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I fear a UCL rejection

I recently got rejected from Oxford Law pre interview with the stats 999777765 and A*A*A + A (literature, history, maths + epq respectively) and I really want to go to UCL but I fear a rejection maybe because of LNAT I’m not sure
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Original post by Ghost1619
I recently got rejected from Oxford Law pre interview with the stats 999777765 and A*A*A + A (literature, history, maths + epq respectively) and I really want to go to UCL but I fear a rejection maybe because of LNAT I’m not sure

Those are good stats, where else did you apply and have you gotten responses from them?
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Those are good stats, where else did you apply and have you gotten responses from them?


I’ve applied to Warwick Nottingham and Bristol, I got an offer from Nottingham
same here TAT i got rejected from oxford and am now praying that i get into ucl/lse but then my predicted grades should be find so im stressing bout my lnat results a lot 😭
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Original post by Ghost1619
I recently got rejected from Oxford Law pre interview with the stats 999777765 and A*A*A + A (literature, history, maths + epq respectively) and I really want to go to UCL but I fear a rejection maybe because of LNAT I’m not sure



Original post by ghosttlilyyy
same here TAT i got rejected from oxford and am now praying that i get into ucl/lse but then my predicted grades should be find so im stressing bout my lnat results a lot 😭

I went to both Kings and UCL. Whilst UCL is a fine institution and one of the best in the country - if you don't have an overriding and specific reason for wanting to go - there's nothing extra special and no added value other than convenience / easy access to London placements for in-town / City placements and experience - and this is very much a matter of convenience than any kind of special boon. Whilst there are strong academics and prestige, the downside is also considerable - cost of living is wild, some of the halls are a shocker and there's no defined campus. Organisationally UCL was designed by a three year old with a crayon.

The LSE - I personally wouldn't bother. Half of all undergrads are overseas students and you are actually competing for a tiny tiny number of available places, which hardly anyone ever gets. Socially the LSE going to be a struggle too and I definietly remember LSE students going to Kings or UCL or the old ULU (when it existed) for socialising. At one point I seem to recall they had Sports Night with London Met. And all for what? A little bit of perceived prestige for a select number of roles that you might not be interested in.

Maybe its because I'm older now, or because I've spent most of my adult life in Camden - but if given the choice to do it all over again, I would absolutely choose to go somewhere like Bath, Bristol, Exeter maybe even Durham Birmingham or York.
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Original post by Ghost1619
I’ve applied to Warwick Nottingham and Bristol, I got an offer from Nottingham

Hi well I completely understand worrying, I also was freaked out after getting a pre-interview rejection for Oxford law! However now (but it took a couple months) I'm managing to focus on something else because whatever happens you can't change it. I think you should be comforted from the fact you have an offer from Nottingham (its a good uni, well ranked for law, and it looks at the leat meaning you can't have done too bad), and comforted from the fact you haven't been rejected yet, that's what I'm telling myself anyway (Oxford doesn't count ). I think in my case what's making me less tressed is that I'm distracted by some other applications to other countries that I'm making, but if you're not applying anywhere else I would recommend finding something else to think about! I also applied to Bristol and UCL though and I am in the same situation as you so be comforted that you are not alone
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Original post by Trinculo
I went to both Kings and UCL. Whilst UCL is a fine institution and one of the best in the country - if you don't have an overriding and specific reason for wanting to go - there's nothing extra special and no added value other than convenience / easy access to London placements for in-town / City placements and experience - and this is very much a matter of convenience than any kind of special boon. Whilst there are strong academics and prestige, the downside is also considerable - cost of living is wild, some of the halls are a shocker and there's no defined campus. Organisationally UCL was designed by a three year old with a crayon.
The LSE - I personally wouldn't bother. Half of all undergrads are overseas students and you are actually competing for a tiny tiny number of available places, which hardly anyone ever gets. Socially the LSE going to be a struggle too and I definietly remember LSE students going to Kings or UCL or the old ULU (when it existed) for socialising. At one point I seem to recall they had Sports Night with London Met. And all for what? A little bit of perceived prestige for a select number of roles that you might not be interested in.
Maybe its because I'm older now, or because I've spent most of my adult life in Camden - but if given the choice to do it all over again, I would absolutely choose to go somewhere like Bath, Bristol, Exeter maybe even Durham Birmingham or York.

