Baoz, your friend must be really really outstanding to be grabbed by banks even before he graduated!!!!!! When did he graduate? Is he still working now? Mind to tell which bank is he working in??

Warwick MORSE is indeed quite a highly regarded course in UK. And to get into a four year course of Warwick MMORSE, you need at least a second upper class from your second year. Even if you are only doing 3 years MORSE, you can still gain about 3 to 4 exemptions from the professional papers, if you are doing exceptionally well in certain exams in MORSE that entitled exemptions. Warwick do not have generous scholarship though. There are only two scholarships relevant to us, namely the Malaysian scholarship, and MORSE scholarship.

oh ya! LSE is very generous in terms of financial bursary btw. haha! And it has a very huge presence of  international student presence there, so it is not right to say that they are not open to international students. Well, which UK universities would be not open to international students?? Because we are the cash cow to them, as simple as that.

Honestly speaking, I would advise people to go to universities with better rankings although the course you want to do there might be second to another university whose ranking are not that great, but appears top in the course you want to do. Some employers in UK only targeted certain universities when it comes to recruitment. So my thinking is that even though if you are doing a course which is the top one in UK, but unfortunately in a not really prominent uni, you are going to miss out alot on the career fairs opportunities etc.

If you really want to go UK uni, especially certain uni like LSE (not only actuarial science course), ask the college education counsellors what modules are more preferable by LSE in terms of getting in. During my year of application, LSE asked for 3As as entry requirement, but they totally disregarded the "A" in Accounting. The 3As have to come from another three modules you do, not including Accounting. I am not sure how the entry requirement are like now.. but nor harm checking this out. Whats the point of doing Accounting if you want to go LSE, but LSE did not consider the A in this subject at all?!

There's a MORSE scholarship? 
LSE gave me a 3A-excluding-economics offer for Actuarial Science, haha. They don't like Accounting because it's a non-traditional subject and apparently it's easy to get an A or A* for that ... so most top unis in the UK will disregard that subject.

Planning to do MMORSE!

EDIT: Just realised I replied to a 3-year-old post 

Hey everyone, do any of you know the percentage of undergraduates from lse getting a fellowship in actuarial science? Or if you have any comments on the difficulty of passing the exams in uk, please do tell thanks!! 

I know that the 3 years course MORSE offers at most 4 CT papers exemptions. Can I take 2 or 3 more extra CT papers by my own during my studies if I decided I really wanna be an actuary?

Your credibility is severely undermined by the fact that there's no such thing known as an "actuarist".

I lol'ed at that one. 

Still prefer Actuarial Scientist. Makes pricing premiums sound so hardcore.

Your credibility is severely undermined by the fact that there's no such thing known as an "actuarist".

My english isnt exactly the best and i've been using the term 'actuarist' even though its actuary since my a levels. Other people I know say 'actuarist' too, its wrong, but its just something people get on with. I dont understand what you mean by credibility, what i've written in all my posts is correct. Including the other post about mathematical finance being in an actuarial science course. Like Ive mentioned in my other post, you learn stochastic differential equations, black scholes model, ito's lemma/ito's calculus, martingales, markov chains etc. Isnt that mathematical finance??

My english isnt exactly the best and i've been using the term 'actuarist' even though its actuary since my a levels. Other people I know say 'actuarist' too, its wrong, but its just something people get on with. I dont understand what you mean by credibility, what i've written in all my posts is correct. Including the other post about mathematical finance being in an actuarial science course. Like Ive mentioned in my other post, you learn stochastic differential equations, black scholes model, ito's lemma/ito's calculus, martingales, markov chains etc. Isnt that mathematical finance??