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Rejected - any point in emailing and begging for an offer??

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Reply 20

Itchynscratchy

arkbar

Thank god I don't work in an admissions office.

Durham University

Durham

Reply 21

dobbs

hellohello12

The question you need to ask yourself and maybe i need to ask myself is do i want to put my life on hold for a year.

What the hell?!

Do you honestly think that when people take Gap Years they "put their life on hold for a year"???? :confused:

I think you'll find that actually a Gap Year (if done properly - i.e. not sitting around the house watching TV all year) can add significant enhancements to your life in many ways, rather than getting in the way of it!

I know for a fact that in my Gap Year I gained:
-Experience of working full time
-Experience of working in a supervisory role
-Independence - travelled to USA alone
-Experience of saving/budgeting - had to save to go to USA
-Experience of working with kids - in USA
-Experience of other cultures - USA
-The time to reassess what I was going to do with my life (previously I wanted big-money career....afterwards I wanted to work with kids)
-The time to "mature". I was a million times more mature after my Gap Year than I was before!
-Friends! Many many friends in USA!

Please don't see a Gap Year as putting your life on hold, but rather as an opportunity to do something to "further yourself"....get a bit of non-academic REAL LIFE experience which you can't get from reading a book or sitting in a lecture theatre. If you really want to take a year out and reapply, there is NOTHING AT ALL stopping you! :smile:

Reply 22

Danny_777

hellohello12

Without fully divulging its contents approximately 10x as many straight A grade applicants as places and about 15x as many appilcants as places.

Is that for Durham Law???

Reply 23

Piggsil

hellohello12

Well yes it depends what you want to do - I want to go to university!

Anyway, having e-mailed to assess the value of reapllying I don't think its particularly worth it:

Without fully divulging its contents approximately 10x as many straight A grade applicants as places and about 15x as many appilcants as places.

You could be the best lawyer in the world but it must be next to impossible to decide between so many 'perfect' applicants. Its not their fault!

Kev will come and elaborate on this later, I'm sure but as far as I'm aware, he was set to go to university, but didn't get the grades.

Reply 24

Teehar

Becca

Kev will come and elaborate on this later, I'm sure but as far as I'm aware, he was set to go to university, but didn't get the grades.

it seems to be true, I remember in our opening lecture they did some sort of ego boost about how lucky we were considering thousands applied for a place and only 130 odd got in.

Reply 25

Kingers

go to another one of the unis, as someone else said, people would kill for any of those unis. Theres tons of applicants for law at durham, and i guess you just were'nt good enough. deal with it

Reply 26

spunkym0nkey

It might be true ur not good enough for law at durham. Saying that there's again no harm in trying for an offer. It shows u want that uni and that course possibly more than someone else they might have given an offer to and u have to nothing to loose. Although its worth ringing b4 u do decide whether u still want to go there (to b honest durham r peeving me off at the mo and some the unis u got would look mighty tempting I had choice).

Reply 27

thats_my_poison

so they replied and said they're not going to reconsider my application and i was rejected based on my lnat. im absolutely gutted and now im really scared im not going to get offers from bristol/kcl who were my insurance.

Reply 28

loggins

With your GCSE's and AS levels I'd be surprised if you needed an insurance, just work hard this year and I'm sure you'll be fine. LSE and Warwick are as good (if not better) than Bristol and KCL for law so there's no reason to think they wont give you offers.
Best of luck!

Reply 29

dobbs

Becca

Kev will come and elaborate on this later, I'm sure but as far as I'm aware, he was set to go to university, but didn't get the grades.

It's true

I was predicted AAB at A-level

I got accepted at Durham for Geography (offer ABB).

Got BBC. Poo. Took a Gap Year.

Reapplied. Predicted ABB this time.

Offer, again, ABB

This time got ABB...went to Durham....yay! :smile:

....It's not all about perfectly amazing grades. I didn't do anything extra really...let's have a look...I did Duke of Edinburgh (Silver! lol), I did a Sports Leader Course, and I worked in a supermarket!! That's all! :redface:

As I've said a million times, if you know how to "work" a Personal Statement to your advantage you can get in. It is not about a list of a million things you've done. It's about how you've made the most of what you DO do :smile:

Reply 30

Reading Room

Gosh I didn't realise just HOW vital the LNAT was...

And why doesn't LSE (v v good uni, etc) place as much emphasis on it, especially because they don't interview?

Reply 31

thats_my_poison

^^i don't know but it seems so unfair that ive worked my butt off the last couple of years but a 2hr test is still more important

Reply 32

Danny_777

sucker_love

^^i don't know but it seems so unfair that ive worked my butt off the last couple of years but a 2hr test is still more important

Yup, that's the worst thing about it all.

Reply 33

Oldmannow

sorry but dont get your hopes up about KCL.

a friend i know got same GCSE grades as you (but less AS grades ..like 5 ...all As though) and she got rejected from KCL even though Cambridge and LSE gave her offers.

she got 12 or so on her lnat.

Reply 34

Piggsil

Zomg, that must mean that KCL reject Oxbridge dead certs!!! :eek4:

Reply 35

Oldmannow

youre an oxbridge dead cert if you get 12lant?

you do realise that even with 12 lnat oxbridge interview you (or atleast it did my friend..and they realised she was worthy of a place)..KCL doesnt interview...