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<blockquote data-quote="Pallatablelawyer" data-source="post: 12544" data-attributes="member: 2261"><p>Hello Jessica,</p><p></p><p>Welcome! I am pretty late here ! I just wanted to ask, I am incoming Durham Masters student with a 2:1 degree from Essex. I am really worried about my background and how it will affect my training contract applications. In my first and second year, I achieved 2:2s. Mainly being because I was banned from Using university services due to non-payment of tuition. You see, I am an international student and when I came here Nigeria fell into an economic crisis. The naira moved from 250N to £1, to N600 to a £1 .. my parents wages did not move. My father has 5 children and I am the first, so it was virtually impossible to pay tuition or pay rent. My fees were usually borrowed a certain amount at a time and it took a long time to secure because banks refused to give loans during such a tumultous period. My fees were only paid a few weeks till end of terms. Interestingly enough I was allowed to submit essays and write exams. So i usually conducted my own work myself, sometimes I starved for days it was brutal. Anyways, in final year things improved, but I lost my uncle & grandfather during the year. It was really hard but I had to get on with it the same way i got on with the last few years. So I got a few high firsts,78,76 and a few decent 2:1s, 62-65s, and I finished with a 64 for the year. </p><p></p><p>Now within all that struggle, I graduated with a University award for leadership, was a volunteer football coach,president of the black social political society, volunteered at a justice centre. Luckily, I also did legal work experience at a small firm in central London, and Ropes &Gray(not a vac scheme). I did all this because I couldnt sit in my room starving and crying and lwt myself fall deeper into that depressing period it was. I am now going into this masters with the firm determination that I need to get a first, and i need to get on winter, easter and summer vac schemes. I am wondering, will my grades hold me back? Cause I am also looking to secure a training contract here. I am really interested in working on global transactions, the likes of which I wont have access to in my Home country. Quite frankly, I am not a fan of the legal system there. </p><p></p><p>Anyways, If my grades will hold me back from securing a vac scheme, or a training contract, would perfect grades on the masters plus legal volunteering on the masters help? I am a really determined to get a training contract but it would be nice to know if my doors are already closed before they open or not. I am a big believer in opening other doors, so i am not phased by a door being closed too. I hope this was not too long.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pallatablelawyer, post: 12544, member: 2261"] Hello Jessica, Welcome! I am pretty late here ! I just wanted to ask, I am incoming Durham Masters student with a 2:1 degree from Essex. I am really worried about my background and how it will affect my training contract applications. In my first and second year, I achieved 2:2s. Mainly being because I was banned from Using university services due to non-payment of tuition. You see, I am an international student and when I came here Nigeria fell into an economic crisis. The naira moved from 250N to £1, to N600 to a £1 .. my parents wages did not move. My father has 5 children and I am the first, so it was virtually impossible to pay tuition or pay rent. My fees were usually borrowed a certain amount at a time and it took a long time to secure because banks refused to give loans during such a tumultous period. My fees were only paid a few weeks till end of terms. Interestingly enough I was allowed to submit essays and write exams. So i usually conducted my own work myself, sometimes I starved for days it was brutal. Anyways, in final year things improved, but I lost my uncle & grandfather during the year. It was really hard but I had to get on with it the same way i got on with the last few years. So I got a few high firsts,78,76 and a few decent 2:1s, 62-65s, and I finished with a 64 for the year. Now within all that struggle, I graduated with a University award for leadership, was a volunteer football coach,president of the black social political society, volunteered at a justice centre. Luckily, I also did legal work experience at a small firm in central London, and Ropes &Gray(not a vac scheme). I did all this because I couldnt sit in my room starving and crying and lwt myself fall deeper into that depressing period it was. I am now going into this masters with the firm determination that I need to get a first, and i need to get on winter, easter and summer vac schemes. I am wondering, will my grades hold me back? Cause I am also looking to secure a training contract here. I am really interested in working on global transactions, the likes of which I wont have access to in my Home country. Quite frankly, I am not a fan of the legal system there. Anyways, If my grades will hold me back from securing a vac scheme, or a training contract, would perfect grades on the masters plus legal volunteering on the masters help? I am a really determined to get a training contract but it would be nice to know if my doors are already closed before they open or not. I am a big believer in opening other doors, so i am not phased by a door being closed too. I hope this was not too long. [/QUOTE]
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