Good for you. I have been thinking about the 'Merit Rating' issue and wish to speculate as follows: The 'SG' employs the numbers 0-9 for each selection category beginning with academic qualifications. A course that considers only 3 heads of qualifications will therefore bear the MR 000 for the lowest and 999 for the highest merit rating. The first zero meaning no academic qualification and the other two representing other criteria such as work experience, proof of previous academic curiosity and so on and so forth. A course that considers more could bear the MR 0 000 for the lowest and 9 999 for the highest.

Since according to Studera.nu the MR will only be displaced for applicants who have met the basic admission qualification to the courses however, i.e. academic, there would no result in MR that begins with a zero.

I would therefore speculate that an applicant for say the International Commercial Arbitration master course in the University of Stockholm with the MR 999 stands a good chance of admission subject only to class capacity.

This could mean that should there be more candidates with the highest MR qualifications than the class can take the SG could resort to random drawing methods such as the use of computer sorting and those who get selected in those circumstances could be considered to be the 'lucky' ones.

Personally, I have now given the page a break. May 9 appears so far so I will concentrate on reading people's views here and going about my life as a distraction.

Hey so have you gotten anything I applied for International Human Rights and Intellectual property and maritime law my stomach is churning witha nxiety if anyone gets a response keep us posted

Not yet. I personally doubt that anyone will receive a notification of admission before the conclusion of the process otherwise it would not make sense to assess the applications in terms of merit rating.

If that were to be the case what would they do in the event that the remaining applicants turn out to be of extremely high MRs? It would mean they might contemplate 'recalling' some of the 'notifications of admissions'!

Looks like we just have to wait and be happy to receive MR whenever it pops up because at least that means that the applicant is fully qualified for the course subject to space and competition from other equally or more qualified candidates.

I am turning to milk. It is good for the stomach: -)

All the best to you!

Hey everyone... its a new week!

Lund updated their website to reflect the May 8 announcement date - I suppose that makes it official!

I hope everyone is enjoying what they are doing this weekend - I'm studying for final exams (sort of).

Hello everyone,

seems like we have to wait for a longer period then, wish you all the best in life.
Now i got to get back on my daily life, soliciting, drafting and negotiating, and lawyering...life oh life...

Hi! applicants of Lund University,

It's only last 10 days for waiting. Hope all of you lucky on 8th May 08.

Oddly, the anxiety has disappeared-the waiting is almost over! Good luck!

Anxiety disappearing? What's your secret?!

I feel like I think about this so much, that on the days I'm not thinking about it, I feel like I'm forgetting to do something.

How goofy is that?

My secret is that I have no choice but to study for exams! Haha. i always go into "tunnel vision mode" during exams, which is a good thing. but my anxiety over waiting for notification has been replaced with the stress of exams--honestly, the waiting was much worse because i can control how much i study! i have no say at all as to when and how the results will come out.

good luck-keep me posted, and I'll do the same!

My MR showed up today for my HR application--999. has anyone else got a MR? does anyone know what it means exactly? I'm confused, because I thought that the university selected the students, so how is the MR calculated?

Wow... I just felt my stomach drop. I just checked and I, too, have an MR...

My MR is 1.

Hopefully, for both of us, they are just place holders. No idea what it means - maybe they are just rankings for how the student ranked their programs (Lund is the only program I applied for - and perhaps you applied for other programs that still haven't come back with their results yet?)

Whatever it is, I hope its not bad for either of us!

Lund is the only program I applied to as well. i had no idea what it meant either, but I don't think that we should pay much attention to it since we'd only be speculating anyway. at least we've made it through the entrance eligibility portion, right?!

Yeah - its good that we know we hit the acceptance requirements.

I read on another website (there's a facebook group dedicated to this process) that Lund has been assigning different numbers under different programs (and some Lund programs have even issued conditional acceptance letters).

I applied for human rights and labour rights. Which one did you apply for?

I have applied for LLM in International Human Rights Law. Now my SG shows LUMAS and my MR shows 999.

I dont know what does it means.

Napolibo, I've applied to the HR Programme (only the HR concentration) so maybe our MR numbers have absolutely nothing in common! like I said, I'm not going to speculate about it. besides, this coordinated system with VHS is so new that I don't think that anyone, except for the national admissions office, can shed accurate light on it. I have a Swedish friend who told me that Swedes, as a culture, are very honest, but they are reserved, so if you want to know something, you've got to ask straight up! haha-I kinda like that...

guys, why dont you ask lund about this, My MR is also 1 still i haven't got any idea about it. so i'm deeply waiting in anxiety like most of you guys

Hey everyone!!!
it is almost a week now!!!
best lucky to all of you!!! :)

Napolibo, could you tell me, please, the name of the discussion group on facebook??!!
I am very anxious about all this as I think everyone is, and I hope we all get accepted!!!

Cheers!!!!

I applied for maritime law and also mr=1

rejected?

lets hope not, but who knows?

I also saw todya
LUMAS and my MR -1

is it less than 999 or more?)))