Hi there! Thanks for the insight! I go an offer to Exeter and am waiting on Bristol, King's and UCL and was wondering if you could elaborate? I'm not at all expecting to get accepted to any of the following but on the off chance I do which would you recommend keeping as I've heard good and bad about all of them.
Exeter I like the fact it qualifies me for both law and French law with a master's one in the latter, but it's less highly ranked than the others and I also am worried the campus and city might be too small for me after visiting.
Bristol I like because of the course, which seems more interesting for me, but less qualifying, it doesn't not qualify me for French law. It's also less highly ranked than the London unies. I visited the city very briefly in passing (15 minutes on my way to Exeter and 15 minutes on my way back) but I really took a liking to it: it seemed like it had diverse city life and some parts of the city were extremely beautiful, including the law building. I've also heard about Bristol though (although not from a very reliable source) that it doesn't really help its students, but I know someone there who really likes it!
KCL I loveeee the course, it's the only one where I didn't apply for law with French but for law with other subject also. It's also a very well ranked uni. Although, unlike the other unies it doesn't have any relation to France, and it also doesn't guarantee a year abroad (but there is the possibility to apply for one). On the one hand I've heard online that they don't support students much and aren't very organised but on the other hand I have a friend there who was going through a rough patch and they provided her with a lot of support.
UCL I actually don't know much about other than it's ranked among the top 3 for law whatever ranking you look at. Also the course I applied to has a really good pairing for an amazing French University in Paris.
I'm also worried about choosing the right location, because when I visited London when I was younger I loved it but I'm not sure how I would fair in such a big city, but on the other hand I am used to living in a capital city (around the size of Bristol) and don't know if I could handle somewhere much smaller.
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Hi there! Thanks for the insight! I go an offer to Exeter and am waiting on Bristol, King's and UCL and was wondering if you could elaborate? I'm not at all expecting to get accepted to any of the following but on the off chance I do which would you recommend keeping as I've heard good and bad about all of them.
Exeter I like the fact it qualifies me for both law and French law with a master's one in the latter, but it's less highly ranked than the others and I also am worried the campus and city might be too small for me after visiting.
Bristol I like because of the course, which seems more interesting for me, but less qualifying, it doesn't not qualify me for French law. It's also less highly ranked than the London unies. I visited the city very briefly in passing (15 minutes on my way to Exeter and 15 minutes on my way back) but I really took a liking to it: it seemed like it had diverse city life and some parts of the city were extremely beautiful, including the law building. I've also heard about Bristol though (although not from a very reliable source) that it doesn't really help its students, but I know someone there who really likes it!
KCL I loveeee the course, it's the only one where I didn't apply for law with French but for law with other subject also. It's also a very well ranked uni. Although, unlike the other unies it doesn't have any relation to France, and it also doesn't guarantee a year abroad (but there is the possibility to apply for one). On the one hand I've heard online that they don't support students much and aren't very organised but on the other hand I have a friend there who was going through a rough patch and they provided her with a lot of support.
UCL I actually don't know much about other than it's ranked among the top 3 for law whatever ranking you look at. Also the course I applied to has a really good pairing for an amazing French University in Paris.
I'm also worried about choosing the right location, because when I visited London when I was younger I loved it but I'm not sure how I would fair in such a big city, but on the other hand I am used to living in a capital city (around the size of Bristol) and don't know if I could handle somewhere much smaller.

There is no point at all in trying to micromanage rankings. There is no practical difference between the 5th ranked and 10th ranked university. In broad terms for law, there's Cambridge and Oxford. Then there's the the top tier, which isn't even easy to define but probably Warwick, Notts, Durham, Bristol, Birmingham, certainly UCL and so on. Then there's the pretty much everyone else.

Currently, Durham is showing 6th on some tables and Nottingham 10th. I can tell you now it is going to have no impact at all on your future prospects, whether you went to one of the other. Sure, the difference between 5th and 55th might have an impact - but as I said that's a difference in wider groups.

The other thing with rankings is that (1) a lot of the time they're meaningless due to how they're measured; and (2) they change. To the first, if you look at the metrics, very often they have little to do with the quality of education delivered and are highly susceptible to fiddling by the universities, and student satisfaction tends to play quite a large role in them - which is a notoriously ambiguous concept. Second - in 2023 the Guardian ranked Solent 28th for law. In 2025 the Guardian ranks Solent 5th. Say they drop down again in three years time. If you went to Solent on the basis of ranking at any given point in time, where does that leave you, and does it even matter? Would you go to an employer and say "I went to what was at the time the 5th ranked university for law. I know they're 38th now, but hey".
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Original post by Trinculo
There is no point at all in trying to micromanage rankings. There is no practical difference between the 5th ranked and 10th ranked university. In broad terms for law, there's Cambridge and Oxford. Then there's the the top tier, which isn't even easy to define but probably Warwick, Notts, Durham, Bristol, Birmingham, certainly UCL and so on. Then there's the pretty much everyone else.
Currently, Durham is showing 6th on some tables and Nottingham 10th. I can tell you now it is going to have no impact at all on your future prospects, whether you went to one of the other. Sure, the difference between 5th and 55th might have an impact - but as I said that's a difference in wider groups.
The other thing with rankings is that (1) a lot of the time they're meaningless due to how they're measured; and (2) they change. To the first, if you look at the metrics, very often they have little to do with the quality of education delivered and are highly susceptible to fiddling by the universities, and student satisfaction tends to play quite a large role in them - which is a notoriously ambiguous concept. Second - in 2023 the Guardian ranked Solent 28th for law. In 2025 the Guardian ranks Solent 5th. Say they drop down again in three years time. If you went to Solent on the basis of ranking at any given point in time, where does that leave you, and does it even matter? Would you go to an employer and say "I went to what was at the time the 5th ranked university for law. I know they're 38th now, but hey".
Oh sure, I understand what you mean. Although I do still think that rankings count to a certain extent, I've also been looking at employer reputation rankings. But I understand that these vary and that when I graduate they won't be the same. I do still think that they count internationally, what I would value with the London unies is that they are well known internationally, and I would probably go work internationally and that is something to keep in mind, because internationally, the London unies have had a long standing good reputation which the others might loose. But again it's just one factor of many because Exeter's degree is more qualifying than the London ones and I'm also taking into account which campus I would prefer to live at for 4 years
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Original post by Ghost1619
I recently got rejected from Oxford Law pre interview with the stats 999777765 and A*A*A + A (literature, history, maths + epq respectively) and I really want to go to UCL but I fear a rejection maybe because of LNAT I’m not sure

Easier said than done, I know, but clear all the uni stuff from your brain! Focus on mocks if you have them, or revising for A levels or your hobbies. I found watching A level revision videos and panicking about mocks to be very effective distractions 😅

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