Year 12 programmes

Does anyone have any programmes they recommend for Year 12s that I can apply to. I’m interested in law and going to the university of Cambridge

Does anyone have any programmes they recommend for Year 12s that I can apply to. I’m interested in law and going to the university of Cambridge

lots! The exploring law course by cambridge starts in january on futurelearn. It’s a free 6-week course that speedruns some of the law degree and it was the most fun thing i ever did.
A bit later down, trinity college hosted law masterclasses for free as well (though i think you do have to be state-school educated to go). St john’s did online webinars for law last year. Check the cambridge undergraduate events website and sign up to their mailing list!
Balliol college oxford did a ‘try before you buy’ day for law. You get to experience a tutorial (4 of you with an academic) and have to complete some pre-reading beforehand. Mine was on constitutional law, and the texts were some chapters from dicey, dworkin and mark elliot’s textbook. They do throw you into the deep end but it was so much fun.
Caius college runs a family law reading group in the summer. It’s a month-long, and consists of weekly discussions with around 6 of you and an academic.
The cambridge law faculty runs an exploring law in-person day as well, with lots of lectures on a variety of things. Super fun.
Note also: Enter essay competitions! St hugh’s college oxford runs the gwnyeth bebb law competition and i think trinity college cambridge also runs one called robert walker. Doughty street chambers also runs a yearly law essay competition.
Feel free to ask if you want to know more about any of these things!
Here are the oxford and cambridge undergraduate events pages:
https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/events-listing
https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/increasing-access/events-calendar

Hey, I have some questions about the balliol college try before you buy day. Do you remmeber the rough outline of the day and how long you did each activity for? And also during the tutorial where you directly asked questions and having conversations as a whole group about the texts?

Hi, I did the Law programme. We were given a list of pre-reading to do before the day (some chapters from Mark Elliot's public law textbook and chapters from Dicey and Dworkin. I was put into the constitutional and public law group (all my reading was around that) because I had to write a little personal statement for the application and I talked a lot about constitutional law. There were 3 others in my group (all of us had talked about constitutional law).
On the day, we had a tour around the college first with a current Law student. We could ask her questions and she gave us a lot of great advice on applications and surviving first year of uni. Then, we got another talk and had lunch in the dining hall at Balliol, which was gorgeous (also free food, yay!). After lunch, we got sent to our tutorial, which was in a very cool room with a PhD student. She discussed the texts with the 4 of us and asked us for our opinions on certain parts (mainly which aspects we found convincing, what were flaws in arguments, etc.). Don't worry, we weren't grilled or asked to recite parts of it, etc. (one person from our group hadn't even done the reading, lol and he was perfectly fine).
After that, we went to a personal statement workshop with an admissions tutor at Balliol (which was very scary) and had a final Q&A. We got sent home with some resources on further reading, application help, etc. Ofc I don't know if it will be the same this year, but hope this is helpful : )

Thank you so much that is very helpful, really appreciate it