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scholarships to study law are very competitive pls and i think this OP wants to work as a lawyer

Originally Posted by Unregistered

if you go to LSE...and (1) you don't get a UK law firm offer or (2) you are not a scholar who's just collecting certifications ....there won't be any point. met some LSE law folks myself and the ones who came back to Singapore to work aren't exceptionally brilliant (like smarter than NUS law brilliant)...

I believe George Soros would like a word with your small firm boss.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

scholarships to study law are very competitive pls and i think this OP wants to work as a lawyer

See whether can get lor. What to do? I also cannot advise him to spend his parents' money, I can only tell him how he can make up for it.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I believe George Soros would like a word with your small firm boss.

This is a joke btw.

You're comparing apples and oranges. Brilliant in terms of SG law? We did 3 years UK law vs your 4 years SG law. Don't think this is a fair comparison

Hello, just wondering, are legal 500/chambers rankings a good gauge of the quality of the practice group/nature of work you get exposed to? Is there a discernible difference working for a T1 vs T2/T3/unranked teams? Thanks!

anyone know if it's possible to do part-time work during part b? is sile known to allow this? thanks

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I believe George Soros would like a word with your small firm boss.

You forgot David Rockefeller, JFK, Taro Aso, Justin Trudeau Senior, Ed Miliband, and about 18 Nobel Prize laureates

Originally Posted by Unregistered

You forgot David Rockefeller, JFK, Taro Aso, Justin Trudeau Senior, Ed Miliband, and about 18 Nobel Prize laureates

Maybe the past and present leaders of the world would like to buck up (we're rooting for you Ed).

Originally Posted by Unregistered

(I'm sorry, somehow it looks my initial reply was lost but lemme try again now).

Ok, maybe 'can afford it' is a misnomer. My parents (neither are lawyers) are a bit cagey about money (and they aren't lawyers), but I get the impression that they would be able to pay for it with some sacrifices. I suspect that if I go, they won't have any savings left.. which leads me to my misgivings of taking their money.

On reapplying: I can! And I plan to do it! That's also why I'm presently leaning towards NUS. Cause, in that sense, I would only be taking up the offer for a year for 'pre law training' before going to oxbridge. But of course, getting into oxbridge in 2021 is not a guarantee, and if I choose to do so (take NUS instead of LSE in 2020), LSE will probably blacklist me as a no-show in sept. But then again, taking LSE as 'pre law training' would also mean I would blow aprox 25k of my parent's hard earned money on top of the oxbridge int fees (should i get it)... Or are you suggesting I take a gap year? Although after serving NS for 2yrs I'm not sure if I would let my brain atrophy further...

On the online semester: NUS is apparently gonna go online for sem1, but LSE says that tutorials will still be F2F... so I guess that's a point for LSE?

Anyways, thank you for taking the time!

Hello, I agree with your reapplying logic, if you're really planning on reapplying My friends in London have shown me what their schools have said, and it's pretty likely that not all the facilities are going to be open, even if some tutorials are f2f. Essentially that means you are paying a lot of money and not even getting all the resources....so if you plan to reapply and go to Oxford then you're wasting a year of money which is a lot, and it's not great to be wasting it on a COVID-19-affected overseas uni experience.

If you're the filial kinda kid, although I agree LSE opens up a lot of options, just considering it from another angle, if it's really a stretch for your parents and you can go to local uni then I think you should definitely assess based on how much of a stretch it's going to be on your parents

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hello, I agree with your reapplying logic, if you're really planning on reapplying My friends in London have shown me what their schools have said, and it's pretty likely that not all the facilities are going to be open, even if some tutorials are f2f. Essentially that means you are paying a lot of money and not even getting all the resources....so if you plan to reapply and go to Oxford then you're wasting a year of money which is a lot, and it's not great to be wasting it on a COVID-19-affected overseas uni experience.

If you're the filial kinda kid, although I agree LSE opens up a lot of options, just considering it from another angle, if it's really a stretch for your parents and you can go to local uni then I think you should definitely assess based on how much of a stretch it's going to be on your parents

yes the parents' savings is definitely the most important factor here