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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Oxbridge/Ivies are historically undergraduate institutions. Many people go there for post grad because they did not go through the undergrad programmes but aspired to have the brand name on their CVs. Unfortunately, the experience is totally different. What’s odd are some who did undergrad at a lesser U, then go there for a short postgrad and thereafter play down their undergrad alma mater.
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That’s why such comments are made by people not within the legal industry. Everyone (in law) knows the difficulty of getting into Oxbridge for the BCL/LLM. By virtue of the BCL/LLM from Harvard and Oxbridge, you can already qualify to be an Assistant/Associate Professor in the local unis lecturing in law. The same strict admissions / and the competitiveness of entry can’t be said for other Masters degrees (for eg a MPhil in history etc) within Oxbridge.
If indeed those from lesser unis go on to do a BCL/LLM from Oxbridge and are indeed “lesser”, then explain why so many of the top lawyers, judges, have such qualifications in their CVs.