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[Tina1]

Has anyone here applied/received an offer or graduated from LSE's LL.B program? Would be curious to know how the NCA process went and the overall experience from receiving an LSE law degree; which I think is better than any Canadian school's J.D

I hear a lot of the other schools are a crap-process (i.e., City, Leicester) and hand out offers immediately to foreigners for $$; but LSE is obviously the world's most prestigious LL.B/undergraduate program and is highly selective - just wanted to gauge how many Canadians have actually ever gotten a spot.

Edited by Tina1, 21 February 2012 - 03:51 PM.

[8idl]

Tina1, on 21 February 2012 - 03:49 PM, said:

an LSE law degree; which I think is better than any Canadian school's J.D

[maturestudent]

No doubt LSE has a good law program, but it certainly isn't the world's best or most prestigious. In an international ranking I've seen, it was rated just slightly higher than McGill and U of T, and given the subjectivity of these rankings, that difference is not meaningful. In the UK, it ranks around number 5:

http://www.guardian....rsity-guide-law

Incidentally, you will notice that Leicester ranks as no. 15 out of 90 UK law schools, which is a lot better than "crap." If you wanted to stay and practice in the UK, LSE would give you a better chance of getting a job, but even a prestigious English law school probably wouldn't make you very marketable in Canada.

[8idl]

Sorry for being a jerk but I fail to see how any foreign degree could be better than a Canadian degree if you want to work in Canada, which I'm assuming you do because you're asking about the NCA process.

[Stupor]

8idl, on 21 February 2012 - 06:00 PM, said:

Sorry for being a jerk but I fail to see how any foreign degree could be better than a Canadian degree if you want to work in Canada, which I'm assuming you do because you're asking about the NCA process.

Actually, apparently she's a JD/MBA student at (or grad from) a "Tier One US law school". And she's got an axe to grind about the poor leadership and lack of extracurricular achievements among students at Canadian law schools:
http://lawstudents.c...__fromsearch__1

Edited by Stupor, 21 February 2012 - 06:12 PM.

[Radfahrer]

It sounds like a desperate applicant realizing that they might not get into a Canadian school. I respect those who recognize that fact, and have such a passion to become a lawyer and realize their goals that they're able to realize they're taking the less direct and very tough path where the odds are stacked against them.

You've got to have some gall to just just shut your ears and delude yourself that a foreign law school is better than Canadian schools for practice in Canada. You have no right to say that you're above attending Canadian schools if you didn't get accepted to one in the first place!

[staffer]

Tina1, on 21 February 2012 - 03:49 PM, said:

Has anyone here applied/received an offer or graduated from LSE's LL.B program? Would be curious to know how the NCA process went and the overall experience from receiving an LSE law degree; which I think is better than any Canadian school's J.D

I hear a lot of the other schools are a crap-process (i.e., City, Leicester) and hand out offers immediately to foreigners for $$; but LSE is obviously the world's most prestigious LL.B/undergraduate program and is highly selective - just wanted to gauge how many Canadians have actually ever gotten a spot.

A guy I was kind of friends with in undergrad with is at LSE law. Strangely he was admitted to "obviously the world's most prestigious LL.B/undergraduate program" yet was rejected from literally every law school in Ontario (not sure if he applied to Duel JD, but he was definitely rejected from Windsor single).