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Can I get into KCL for law?

My gcses are trash…
Combined science 5 6
english lit 7
eng lang 6
maths 5 (1 mark off a 6 ugh)
religious studies 5
history 5
computer science 6
french 6

Currently doing Alevel Eng lit and Religious studies with a business btec lvl3
Do I have a chance if I work hard for my predicted grades and hopefully well on the LNAT??? I really would love to do law here

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Reply 1

bibachu

Original post by jdieoskisis

My gcses are trash…
Combined science 5 6
english lit 7
eng lang 6
maths 5 (1 mark off a 6 ugh)
religious studies 5
history 5
computer science 6
french 6
Currently doing Alevel Eng lit and Religious studies with a business btec lvl3
Do I have a chance if I work hard for my predicted grades and hopefully well on the LNAT??? I really would love to do law here

First of all your GCSEs aren't "trash", they are around the average, but I understand that applying to KCL may make you think these are not good results. It is an incredibly competitive school and their law course is even more competitive. Since they don't actually state any requirements for GCSEs in their Law LLB course, I'm assuming that they don't actually take them into consideration that heavily, so if I were you, I wouldn't worry about your GCSE grades. Your main challenge here is the LNAT and your A levels. The cut off score this year for home students was 30 for the LNAT and this is a very hard score to get. The cut off score for international students was 27, so people have speculated that this was in order to bring in more revenue, as international students pay higher fees and generally prefer to come to London than go elsewhere for university. If you work hard at the LNAT, I'm sure you could score above 30. One of the biggest reasons I've personally decided not to apply to KCL was the LNAT, as I was not confident that I could score above 30, even through a lengthy study period. Your other issue would be your qualifications. You would need to check if KCL would accept mixed qualifications, as your BTEC in Business may be an issue - again I'm not sure so please check in case they don't accept it. You would need to have high predicted grades (A*AA is the standard A level requirement and AAB is the contextual requirement), so if you think these are grades you can achieve or will get predicted, I would definitely at least try and apply.

Good luck in your journey and I hope everything works out!

Reply 2

jdieoskisis

Original post by bibachu

First of all your GCSEs aren't "trash", they are around the average, but I understand that applying to KCL may make you think these are not good results. It is an incredibly competitive school and their law course is even more competitive. Since they don't actually state any requirements for GCSEs in their Law LLB course, I'm assuming that they don't actually take them into consideration that heavily, so if I were you, I wouldn't worry about your GCSE grades. Your main challenge here is the LNAT and your A levels. The cut off score this year for home students was 30 for the LNAT and this is a very hard score to get. The cut off score for international students was 27, so people have speculated that this was in order to bring in more revenue, as international students pay higher fees and generally prefer to come to London than go elsewhere for university. If you work hard at the LNAT, I'm sure you could score above 30. One of the biggest reasons I've personally decided not to apply to KCL was the LNAT, as I was not confident that I could score above 30, even through a lengthy study period. Your other issue would be your qualifications. You would need to check if KCL would accept mixed qualifications, as your BTEC in Business may be an issue - again I'm not sure so please check in case they don't accept it. You would need to have high predicted grades (A*AA is the standard A level requirement and AAB is the contextual requirement), so if you think these are grades you can achieve or will get predicted, I would definitely at least try and apply.
Good luck in your journey and I hope everything works out!