Has anyone applied for the Cambridge LLM?

Post here if you have - it'd be interesting to know when anyone hears anything from them, and whether you're a UK/EU Home Student or an International Student.

Me? I'm at ICSL. Anyone else here doing the BVC?

Why hasn't anyone applied for the Cambridge LLM on this board?

Odd.

Last year Cambridge offers didn't come out until April. I'm expecting it will be the same this year.

Cambridge offers last year came out between February and June depending on the person.

Er.. hello - an LLM at Cambridge costs over 13,000 pound for a domestic student. If you pay that your a mug!

Considering that the BVC costs a similar amount and is much less useful, I think it's a fair price to pay.

£13,000 including living expenses for the year. LSE costs £8000 fees only

Hey Yellow, what do you mean "depending on the person"? Do they make offers first to the outstanding people and then later to those that weren't quite so terrific? I was wondering why it'd take so long for them to get back to us given the application was pretty short, esp compared to Ox.

Yesterday I got a conditional offer from Cambridge via e-mail. The conditions are to be specified in a letter.

wow, Obligator!
my congrats! I have never heard of anyone getting an offer in January. It seems that you have outstanding credentials.
Where are u from?

The reason that I heard for people getting offers at different times was that they have so many applications they can't simply lay them out on a table and choose. So they pick a small group first who they think are really really good and then they divide everyone else up by country. I guess it also means that they can compare like with like as qualifications, the likeihood that your lecturers know you well as opposed to not at all etc are largely constant by country.

I'm from Germany. It's right that my credentials aren't too bad but I also have to say that I applied rather early.

early means when? (October, November?)

has neone else heard from Cambridge?

Congratulations for your offer! Don't panic - even though it is not exactly what the universities want you to do, you can always accept LSE's offer and drop it if you get accepted somewhere else.
I don't know if that can give you any guidance, but I was accepted by Cambridge and LSE, but not offered any graduate merit award by LSE. So I guess your chances for Cambridge are good!

Hey Menon, I think Nina is right in what she says above. However, I will add a further point of my own. I would not, if I was you, choose LSE over Cambridge if you get in both. Studying at Cambridge will give you a unique learning experience which few institutions can offer. The dialectical style of teaching is fantastic. I, myself, have been accepted by LSE, but I am waiting for Harvards response before I make my mind up.

Good luck,

Just to add my observations of studying at Cambridge: It certainly isn't bad, but I wouldn't rate it that high. I would especially not rate the dialectical style of teaching as fantastic since in my courses (mainly European law) you don't see much of a dialectical style - it's rather the teacher speaking to the crowd. I don't want to bash Cambridge, I really appreciate my time here, but I just wanted to point out that it depends on your courses to which extent the teaching can be judged as exceptional.

I'm at Cam too and while I love it I think that it is worth noting some of the pitfalls of their system. Firstly unless you want to do EU, Int'l or Commercial law its not really great. Oxford has a better jurisprudence course, there's no IT law taught here and basically no Criminal either. Secondly, don't underestimate the impact of the college system on your life here. It can be beneficial or detrimental to you but it will effect you. Thirdly bear in mind that in ways Cambridge is stuck in the past. If you're really after innovation LSE is probably the place to go. They tend to push the boundaries alot more than Cambridge. Having said that I love it here. I'm really enjoying my college life, I've had opportunities to do things I wouldn't have elsewhere and I've been taught by some phenomenal people. I would totally recommend it to anyone.

Hi Yellow

I have to correct you as to the way offers are organised by the university. I was pretty worried when I read your post that the university first makes offers to the very best candidates and then later to candidates by region. I called the university yesterday and spoke to the law faculty (who were very helpful, by the way). I was told that this year, they have had fewer applications for the LLM than last year (850 as opposed to 1000). However, as members of the faculty were deciding on applications at the same time as they were teaching, they were taking some time to consider them. They are about one third of the way through the applications. They are not considering them in any particular order. Ie, they have not made offers to the very best applications. Rather, they just have them in random piles and have just made offers to the ones they have got to. They have a set list of criteria by which they decide to whom they should make offers, which is why they don't have to consider all applications before making offers and can make them as they go along. So to anyone who hasn't received an offer, rest assured that this does not mean that your application is not one of the best. You were just unlucky enough to end up at the bottom of the pile!