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Advantages/disadvantages of ANU when applying for Melbourne law positions

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Duck:
Yeah floral I'm pretty much certain that I'll stay in Melbourne if I get into law but the question is if I don't get into monash should I go to UMelbourne on the chance that I'll get into the JD or do I go to Canberra. Also, I've heard nothing but good things about deakin, particularly the business faculty so I would definitely consider it over LaTrobe.

florallover:
it's going to be almost impossible to get into melbourne jd unless you get 99.9+, or unless you are actually amazing during your undergrad years. there are 100 places and 20 of those are already promised, i personally know of 6 who intend on taking those places. and i think anyone who got over 99 is promised a full-fee place. then you get a lot of people from interstate, other countries, and plain old other universities who are going to apply, many of whom will already be mature-aged/have relevant life experience. apparently this is a controversial topic here though.

though have you considered applying for jd interstate? nobody else needs LSAT. sydney uni arguably has the most prestigious law school, and its entrance is 75% uni marks 25% ATAR. unsw is 100% uni marks. also, monash is uni marks and an application/interview... and its postgrad law is taught in the city apart from the first 9 weeks. you might find you really excel in undergrad and find what aspect of the law you're interested in, or discover that you didn't want to do law in the first place.

don't know anything else about deakin except that its science is terrible, heh. arts is apparently okay.

ninwa:
Thanks for pointing out my mistake :-[ I'm going blind.

All I know about Deakin is that they are very business-law focused - for example taxation law is apparently compulsory (I don't think it's compulsory in any other uni)

Duck:
floral, that's all stuff that i will consider if i don't get into law at ANU because at the moment, even if it is easier to get into Sydney Uni than Melb, i would still rather definitely get a law degree at ANU (assuming i get the marks to get in) than have a chance to do postgrad somewhere, as long as an ANU law degree gives me similar employment prospects. Also, is there really only 100 places in the JD at Melb? I would have thought they would increase it by alot starting next year due to next year being the first year of applicants who never had the chance to do undergrad law (at Melbourne.) Surely they were taking more than 100 undergraduate law students in other years, why would they drastically reduce the number of places in their law degree like that? They would still have the infrastructure to take as many JD places as they did undergrad law 3+ years ago.

Eriny:
It may or may not be relevant, but ANU's law speciality is international law (which may be why its compulsory?).

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