LSE law 2017

Hi guys, I am currently on a gap year at the law firm Pinsent masons and I got 5A* 5A and 1B at GCSEs. As level I got abbc and to be perfectly honest I got lazy at a2 and only received Bbb despite an A*AA prediction.
I have spoken to the law department who said basically I can apply but can't be guaranteed an offer obviously, and that my application would be at a disadvantage but I could receive an offer if i were to get the grades this year after resitting and I had an exceptional personal statement.

I have read plenty of books on law and attended many lectures from Oxford professors, as well as my gap year (where I am essentially doing the work of a trainee solicitor in the Leeds office) and I travelled to Ghana last year volunteering at an orphanage and helped build a school.

Just want to ask if anyone thinks it would even be worth applying with my grades? Or would it be a waste of time despite all my extra curriculars ?

Thank you in advance to anyone who gives me any help and advice 😊😊😊

Hi there, just wanna share my thoughts here with you, and hope you will find it useful.

I think the advice given by the law department is very helpful. Needless to say that LSE places a lot of emphasis on the personal statement, it also seeks for academically able applicants. Although A*AA is the requirement set by the school, bear in mind that it is also the minimum entry requirement for the school to further consider you in the pool.

A better solution is to consider the probability of you scoring an A*AA upon resitting. In other words, you will need to consider how strong are your A and B grades in AS level to achieve an overall A*AA.

All in all, it's quite challenging for you to meet the entry requirements. Maybe you can consider other good schools such as Warwick with an entry requirement of AAA. Nevertheless, you should also try to give in your best for A2 resit. As every cloud has a silver lining, who knows that you might make it to LSE it eventually?

This is my overall view and I hope you don't find it offensive. Best of luck mate!

Hi, I just realised that I forgot to include my as resits in my as grades so in as I actually got AAAC aha

I wasn't too far of the A's in my subjects with the biggest difference being 10 ums of an A. I do really want to apply but am not hopeful, I am also applying to Warwick at the moment and I am also thinking Manchester.

Thank you for your advice it was very helpful! And I didn't find it offensive lol I just was wondering as I didn't want to apply if I didn't have a snowballs chance in hell! Now I'm just confused as f*** as even lse said if you have an exceptional ps it would definitely be taken into account

Currently studying: History, English Literature, Media Studies

GCSE grades: AAAAABBCCC (with one of the c's being in maths, it's too late to retake now and I hope it won't have an impact..)
AS Levels: I have only done one AS as all my other subjects are now linear and I got a high A grade (media studies)

Haven't been told our predicted grades yet, but I'm worried they may be low despite me working very hard and hopefully expecting to get an A*AA

I feel as if I am too average, will that one bad GCSE grade have an impact if I want to study law?

Congrats on the amazing grades

Don't worry about the P.S.. The only important thing I'd suggest putting on there is work experience and what you learnt from it. My statement was very philosophical and largely touched upon my thoughts on political theory, and it wasn't held against me afaik. The important thing is having good "hard" evidence of how good you are - and that could be anything from doing an EPQ to independent research/reading to work experience.

Congrats on the amazing grades
I agree with you on the high entry standards - it's similar for Greece as well (where I'm from), where they ask you for a very high end-of-year grade (usually 19,000/20,000). I honestly think that the disparity is incredibly unfair towards international students. This perhaps isn't a disparity as large as that of Cambridge, which feels comfortable giving A*AA offers for A-level candidates and 41 (7,7,6) offers to IB students, but still.

Don't worry about the P.S.. The only important thing I'd suggest putting on there is work experience and what you learnt from it. My statement was very philosophical and largely touched upon my thoughts on political theory, and it wasn't held against me afaik. The important thing is having good "hard" evidence of how good you are - and that could be anything from doing an EPQ to independent research/reading to work experience.

Hi everyone I have a question, I recently submitted my Law Application nearly 2 weeks ago (on Friday) I got an email acknowledging my application but I haven't received anything regarding initial assessment etc does this mean I am likely to get rejected? Thanks.

Hi everyone I have a question, I recently submitted my Law Application nearly 2 weeks ago (on Friday) I got an email acknowledging my application but I haven't received anything regarding initial assessment etc does this mean I am likely to get rejected? Thanks.

They issue the initial review letter (2 weeks) according to batches. Maybe your application is classified as the second batch, so perhaps you should wait for another 2 weeks. If my guess isn't wrong, the first batch of rejection should fall on this Thursday by virtue of the failure to pass the initial assessment.

Will they email everyone at once? As in, both those who passed the initial assessment and those who didn't?