conditions have been fulfilled.
And again, just wait to hear back from them. They will get back to you as soon as possible.
The other thing is that, be on the lookout for newsletters that may be sent
by either your graduate department and/or the admissions team.
So, these could have information that could be useful for you and any updates
that could also be useful for you. So please be sure to look at them
and check your emails now and again.
Finally, I hope that you found this video useful.
And the LSE community looks forward to welcoming you at the beginning of your session.
And thank you for watching!