A pretty average student from a tier 2 nlu which has a strong streak of students being selected for a vac scheme. My cv is pretty average: journal, committe, centre, semi final in a domestic moot, upcoming intl moot, semi finalist in a domestic adr, participant in an intl adr and my batch rank is right on the median. The only differentiating factor that I might have is being a part of the LGBTQ+ communnity
Do i even have a chance applying as an avg student or should I just build my CV towards domestic placements
How is being from lgbt community an advantage in strictly academic and legal sense? If you’re not special and you don’t bring anything of value to the table, your chances are super slim. And I’m saying this as someone who secured a TC @ HSF.
If someone from that community has reached the same position and achievements as another student, then the former might be preferred knowing that they had an additional hurdle to overcome given society's general stance towards them.
You don’t have any idea then. Being from a LGBT community will give you an edge to tell your story and even foreign universities look into this positively
in all fairness, they do look for diversity and I have heard of candidates with a more diverse backgrounds being chosen, but those same candidates also had really impressive ranks and were also from tier one nlus. ( while we can never know for certain, there were rumours that belonging to the lgbtq+ community played a role)
Your best shot at being chosen for a vac scheme from a tier two nlu is to have a cv that is genuinely impressive, and unfortunately the rank factor seems to be bit of an issue
Do i even have a chance applying as an avg student or should I just build my CV towards domestic placements
Apply
Tell your story
Go all out
If you fail you fail but one has to try
You learn from every failure anyway
Your best shot at being chosen for a vac scheme from a tier two nlu is to have a cv that is genuinely impressive, and unfortunately the rank factor seems to be bit of an issue