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UCAS, LNAT and Law Substituting Choices

I have just sent my ucas application of a few days ago. I applied to KCL but i've started overthinking that decision. I sat my LNAT which felt like it went horribly and the fact my practices tests didn't go as well mostly 17 and an occasional score in the 20s doesn't help. I ran out of time to proofread my essay (though I know KCl docent look as much as this). For context my GCSE grades are not terrible but also not competitive (I avg 7's). Considering all of that and the fact that KCL want really high LNAT grades on the MCQ and are notorious for rejecting well rounded applicants who end up getting offers from Cambridge or Oxford. Im overthinking my decision to apply there, Im considering withdrawing my application (as Im still in that window) and substituting it with a different London Uni, but i don't even know if that will be any better.

Im not sure if im just getting into my head and overthinking to much about it, KCL is my aspirational Uni and you have 5 choices for a reason. I do have some unis i applied to where my grades is above the requirement.
Maybe im just being silly but im not sure any advise would be great.

Update: I just got rejected :smile:

(edited 2 months ago)

Reply 1

username7394154

Original post by spiderman911

I have just sent my ucas application of a few days ago. I applied to KCL but i've started overthinking that decision. I sat my LNAT which felt like it went horribly and the fact my practices tests didn't go as well mostly 17 and an occasional score in the 20s doesn't help. I ran out of time to proofread my essay (though I know KCl docent look as much as this). For context my GCSE grades are not terrible but also not competitive (I avg 7's). Considering all of that and the fact that KCL want really high LNAT grades on the MCQ and are notorious for rejecting well rounded applicants who end up getting offers from Cambridge or Oxford. Im overthinking my decision to apply there, Im considering withdrawing my application (as Im still in that window) and substituting it with a different London Uni, but i don't even know if that will be any better.
Im not sure if im just getting into my head and overthinking to much about it, KCL is my aspirational Uni and you have 5 choices for a reason. I do have some unis i applied to where my grades is above the requirement.
Maybe im just being silly but im not sure any advise would be great.

Where else have you applied and what are your predicted grades? I'd say it depends how much you'd rather go to a London uni. If you have one safe choice (where you're sure you'll get in), then I'd say you can put as many aspirational choice as you want. If you're hesitating between two unies that you're sure you'll get in to for example, put both of those, and then either you can put three more aspirational choices or you can be aspirational by degrees, for example two aspirational choices grade wise and then one aspirational grades + lnat. Of course this is only if the aspirational choices interest you. You could also apply to King's and another uni. But ofc I'm no expert.
If you want to apply to a non-lnat uni in London you could try Queen Mary. Based off of what I've heard, so some of this might be wrong: King's doesn't use the essay but very heavily base themselves on the lnat score (apparently for home students they tend to have a cutoff score of 30 but maybe they make exceptions) and I've heard both that they disregard the personal statement and that they look at it a lot so idk. LSE apparently looks at personal statement, I don't know a lot about LSE though because I didn't apply there so I don't know about the lnat. UCL uses all 3 but are more heavy on the lnat essay I believe

Reply 2

spiderman911

the rest of the unis i applied to are between A*AA, AAA and AAB and my predicted is A*AA. I applied to 2 LNAT unis including bristol and the rest our non LNAT. Do you think maybe i should do UCL so i know that they will look at other aspects of my application?