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Hi everyone! I'm in my 2nd year of National Service now and will soon have to trouble over university woes.

I've a place at NUS Law 2011 and UCL Law 2011. Which would be a better choice to take up Law at? NUS Law seems to be reputable 'enough', while UCL Law has (hearsay) lower admission standards from international applicants. Is UCL Law or NUS Law harder to get in to? It's queer having people comment on how I go to the UK to study Law because I'm not qualified to do so in NUS. & that's before they knew I also had a place at NUS Law. Judging by the local consensus on NUS Law's competitiveness, it imprints somewhat an impression UK legal education is far easier to obtain entry to, as opposed to local legal education.

I kinda took KCL out of the equation although they offered me Law there too. That's reasonable, right?

Also, I'm contemplating letting go of my UCL Law place to apply for Cambridge this year. I got rejected from Oxford last year (presumably due to my interview, which was awful I tell you. I screw'd up.). Even if I do retake my LNAT and apply to UCL in addition to Cambridge again, there's a risk I might not get into UCL, even though I did get in before. Any advice from anyone here?

No.. just A level grades

anyone who has a place in KCL going for the Offer Holders' Reception on 8th march?

it apears that UK unis don't care much about that. has anyone ever seen an offer with conditions indicated in UCAS score?

Of course none of the unis make their offers in UCAS points to international students like ourselves. Actually Im more concerned with employment at the moment - it seems that most of the reputable firms have a minimum cutoff of 320 UCAS points for their online apps, and according to the UK system, they only take into account the A2 subjects since only they are taken in the final exams, whereas we SGs take so many more other redundant subjects, hence the concern whether our other subjects will affect the scoring. 320 UCAS is abt AAB.

im sure they will understand that foreigners have different systems..if not come back sg work lor...

btw did u get offer from kcl? if u did im gona shoot myself for not applying to kcl

Haha, the thing is that there is a vast number of possible internships, job opportunities there, that ill shoot myself if i had not gone there prepared, with those as my intentions. ill eventually return to sg for marriage eventually.

KCL is still deliberating hard over my apps.

wahts ur next choiceafter kcl? warwick or bristol?

Hope this helps. Unconditional offer from king's - verification of the A levels is required. Ha. Going to firm warwick though.

Hope this helps. Unconditional offer from king's - verification of the A levels is required. Ha. Going to firm warwick though.

just got conditional from warwick...

why not king's for you? isn't king's better than warwick? correct me if i'm wrong. =)

Haha, I can understand where you're coming from by making a statement that King's>warwick for law on basis that warwick's law is not as established as king's, but if you're talking about the quality of the university as a whole based on the rankings, then warwick has an edge.

Besides, it's impossible to live in london without blowing a hole in my parent's pocket.

Hope this helps. Unconditional offer from king's - verification of the A levels is required. Ha. Going to firm warwick though.

that's cool man i'm gonna firm warwick too! still need to get my stuff verified though haha.. will you be going for the warwick q&a session on the 23rd of march?

Hi, may I know the reason for choosing Warwick over Bristol? Hope you don't mind sharing Thanks!