do you have to take a certain A level to get into law school?

Answer 1

She will need 5 GCSE's A-Cs to get into Sixth form. Then I suggest when picking your choice of A-Level subjects, you play to your strengths as Law degrees (depending on which university you choose) usually demand high A-Level grades. If you go to a 'red brick' university they usually ask for AAA, AAB or ABB. Post 1992 Universities (former polytechnics) ask for BBB or BBC (like Leeds Met, London Met etc)

Have a look at some university prospectuses. They state the requirement of grades using a UCAS point system, i.e. BBB is 300 (A = 120 points,B = 100, C = 80 ) You can obtain this from their website.

Good A-Level subjects are English, Business Studies for example. You can take Law at A-Level if you want but this NOT a prerequisite.

I have not heard of any university who want certain A-Level choices. However considering your going to study quite a academic subject then try to go for a mixtures of academic A-Levels and maybe one 'creative' subject i.e. Music, Art or Drama if you have to at all.

I will be starting my final year on my law degree this September. I studied Business Studies, Economics and Law. My friends on the course studied such subjects as Science, Psychology, English Lit or Lang. So you can see a pattern emerging.

By the way you usually need minimum grade of grade C for GCSE Math and C for GCSE English to be accepted onto the course.

Good luck for the future.

Answer 2

Well we don't have law schools in the UK, but most normal universities will offer Law degrees.

Doy you have a specific university in mind?
What you need to do is look in some university prospectuses at law courses and see what A' levels they are asking for.

Answer 3

specific each and every regulation college demands a level to get in and approximately ninety% of your admissions would be based on your GPA/LSAT and a few scores you will in no way see approximately how they evaluate to different regulation pupils with comparable gpa's/lsats out of your college and others. extra importantly, you do not could pass to regulation college, college, or perhaps kindergarden to be a lawyer. some states (alongside with GA) require you to have a regulation degree, yet others (VA for specific) do not. VA only calls which you will pass the bar, and that they could require you to have apprenticed with an lawyer, yet no regulation college required. i think of they have 2 or 3 human beings each and every 5 years that try this in Virginia. Practially speaking you choose a level, and GPA is significant. although, while you're keen to pass to a 5th tier college, that's extra handy to get in.

Answer 4

Most universities do not set any prerequisite subjects with the usual exception of maths in maths based degrees and languages in language based. Law courses unless combined with modules that need previous study (such as maths or a foreign language) do not need any specific previous areas of study.

To best prepare for university study you will be expected to study a range of academic subjects. Students who have studied more academic subjects will be looked on better than those with mainly non-academic subjects; especially for subjects such as law. Below is a list of subjects not deemed by LSE (top non-Oxbridge university for law(guardian education)) to give effective preparation for study at the university, it will only accept one course from the list and would prefer none:
Accounting
Art and Design
Business Studies
Communication Studies
Dance/Theatre Studies*
Design and Technology
Drama/Theatre Studies
Home Economics
Information and Communication Technology
Law
Media Studies
Music Technology
Sports Studies
Travel and Tourism

So try to avoid these subjects when picking your choices. You will notice law is on the list, so if you do choose to study law at A-level then be aware you won't be able to pick any other from the list to take through to A2 level. For AS level they do not mind two from the list. While this list is from LSE the opinions are pretty much the same from university to university. If you stuck to subjects such as History, English, Maths etc. then you would not go far wrong.

Make sure though that you pick subjects you will be able to perform well in, and will enjoy studying. Do not make the very common mistake of picking subjetcs you think will look good if you cannot acchieve good grades in them. For instance Further Maths is often seen as a good A-level to have, if you take that and only get an E though, then this looks worse than an A in Computing (which is often not seen so highly as FM); so avoid at all costs making that mistake. An A in the eyes of the university is an A - as long as the subject is of academic nature then they generally carry equal weight. Studying a subject that is deemed by your peers a a tough subject will gain you no points with the universities, who are after people who get good grades.

If you want to go to one of the top universities for law (listed by the guardian as Oxbridge, LSE, KCL and UCL) you will usually be expected to have a minimum of 3 A grade A-levels, with a 4th good grade AS-level. The top universities do not tend to use the UCAS tariff, this means that if they say for example BBB is required at A-level then you must get that, with the UCAS tariff ABC would be equivalent. This means you must acchieve well in all your A-levels, and cannot allow a good performance in one to make up for poor performance in another; with universities that do use the tariff you can use a good performance ot make up for a poor one; these universities tend to be lower down the league tables.

To sum up, pick good academic subjects that you will be happy studying (or at least could tolerate) for two years and will be able to acchieve high grades in. Law is a competitive area to get into so you need to make sure you perform well.