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While I am entirely aware of nluj's calibre, stellar placements and mooting achievements, I've always been attached to the sheer prestige that schools such as nls and nalsar hold (which nluj simply does not have). I also incidentally happen to be a citizen of the UK, and am expecting around 98% in my board exams, thus making me eligible for the nalsar foreign national quota.
In my case, finances are not an issue (but parents do not believe in "quotas" And insist merit only), and I believe the hefty tuition is worth it for an institution of nalsar's stature. I'm committed to the hustle and am sure of my abilities to earn the money back.
My contention is whether nluj to nalsar is big enough of a jump to justify a 6x fees.
If you have to manage fee status games with the UK unis because of having lived abroad for a long while, come back to the UK, eat some humble pie (the tone of your post is such that it sounds like it'll do you some good) and do some job, frankly any job (many people don't go to uni immediately after school, and if you are really "committed to the hustle" instead of having an armchair commitment, you should know that law firms in the UK like people with extensive non-legal work experience) for a couple of years and then go to uni there when you have lived there long enough to fall back into their domestic tuition bracket. Frankly, if I were your parents, I'd rather spend the money on a UK education for you on merit than messing around here - from what you said, they have the resources. That would be a far better "hustle" than this total rubbish you have written. Really, sometimes the foolishness that people display has to be seen (or in this case, read) to be believed. OP, you should really thank your stars that this post is anonymous. There will come a time when the fear that one day the identity of its author will be discovered will be so accute that you will want nothing more than to look out over the White Cliffs of Dover and jump into the unknown, not caring where you land, merely to avoid the risk of becoming the object-of-ridicule-in-chief for Indian and British lawyers alike.
Alright, alright. Home truths now spoken. All persons gather around the picnic table and watch Uncle Albert do his magic tricks. Okay kid, will be more gentle. This may not be your fault. Knowing what pains-in-the-arse Indian parents can be, I can easily see a scenario where this total nonsense has been written by you because of circumstances rather than your own inclinations. If it's your parents who've gotten you into this, show them this response. Tell them that any logical person in the legal field who has seen your post would like nothing better than to find its writer and dox her or him to the rest of the world merely for its pleasure, and lunch and dine off that experience for the rest of their lives. Tell them that that's the advice of a friendly senior who doesn't want that, and who actually wants you and your parents to think if you are really "committed to the hustle", as you so glibly claim.
Damn kid, you really have committed one heck of a faux pas on here. This is the Legally India equivalent of getting drunk and kissing a law firm partner, of George Bush vomitting on the Prime Minister of Japan - and if your parents are really calling the shots on this as badly as what you say they are, it is as if Bush vomitted once on the Japanese PM and then twice more, on the Australian PM and on the CIA director - and you are sadly playing the part of Bush in that hypothetical (FFS NLUJ in this discussion!!!). Hope you don't have too much trouble picking up the pieces. If you do because of your parents forcing you into this stupidity, get them to directly type out a response to my response to your post and defend their logic.