Originally Posted by Unregistered

For the benefit of all juniors:

Do not waste time applying/asking your professors or law firm partners to write references for your application to Harvard, or Oxbridge LLMs (BCL) if you are clearly not a summa cum laude or first class honours.

In very rare situations, NUS 2:1 or SMU magna have been accepted before but these people are in the top 6-7% with one or more prizes or dean’s list. In other words they fall marginally outside the top 5% threshold but clearly within top 10%.

Oxbridge only admits the top and top is not an understatement.