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Dejan:
What does the University Of Melbourne Juris Doctor course involve, so what do you study out of it and what career pathways can a Juris Doctor get you?

Soul_Khan:
If you don't get into undergraduate law at Monash perhaps you might want to do an arts degree and transfer afterwards?

pi:

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The criteria are: Academic results from previous tertiary studies, Law School Admission Test (LSAT) Score and Essay, and a personal statement (up to 850 words).

I'm far from an expert here, but the JD is just like a law degree but I believe it's more reputable. I'll let some law students take over from here :)

Dejan:

--- Quote from: Dejan on September 17, 2012, 04:58:43 pm ---What does the University Of Melbourne Juris Doctor course involve, so what do you study out of it and what career pathways can a Juris Doctor get you?

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Yes that is exactly what I am going to do! :D

sluu001:
My advice to aspiring law students is to try a few law subjects first as electives before jumping head long into the program. Even for the people genuinely interested in the dicipline - it can be the most boring, dry, tedious and soul sucking experience of your life. A lot of kids who come straight out of highschool get caught up in the romantisism of the degree and forget about the practicality of the degree - you need to remember that there is an over supply of lawyers already so you will need to graduate in the top 3rd of your class in a course that contains arguably some of the most tedious exams ever (a couple of law subjects I did had 100% weightage on the exam) - just to make the initial cut off for interviews in the upper tier law firms.

Therefore, I would always recommend students do a double degree instead of straight law (so they have a fall back option) or go down the melbourne model route and do a bachelors before comleting a JD. This way you can get a taste of what a law degree entails before deciding if it is what you really want.

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