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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Hey learned people and more experienced practitioners, asking for advice for a friend who's in a dilemma:
apply for PSC legal scholarship for oxbridge law and be bonded for 6 years; OR
borrow money from parents (part of their retirement savings) for oxbridge law (~200k sgd, rest will be funded by side hustles) and try to secure an intl firm TC post-grad to pay them back? (from middle-lower income family) |
I would apply for the scholarship as there’s no guarantee your friend will graduate with FCH and secure the international firm TC upon graduation. If that falls through then second option
6 years is not that long, if they get FCH and get judicial clerkship followed by rotation to do Sup Court registry work, the cases they are exposed to for those years may also put them in good stead for subsequent career moves in practice.
I appreciate that this topic has been discussed before some time back so let’s try to agree that everyone will have different views ya