I'm currently in high school in Sweden with less than a year left until I apply to college.
I haven't done anything significant or participated in any typically meritorious extracurricular activities but I'll still likely get into Stockholm School of Economics as the application process in Sweden is solely based on one's grade average.
With that being said I've gotten the impression that SSE is a tier-2 school and so I'm not really sure on what to do as I want to put myself into the best academic position I possibly can.
My first option is just to accept my faith and get my Bsc from SSC and then pursue my Msc elsewhere.
The biggest advantage to this is that, if I have the capability, I'll be able to double my degrees by going to the Royale Institute of Technology and study engineering physics and specialize in financial mathematics. The aforementioned combo has been done before by others but it's quite rare and obviously challenging so I'm not sure if it's something I'm able to do mentally.
My second option is to apply to tier-1 schools such as LSE or Oxford but I'm not sure of how good my chances are.
The only things I've really done are getting good grades and investing/trading with some profit but I strongly doubt that any school would see the latter as a merit. Previously I've thought about starting a website where I discuss politics and philosophy but decided against it as I think it's slightly arrogant. Now that I'm considering applying to colleges abroad it might be worth making the site after all.
- What would you do? Why?
- Do I have any chance of getting into LSE/Oxford? A*AA/AAA = 18.5/20 according to LSE. I'm probably going to land at 19.3-19.6/20 which is considerably higher
- Would creating a blog/website be to any benefit of my applications assuming that it's comprised of original and well-researched subjects?
Excuse grammatical errors and potential typos.