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<blockquote data-quote="LHitchens1" data-source="post: 146456" data-attributes="member: 25586"><p>Fellow Covid student (uni edition) and low grades panicker here! Backstory: I had a similar thing this year in my final year. I did two exam while in severe pain and turned out I was experiencing one of my organs slowly rupturing! I got barely a 2:2 in the two module but got firsts in my favourite module (Law Clinic). First off, yes, grades do matter and to some firms they matter a LOT - do your research now and look at the requirements of each firm. You can tend to tell which firms prefer first class degrees (the ones I think this relates to include Slaughter, FBD, Akin Gump, Milbank, etc.) but there are some firms that do understand situations like this (looking at Hogan Lovells, Latham & Watkins, Mishcon...). Research is your biggest weapon right now!</p><p></p><p>Email the firms you are considering applying to ASAP - the earlier the better as you can get ahead of the influx of students that will tend to start in September, and have a quicker response time than you would when it's prime application season time. I've started doing this now with A&O and a couple others. </p><p></p><p>Explain in the email something like "in my second year, I was experiencing family issues that affected my university work and led to a 2:2 overall. However, I was able to improve in my final year and achieved first class grades. If I were to apply, how would my extenuating circumstances be considered in lieu of my situation?" You can elaborate on the situation if you want, but don't feel that you have to - family issues can be sensitive and they will know that.</p><p></p><p>Also, if you've graduated already, get a job in a related field - it doesn't have to be a legal job! I've started in a role relating to interpreter/translator sourcing and while it has nothing to do with law, it is improving a lot of skills needed to be a solicitor like attention to detail and being very well organised. Having a job and being able to relate it to the competency questions will be more beneficial than just coming out of uni and applying. It adds a little more to your application to show that, yes, you have these grades, but you're working and achieving great things in your job that has transferable skills.</p><p></p><p>I hope this helps? It's what I'm doing anyway, and so long as I stick to my schedule of applying, editing and contacting firms (and also applying to evets/webinars/networking opportunities), I think I'll have an okay shot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LHitchens1, post: 146456, member: 25586"] Fellow Covid student (uni edition) and low grades panicker here! Backstory: I had a similar thing this year in my final year. I did two exam while in severe pain and turned out I was experiencing one of my organs slowly rupturing! I got barely a 2:2 in the two module but got firsts in my favourite module (Law Clinic). First off, yes, grades do matter and to some firms they matter a LOT - do your research now and look at the requirements of each firm. You can tend to tell which firms prefer first class degrees (the ones I think this relates to include Slaughter, FBD, Akin Gump, Milbank, etc.) but there are some firms that do understand situations like this (looking at Hogan Lovells, Latham & Watkins, Mishcon...). Research is your biggest weapon right now! Email the firms you are considering applying to ASAP - the earlier the better as you can get ahead of the influx of students that will tend to start in September, and have a quicker response time than you would when it's prime application season time. I've started doing this now with A&O and a couple others. Explain in the email something like "in my second year, I was experiencing family issues that affected my university work and led to a 2:2 overall. However, I was able to improve in my final year and achieved first class grades. If I were to apply, how would my extenuating circumstances be considered in lieu of my situation?" You can elaborate on the situation if you want, but don't feel that you have to - family issues can be sensitive and they will know that. Also, if you've graduated already, get a job in a related field - it doesn't have to be a legal job! I've started in a role relating to interpreter/translator sourcing and while it has nothing to do with law, it is improving a lot of skills needed to be a solicitor like attention to detail and being very well organised. Having a job and being able to relate it to the competency questions will be more beneficial than just coming out of uni and applying. It adds a little more to your application to show that, yes, you have these grades, but you're working and achieving great things in your job that has transferable skills. I hope this helps? It's what I'm doing anyway, and so long as I stick to my schedule of applying, editing and contacting firms (and also applying to evets/webinars/networking opportunities), I think I'll have an okay shot. [/QUOTE]
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