Creating this chat for 2024-25 MIDS applicants. Please feel free to drop a 'Hi'.

I submitted my application this evening.

[Edited by Arjun Solanki on Dec 12, 2023]

Hi! Has the status on your application tracker vanished? The results were to be out today right?

Hi! Has the status on your application tracker vanished? The results were to be out today right?

Results are out. 

I’ve been placed on a priority reserve list. Does anyone know what that means? 

Results are out. 

I’ve been placed on a priority reserve list. Does anyone know what that means? 

What is the maximum scholarship offered by MIDS? Is it full tuition or full tuition+living expenses? Also what percentage of financial aid applicants receive such funding?

Hi. Should we consider making a WhatsApp group for the MIDS admits 2024-2025?
With the deadline to accept the offer approaching, it might be helpful to have a quick get introduced or share any concerns.

Hi! That would be great. Could you please message me the link to the group?

PS: I am on the waiting list.

Hello, any movement for anyone else on the reserve list?

Hello, any movement for anyone else on the reserve list?

Hi. Should we consider making a WhatsApp group for the MIDS admits 2024-2025?
With the deadline to accept the offer approaching, it might be helpful to have a quick get introduced or share any concerns.


Hey, has a group been created? If yes, could you please share the link.
Thanks in advance.

Hello, any movement for anyone else on the reserve list?

We will start hearing from 2nd April.

Hello, any movement for anyone else on the reserve list?

We will start hearing from 2nd April.

Has anyone from the reserve list heard back? 

Hello everyone,
This may not be directly related to the current discussion, but I would greatly appreciate it if anyone could help answer my query.

I am planning to apply to the MIDS programme within the next two years and would like to know more about their GPA expectations. While the website states there is no minimum GPA requirement, it does mention that good grades are essential. I am on track to graduate with a 2.1 (3.4-3.6 GPA), though I do have some modules in my transcript that fall below this level. Could this potentially affect my chances of being admitted to the programme? Has anyone here, or someone you know, been admitted with similar grades?

I have already emailed the admissions department regarding this query but unfortunately they have not yet replied back to me. Thank you in advance.

Hello everyone,
This may not be directly related to the current discussion, but I would greatly appreciate it if anyone could help answer my query.

I am planning to apply to the MIDS programme within the next two years and would like to know more about their GPA expectations. While the website states there is no minimum GPA requirement, it does mention that good grades are essential. I am on track to graduate with a 2.1 (3.4-3.6 GPA), though I do have some modules in my transcript that fall below this level. Could this potentially affect my chances of being admitted to the programme? Has anyone here, or someone you know, been admitted with similar grades?

I have already emailed the admissions department regarding this query but unfortunately they have not yet replied back to me. Thank you in advance.

Hello everyone,

This may not be directly related to the current discussion, but I would greatly appreciate it if anyone could help answer my query.



I am planning to apply to the MIDS programme within the next two years and would like to know more about their GPA expectations. While the website states there is no minimum GPA requirement, it does mention that good grades are essential. I am on track to graduate with a 2.1 (3.4-3.6 GPA), though I do have some modules in my transcript that fall below this level. Could this potentially affect my chances of being admitted to the programme? Has anyone here, or someone you know, been admitted with similar grades?



I have already emailed the admissions department regarding this query but unfortunately they have not yet replied back to me. Thank you in advance.

Hi a1!



I've applied to MIDS a few years ago and got admission with a full scholarship (I ended up going to Harvard for my LLM, though).



Usually, schools will have different thresholds for applicants from different countries. For international programs, the adcoms are typically quite knowledgeable about the grade systems around the world, especially for countries from where they get a lot of applicants.



I'd also say that grades are a bigger challenge for scholarships rather than admission. You might get admission, securing a full scholarship can be hard.



As someone who's been on the admissions committee (at the European University Institute) and regularly talks to representatives of law schools in my capacity of the admissions consultant, I've got to say that the universities are very unlikely to disclose they grade thresholds to applicants.



The reason is that it is in the school's interest to encourage as many people as possible to apply, because it increases the competitiveness of the program and positively affects their reputation.



On the other hand, grades are the only quantitative part of the application, and each application is assessed holistically. In the same vein, for international programs applicants are usually evaluated against other applicants from the same country (not everybody in the same pool).

This means that even if you grades are below the standard threshold, you'll have a higher chance of success, and other parts of your application are important.



I write a lot about the LLM application process, you can read about it on my website (link in the bio).

I also have a guide on the core components of an LLM application and the relative weight of each.



Hope it helps and good luck! ;)

[Edited by a1 on Nov 09, 2024]

One of the places you could use to tell about this is the motivation letter. Since you'd usually talk about your academic excellence in it, it could also be pertinent to let the admissions committee know what might have impacted it.

Another way to go about it would be to write a separate (short, about half a page) document to accompany the application - but you should check if MIDS allows attaching additional documents.
In the American context, it is called an addendum to the application but unfortunately it's not very common in Europe.