Yeah my worry was that I don’t know whether I wanted to go into stats stuff or policy, so I thought that if I just did Maths at Oxford I wouldn’t gain enough information about which is a better fit for me to be able to make the switch into economics, which is possible but requires a commitment.
Having reconsidered, I think there are likely to be ways of learning which route I want to go down even if I don’t go to a uni where I can study both, and the costs of doing this are likely to be outweighed by the benefit of attending Oxford, especially considering the responses this post has gotten.
(This means I am now unlikely to apply to American universities since I am able to attend a top uni in the UK, and the probability of getting accepted to an American one AND not Oxford is even lower [especially since the American assessment criteria suit me worse])
Yeah my worry was that I don’t know whether I wanted to go into stats stuff or policy, so I thought that if I just did Maths at Oxford I wouldn’t gain enough information about which is a better fit for me to be able to make the switch into economics, which is possible but requires a commitment.
Having reconsidered, I think there are likely to be ways of learning which route I want to go down even if I don’t go to a uni where I can study both, and the costs of doing this are likely to be outweighed by the benefit of attending Oxford, especially considering the responses this post has gotten.
(This means I am now unlikely to apply to American universities since I am able to attend a top uni in the UK, and the probability of getting accepted to an American one AND not Oxford is even lower [especially since the American assessment criteria suit me worse])