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<blockquote data-quote="Jessica Booker" data-source="post: 12960" data-attributes="member: 2672"><p>My last post may have seemed flippant and a lot of people question whether that’s the reality. However it is the reality....</p><p></p><p>What typically happens, is candidates from higher ranked universities <strong><em>typically</em> </strong>have stronger applications as a whole compared to those from lower universities - and by this I mean collectively.</p><p></p><p>There are always individual exceptions to this, otherwise I wouldn’t have recruited people from Kingston, Northampton, London Met, Hertfordshire and definitely wouldn’t have actively recruited from places like City/Royal Holloway, Greenwich and Northumbria.</p><p></p><p>But generally the higher the university you go to the more:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You achieve academically before you go there</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You typically have a profile that means just like you got into a highly competitive/high standard degree course, you also have that profile for a highly competitive/high standard career</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Also you get the osmosis effect of being around people who are also of the caliber. If you are in a cohort at uni who are all aiming for a TC at a MC firm, you pick up a lot more compared to a uni where you might be the only person aiming to work in a MC firm. That osmosis effect can help you submit a stronger application.</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You’ll probably have more informed careers advisors and lecturers too, plus law societies who have stronger connections to firms, and better alumni networks.</li> </ul><p></p><p>But again there are exceptions to all of this - especially now sharing information and the amount of opportunities to learn has grown (one of the key reasons I am on here!). So its not like your fate is sealed by going to a low ranked uni, it’s just probably a hell of a lot easier for you to learn from those around you at a more highly ranked one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jessica Booker, post: 12960, member: 2672"] My last post may have seemed flippant and a lot of people question whether that’s the reality. However it is the reality.... What typically happens, is candidates from higher ranked universities [B][I]typically[/I] [/B]have stronger applications as a whole compared to those from lower universities - and by this I mean collectively. There are always individual exceptions to this, otherwise I wouldn’t have recruited people from Kingston, Northampton, London Met, Hertfordshire and definitely wouldn’t have actively recruited from places like City/Royal Holloway, Greenwich and Northumbria. But generally the higher the university you go to the more: [LIST] [*]You achieve academically before you go there [*]You typically have a profile that means just like you got into a highly competitive/high standard degree course, you also have that profile for a highly competitive/high standard career [/LIST] [LIST] [*]Also you get the osmosis effect of being around people who are also of the caliber. If you are in a cohort at uni who are all aiming for a TC at a MC firm, you pick up a lot more compared to a uni where you might be the only person aiming to work in a MC firm. That osmosis effect can help you submit a stronger application. [/LIST] [LIST] [*]You’ll probably have more informed careers advisors and lecturers too, plus law societies who have stronger connections to firms, and better alumni networks. [/LIST] But again there are exceptions to all of this - especially now sharing information and the amount of opportunities to learn has grown (one of the key reasons I am on here!). So its not like your fate is sealed by going to a low ranked uni, it’s just probably a hell of a lot easier for you to learn from those around you at a more highly ranked one. [/QUOTE]
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