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Urgent! What unis for law?

I'm a gap year student with 3 A* grades. Planning to apply to Durham, Bristol and Warwick. Help me with my last 2 choices! I'm thinking UCL, and then for my last choice I can't decide between KCL, LSE, York. Not sure how I'll do in the LNAT, so do I need to stay safe with York? Or do my grades allow me to be more ambitious?
Original post by rubytheok
I'm a gap year student with 3 A* grades. Planning to apply to Durham, Bristol and Warwick. Help me with my last 2 choices! I'm thinking UCL, and then for my last choice I can't decide between KCL, LSE, York. Not sure how I'll do in the LNAT, so do I need to stay safe with York? Or do my grades allow me to be more ambitious?

Considering how competitive these universities are, it would be a good idea to potentially have a safer choice university like York that requires lower grades than A*AA and does not use the LNAT as part of the admissions process, to maximise your chances of obtaining offers in the event that your LNAT doesn’t go well. Having four universities that use the LNAT as part of their admissions process + Warwick would be quite risky, despite applying with 3 A*s achieved. The decision should ultimately be down to what you want/need out of university and which universities would suit your needs best.
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Original post by bibachu
Considering how competitive these universities are, it would be a good idea to potentially have a safer choice university like York that requires lower grades than A*AA and does not use the LNAT as part of the admissions process, to maximise your chances of obtaining offers in the event that your LNAT doesn’t go well. Having four universities that use the LNAT as part of their admissions process + Warwick would be quite risky, despite applying with 3 A*s achieved. The decision should ultimately be down to what you want/need out of university and which universities would suit your needs best.

Thanks so much for the reply! Does anyone know the proportions of international students in KCL, LSE and UCL? I get the vibe that UCL has loads of students from China but KCL has less? I could be wrong.
Original post by rubytheok
Thanks so much for the reply! Does anyone know the proportions of international students in KCL, LSE and UCL? I get the vibe that UCL has loads of students from China but KCL has less? I could be wrong.

I don’t know the exact statistics, but I believe UCL are somewhere around 50% international, whereas LSE and KCL are around 30% - 40%, with KCL having the lowest proportion of international students out of all three. As top universities in London, naturally, they attract a plethora of international students, particularly from East, South East and South Asia, but also Europe and North America. The Chinese student population at UCL likely is larger than it is at KCL, but you may need to check the exact statistics for that.

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