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Many parents always ask the question – what kind of summer internship is helpful in their kids’ application for Law in universities?
Apart from excellent academic results, “law” requires students to have good language skills – oral, reading or written, communication skills, analytical power – the ability to distinguish the nuance between two similar scenarios, and logical deduction power. The academic subjects taken by the kids at school as well as the ECA they take would provide such trainings to them. But still not all of them could stand out in their applications with Oxbridge, LSE, UCL, HKU, CU etc. Parents would ask why that is.
One of the crucial point is “to show your passion in law” to your admission tutors. If you can show your passion in law, I think you will rise above the application queues.
Related working experience in law firms may show you have some understanding about a law firm and what is handled by the law firms. But it may not be sufficient to show your passion.
I remember one year prior to my son’s application for law, he spent several days in court to hear the application of an old lady for a judicial review to stop REIT from floatation. He also spent several days in a magistrate court and district court to hear some trials during summer.
In writing his personal statement why he is interested to study law, he wrote something that he had spent some time in court to hear cases. He found Hong Kong was quite special because an old lady could stop the Government from making the REIT – of value HK$30 billion from going public. He wanted to know and learn the legal theory. He also wrote the difference in the trial process between someone who was represented by lawyers and someone who was not. He could see justice could be adequately done if a lawyer could help in the criminal trial. The sense of justice would influence his decision to take law as his career.
His academic results were not particularly strong when compared with his fellow classmates who also applied for law. At the end of the day, he received offers from 3 colleges in London and one from top 15 law colleges. He was pooled for Cambridge but was unsuccessful. The offers were amazing. I think the difference was he could show his passion in law to the admission tutors.
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