Hey guys,

I feel kind of in a pickle and was hoping some of you could give me a piece of advice. Maybe someone was in a similar situation?

I have graduated from the University of Aberdeen with MA (Hons) in International Relations and Language and Linguistics with rubbish 2:2 classification. I was in a pretty complicated situation during my studies as I did my first year of Uni in Poland and then decided to transfer to Aberdeen. Aberdeen then decided that during my second year I need to do double amount of courses to make up my credit points so my work load, as you can probably imagine, was huge. This led to health problems (depression) during my 3 year which I have almost failed. My fourth year was the best getting mainly high 2:1, 1st grades.

That's a bit of a background, let's get to the point.

I have been working since graduation in a recruitment agency where I do mostly marketing and commercial stuff. We deal a lot with oil & gas industry and I do get to do some law-related, contract work. Therefore, I have decided to 're-qualify' and do 2-year Graduate LLB degree in distance-learning mode. I got a place at Robert Gordon's University as they are the only place that have the degree accredited by the Law Society of Scotland in distance-learning mode. After finishing that I would like to do the Diploma in Professional Legal Practice.

My question is: what are my chance of getting to do the Diploma at good university (such as let's say Edinburgh) with my previous 2:2 and non-Honours Graduate LLB? Also maybe it would be worth to go and try to get and entry straight to LLM, eg oil & gas or commercial? The only problem is that I really want to do law but I am not entirely sure if i want to spend the rest of my life in oil & gas business. Maybe I'm just Aberdeen biased?... Also LLM wouldn't let me study and work at the same time.

It's a key decision as I will need to pay a nice sum of money for the LLB so I would rather know it know before accepting my place. I really hope some of you have more knowledge or experience regarding this.

Anyone? :(

I don't mean this in a patronising tone, but why don't you apply for the diploma with your 2:2 degree and see what happens? then, if you get rejections, you can consider an LLM. In my humble opinion, you'd be much better off if you landed a diploma offer without the LLM... that would safe you one year and a few thousand pounds...