Universities For Law? (aiming for MC law firm)

I’m the same position as you sort of, I only got 6 3A’s, 1B a C* and a C ( I’m from Northern Ireland so we don’t have numbers ) and I also passed two btechs but I doubt unis care. I’m aiming for high predicted grades and I’m going to apply to Bristol, maybe Durham, Liverpool, Exeter and Nottingham

Don't let anyone put you off. Nothing about your GCSE results says you can't make a strong university for law. Especially if you did no work and didn't go to classes. Once you have strong predictions - and especially have strong achieved grades you can get in.

Every year on these boards and others we read of people who did just that. Far more could if they understood that they just had to give it a go and see if they could progress.

Ok so due to a lack of focus and attendance i only achieved 5 C grades at GCSE (maths and English included) however im now taking A levels and am being much more productive attending and revising etc and am looking at pursuing a career in law.

The ultimate goal is to work for a MC law firm and obviously to maximise my chance of this i would want to attend a respected RG university, so firstly which universities would you recommend that are respected in law and don't place much emphasis on GCSES (i am expecting AAA or AAB) i am also doing a Law based EPQ if that is of relevance and how do you recommend i build a good personal statement, pretty loaded question any help is greatly appreciated.

Had a look and couldn't fine a thread for this so thought id ask, I qualify for a contextual offer so my A level entry requirements are reduced by Two, If i was to meet the standard entry requirements would they perceive me to have outperformed someone without a contextual offer who got the same?

Similar to me here pal I only have 5 GCSEs and want to do law at Manchester. What a levels are you doing and what do you plan to do for your epq?

I am doing History, Sociology and Philosophy and ethics and for my EPQ im doing one revolving around
claiming insanity to avoid legal punishment

You in first year?

Yes

You going do your epq in the summer holidays then and what are your predicted grades

Due to my lack of attendance they haven't given me any yet as nobody really knows how im going to perform, I had 20% attendance for 3 years and somehow passed all exams i took so id like to think if i dedicate myself to my studies AAA or AAB is not unreasonable

And so far our school hasn't had time to do the EPQ meetings and stuff where we go over it so ill start it immediately once we go over the structure and what needs to be included

Your target grades will probably be D’s tbh pal but they should go up at end of year ready for uni application.

When do you have to tell your college you want to do an epq?

our college has said till end of this month but it might differ for you, also we have alot of assessments at our school which our teachers mark and give us a grade, most the time i get a grade in the higher end of the class would this result in better Predicted grades or will they go solely of gcse grades

our college has said till end of this month but it might differ for you, also we have alot of assessments at our school which our teachers mark and give us a grade, most the time i get a grade in the higher end of the class would this result in better Predicted grades or will they go solely of gcse grades

Had a look and couldn't fine a thread for this so thought id ask, I qualify for a contextual offer so my A level entry requirements are reduced by Two, If i was to meet the standard entry requirements would they perceive me to have outperformed someone without a contextual offer who got the same?

Why are you so dead-set on MC anyway? You shouldn't only look at 5 firms because you think they're the be-all and end-all. Look at the ones that focus on practice areas you're interested in.

Who are 'they'? Law firms? universities?