Does anyone happen to know if the Director of Graduate taught admissions (Edwin Peel) makes the admission decision himself or this is made by a panel?

hey all,

refrerences for cambridge have to be addressed to "Secretary of the Board of Graduate Studies", but how should you then include this in the reference lette?

- Dear Secretary of the Board of Graduate Studies,
- To the Secretary of the Board of Graduate Studies,
- Dear LLM Admission Committee,

What do you all think?

Aren't the Oxon and Cantab references sealed and hence confidential?

Yes, but that doesn't solve the problem right. Although you might not be able to read the reference you can tell your referee how he has to address them. I don't know what my referees did, maybe I should ask them. But don't you think Dear Sir or Madam is also enough?

Yes; I think that the regular salutations are adequate =)

Yes; I think that the regular salutations are adequate =)

Thanks.. I'll remind my referee. Just wanted to know if everyone's applying online?

OMG I hope my referees addressed them correctly... Well now it's too late anyways. ;-) Hope that doesn't influence my application..

I am applying online. It's easier than having all this paper mess especially if you are applying to several unis.

My apologies people; but I'm sure Cambridge won't turn away worthy candidates just over nomenclature? Anyway we have a long and painful wait!

Hi.

The Cambridge online application form says that you should write a maximum of 16 lines when writing about your reason for undertaking the course. Does a blank line between paragraphs count as a line? I wouldn't think so, but the application looked strange when I took a printout. The text didn't fit properly in the window.

Has anybody else had the same problem?

I thought it is maximum 16 lines and 130 characters (plus spacing) for each line. You can actually use microsoft words to count the characters including the spacing..

Dear all,

please advise me on payment of registration fee. I can have a credit card only in USD or Euro, and as I understood, I have to specify the details of my credit card for payment of registration fee which constitues 35 pounds. Do you think it is possible to provide the details of USD/Euro credit card? can they debit the necessary amount in another currency equivalent to 35 pounds?

OMG I hope my referees addressed them correctly... Well now it's too late anyways. ;-) Hope that doesn't influence my application..

I am applying online. It's easier than having all this paper mess especially if you are applying to several unis.

Hey guys,

I would like to get your opinion on my chances for LSE, Cmabrdige and Oxford.

I have done a LLB programme at the best university in my country and finished 4th in a group of more than 330 graduates.

For an english taught LLM programme at the same university I finished 2dn oin a group of 43 graduates.

What do you think of my chances? I honestly thinkt that I will get into LSE but the other two will probably reject me... :(

hi,

for the application paper for Cambridge, I had a 12,5 at my staatsexam .Do you write your grade from your home country or do you try to "translate" it in a UK grade?

thank you

Hey guys,

I would like to get your opinion on my chances for LSE, Cmabrdige and Oxford.

I have done a LLB programme at the best university in my country and finished 4th in a group of more than 330 graduates.

For an english taught LLM programme at the same university I finished 2dn oin a group of 43 graduates.

What do you think of my chances? I honestly thinkt that I will get into LSE but the other two will probably reject me... :(

Hey guys,

I would like to get your opinion on my chances for LSE, Cmabrdige and Oxford.

I have done a LLB programme at the best university in my country and finished 4th in a group of more than 330 graduates.

For an english taught LLM programme at the same university I finished 2dn oin a group of 43 graduates.

What do you think of my chances? I honestly thinkt that I will get into LSE but the other two will probably reject me... :(

Why do you expect Oxbridge to reject someone who graduated within top 1,5% (or, regarding your LLM, within top 5% respectively)?

Well, for what it's worth someone who I think ought to know recently told me that approx the top 10% of Oxford law graduates would be able to get into the BCL course. So, even allowing for a reasonable level of "discounting" of graduates from non-Oxbridge universities you ought to be in with a chance. I know how you feel though - it's hard to assess how the admissions team will regard the quality of legal education in your country / at the particular university you attended. I know when I moved to work in private practice in the UK I encountered quite a lot of comments along the lines of "you must find the work much harder / more challenging here in London". Which it wasn't, particularly.

All depends on the blasted references...