Hey Y'all

I need your opinions. So for my back up plan in the UK, I also applied to UCL and LSE. It is more likely that I might be going to one of these unless Cambridge decides to change their mind and offer all 3 of my desired modules or I get accepted to the US universities with a scholarship. I was wondering if you could give me your opinion on which university in london is more prestigious abroad, UCL or LSE? I would appreciate anyone's contributions and reasoning for their answer.

I don't think it would be worth it paying £15k + 12k living expenses just to study one of my desired modules and 3 other modules I am barely interested in. It would be stupid to invest in the LLM only just for the university's title, its bad enough we can only study 4 modules compared to 6-8 plus a dissertation at other universities?

[Edited by tsangc4 on Feb 15, 2018]

Hey Y'all

I need your opinions. So for my back up plan in the UK, I also applied to UCL and LSE. It is more likely that I might be going to one of these unless Cambridge decides to change their mind and offer all 3 of my desired modules or I get accepted to the US universities with a scholarship. I was wondering if you could give me your opinion on which university in london is more prestigious abroad, UCL or LSE? I would appreciate anyone's contributions and reasoning for their answer.

I don't think it would be worth it paying £15k + 12k living expenses just to study one of my desired modules and 3 other modules I am barely interested in. It would be stupid to invest in the LLM only just for the university's title, its bad enough we can only study 4 modules compared to 6-8 plus a dissertation at other universities?

[Edited by LLM2238 on Feb 15, 2018]

Thank you LLM2238 and tsangc4. I was leaning heavily on UCL's international reputation and top 10 ranking. Does anyone from The States know what the attitude towards these 2 are (LSE v UCL)? I am planning on moving back and I whether these universities are at the same league as Yale, Stanford, Princeton, Caltech and etc? Is it easier securing training contracts with an LLM from UCL or LSE?

Also, I kinda fed Cambridge the idea that I was passionate about finance, what I really wanted to study was corporate governance, international commercial litigation, competition law and IP. Hmm

Thank you LLM2238 and tsangc4. I was leaning heavily on UCL's international reputation and top 10 ranking. Does anyone from The States know what the attitude towards these 2 are (LSE v UCL)? I am planning on moving back and I whether these universities are at the same league as Yale, Stanford, Princeton, Caltech and etc? Is it easier securing training contracts with an LLM from UCL or LSE?

Also, I kinda fed Cambridge the idea that I was passionate about finance, what I really wanted to study was corporate governance, international commercial litigation, competition law and IP. Hmm

Thank you LLM2238 and tsangc4. I was leaning heavily on UCL's international reputation and top 10 ranking. Does anyone from The States know what the attitude towards these 2 are (LSE v UCL)? I am planning on moving back and I whether these universities are at the same league as Yale, Stanford, Princeton, Caltech and etc? Is it easier securing training contracts with an LLM from UCL or LSE?

Hi guys, anyone else who got their email indication of acceptance around 5 Feb but still has their status as "under review by department" on the portal and hasn't had further communication from the GAO yet?

Hi guys, anyone else who got their email indication of acceptance around 5 Feb but still has their status as "under review by department" on the portal and hasn't had further communication from the GAO yet?

Hi guys, anyone else who got their email indication of acceptance around 5 Feb but still has their status as "under review by department" on the portal and hasn't had further communication from the GAO yet?

Thank you LLM2238 and tsangc4. I was leaning heavily on UCL's international reputation and top 10 ranking. Does anyone from The States know what the attitude towards these 2 are (LSE v UCL)? I am planning on moving back and I whether these universities are at the same league as Yale, Stanford, Princeton, Caltech and etc? Is it easier securing training contracts with an LLM from UCL or LSE?

Also, I kinda fed Cambridge the idea that I was passionate about finance, what I really wanted to study was corporate governance, international commercial litigation, competition law and IP. Hmm

[Edited by LLM (Cantab) on Feb 23, 2018]

I don't think there's any reason to worry. A friend received her offer conditions yesterday, while my status was 'under review' until this morning and only now changed to 'awaiting GAO approval'.

On another note, what colleges have you guys put as your first preference, and why? :)

I don't think there's any reason to worry. A friend received her offer conditions yesterday, while my status was 'under review' until this morning and only now changed to 'awaiting GAO approval'.

On another note, what colleges have you guys put as your first preference, and why? :)

I don't think there's any reason to worry. A friend received her offer conditions yesterday, while my status was 'under review' until this morning and only now changed to 'awaiting GAO approval'.

On another note, what colleges have you guys put as your first preference, and why? :)

I picked Wolfson too. I have heard Fitzwilliam is great as well.

Hi guys, any opinions as to which would be better, Cambridge LLM or the Oxford BCL?

Thank you LLM2238 and tsangc4. I was leaning heavily on UCL's international reputation and top 10 ranking. Does anyone from The States know what the attitude towards these 2 are (LSE v UCL)? I am planning on moving back and I whether these universities are at the same league as Yale, Stanford, Princeton, Caltech and etc? Is it easier securing training contracts with an LLM from UCL or LSE?

Also, I kinda fed Cambridge the idea that I was passionate about finance, what I really wanted to study was corporate governance, international commercial litigation, competition law and IP. Hmm

You'd be mad to turn down Cambridge for LSE/UCL. Not sure about the States, but in the UK, UCL and LSE are a bit of a joke. They let in anyone who can afford the fees and don't fail anyone. If the modules you're particularly interested in aren't available at Cambridge look for similar ones (edit: don't forge tthe list isn't finalized yet) and/or think about doing a dissertation in one of those subjects.

Hi guys, any opinions as to which would be better, Cambridge LLM or the Oxford BCL?

I don't think there's any reason to worry. A friend received her offer conditions yesterday, while my status was 'under review' until this morning and only now changed to 'awaiting GAO approval'.

On another note, what colleges have you guys put as your first preference, and why? :)

[Edited by nicolas93 on Feb 17, 2018]

My status has changed to "Awaiting approval by the GAO". But no conditions received yet.[/quote

Same here.

Me...

Same. One theory a friend and I had was that they made the clearest decisions earlier in the week and, given the fact that since Monday most/all of the decisions have been rejections, they are now working through the list rejecting people until they are left with everyone else who will get an offer. Or its entirely random. Who knows?

Yes and no. Given the fact that we are the last ones to hear something, I don't know how cheered up we should be. Conversely, as you have said, most of all the decisions have been rejections since Monday and our status is still Under Review, it makes me feel that 1) they haven't reached our applications OR 2) they did but they still have to make a decision. Now, all we're doing is to create hypotheses. I don't know how Cambridge operates but today we should get an answer. All we have to do is hope and fingers crossed to everyone.

3) As a bonus: Don't forget that I think we're approx. 50 people who kept chatting about the apps and stuff. I'm confident that 1000 apps had been sent (in accordance to the stats on the website) and we don't know what the others have received. We're just a tiny part of the entire cohort!

You already received a rejection mail?