My opinion may seem biased but I will try to be impartial as possible.

Fee structure: - Regardless of how rich you are, the fee structure will always be an issue in terms of decision-making. GNLU is bloody expensive, one of my juniors mentioned that it’s apparently 14k USD 💀 for just the tution fees. NUJS on the other hand, has an advantage as the total course fee won’t exceed 45-50 lakhs over the course of your duration. The ROI will be automatically a bit better

Placements: - I always keep on saying this that NUJS has an exceptional placement record. It has a slight edge over GNLU in terms of domestic placements, still, the difference is quite marginal. Plus within the T-1 NLU cohort, there isn’t much of a difference with regards to placements.

Scholarships: - GNLU wins hands down here, you will get a variety of academic scholarships, they have a separate scholarship dedicated to litigation and most importantly some of them don’t even need the income criteria. NUJS lacks a concrete scholarship which can dampen your chances of motivation, considering you are the NRI-S student.

Infrastructure: - As I have heard from my pals, the NUJS BH isn’t that pathetic. It’s tolerable, some rooms are nice while some other rooms are comparatively pale. The GH is terrible btw, however, from the second year everything gets sorted. My biased mentality will creep in here. Please don’t choose a college based on Infra, doesn’t make complete sense. If you are really into luxury, then GNLU can’t offer that either, some rooms are still cramped up.

Location: - Gandhinagar is growing, no doubt about it. But, again by the time you graduate, you are still gonna be hopped up on Kolkata as nujs is still stable and it’s anyway in the heart of Cal.

Final verdict: - Nujs wins, considering your situation, I still feel nujs makes more sense compared to GNLU, although again the difference between them is marginal. Yet for a NRI-S candidate, nujs is proving to be more fruitful.

Your comment about NUJS being in its sunset is absolutely true and reminds me of the scene in Pulp Fiction between Marsellus and Butch. I advise all law aspirants to see this scene and choose GNLU: not only ahead of NUJS but also NALSAR. Link and transcript below.

“I think you’re gonna find – when all this shit is over and done – I think you’re gonna find yourself one smiling motherfucker. Thing is Butch, right now you got ability. But painful as it may be, ability don’t last. Now that’s a hard motherfucking fact, but it’s a fact of life your ass is going to have to get realistic about. This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic motherfuckers who thought their ass would age like wine. If you mean it turns to vinegar, it does. If you mean it gets better with age, it don’t. Besides Butch, how many fights you think you got left. Two? Boxers don’t have an old timer’s league. You came close but you never made it. And if you were gonna make it you would have made it by now.”

“Now the night of the fight you might feel a slight sting. That’s pride fucking with you. Fuck pride. It only hurts, it never helps. Fight through that shit because a year from now when you’re kicking it in the Caribbean, you’re gonna say Marsellus Wallace was right.”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c1q2PitIM9w

I was part of the orientation programme myself. I heard Professor Anirban say that clearly. Even the VC has mentioned that the electives for BSc are going to be different. They aren't going to get corp electives at all, only science and criminology stuff. In that case, firms will obv prefer the BA students.

Quite wrong. There have been no such statements from either the Vc or the profs.

In fact the SJA made it clear this year that nobody from either bsc or ba will be denied any placement because of their batches.

Please do not comment nonsense when you have no idea of the ground situation.

What wonderful delusions of grandeur.

Truthfully no one wants to resolve disputes in India, given the protectionist laws, uncertainty in enforcement, and time involved.

Unfortunately the government and bureaucracy can't read the room. This is going to be a spectacular failure!

Where they are coming from is probably how any minority feels when they are sexually shunned. But they should not have said that to you. Personally, I had a wake up call when a friend pointed out that the people I seem to prefer are all upper caste, but they just observed it without calling me casteist. The observation made me reflect and over time change.

You'll do fine OP. It can be difficult to filter out emotions triggered by other people's lashing out and it is human to want to protect oneself. You are already getting there. Remember that you can work to understand why they are angry and where they are coming from without presenting yourself as a target for their anger. I think you are a kind person that hope that you run into more people who see and value your kindness.

Yes he was one of the youngest and best partners of AMSS. He quit his partnership to go into academics at an Eminent law school - National University of Singapore Faculty of Law and is one of the greatest professors there. He is one of the greatest corporate lawyers the country has seen.

I'm tired of paying hefty taxes for 3rd grade Infrastructure in Mumbai. Freebies diye jare hai.

Bjp along with eknath shinde and devandra fadnavis gave 0 fucks about the 14 victims in the Billboard accident due to storms and, shamelessly held a rally in the same area of Mumbai. Stalled metros and daily commuters, caused traffic and people were stuck for hours. If this is who are leader is going to be then we need to do better.

So it's definitely not NaMo. It's a No from me.

Don't agree with your point number 2. I'm from Mumbai University and not from GLC. Still I got placed in a tier 1 with no contacts or recommendations.

I did internships from my 1st year itself. Easily cracked the interview as well. College doesn't matter, skills do. Ofcourse, I have faced competition from nlu students but my friends at GLC and ils have had the same experience as me. Firms have stopped preferring GLC and ils.

Pro tip- GLC/ils/ Mu is not hard on academics. So if one desires to do that avoid MU and ils at all costs and prefer SLS or NLU.

If gender dysphoria is a mental condition and it requires medical treatments like surgeries and hormones, then why on earth is talk therapy not appropriate?

Poor intersex people- being lumped in with the TQ lot is gonna spell ruin for them. Having disorders of sex development is not a mental condition- its a physical one.

Let me start by apologizing for the length of this response. Considering what you have had to overcome, you clearly aren't someone who expects simple answers in life, therefore be ready to read a textbook example of whatever the exact opposite of a simple answer is. Just a caveat, I can't speak to how American/Singaporean law schools handle such cases, but having been educated in England at the LLB level myself and as someone who is going to start an LLM there in September, I can speak to an extent about the implications there. Consider the following points:

1. Some unis I recall applying to (forget which ones, as extenuating circumstances wasn't something I had to consider) said on their websites that they have a presumption that extenuating circumstances have been taken into account by your law school examiners when evaluating your work. Nevertheless, because of your overall grades and CGPA/percentage, especially the higher grades, I would say that there is no problem in applying, mentioning your conditions and explaining how they impacted your performance, especially if they impacted your performance in courses relevant to your intended specialisation. This is because you have achieved what we would call 'distinction', or a 'first class' (at the undergraduate level), in the UK. If you look at most websites, they ask for either a '2:1' or a 'good 2:1'. The complicating factor, obviously, is the courses in which you achieved disappointing results. Emphasize particularly on anything that shows you overcoming these circumstances. Regarding the first one, you should know something about the exam regulations of British universities and what they consider to be extenuating circumstances for their own students taking degree exams, as they are likely to apply a similar thought process to your application. They usually consider circumstances that are beyond a student's control and that impact before an exam. So regarding (1), their response is likely to be, 'Are you asking us to believe that students who come from families whose income is below a certain threshold are less likely to perform well academically?', which obviously isn't good (considering that many of them love to thump their chests on what is called a 'social mobility' ranking, i.e., what percentage of their students from the bottom 20% income bracket of British society end up graduating from one of these places with a job whose salary is such that they would fall into the top 20% income bracket). Regarding health conditions etc., they also usually only take into account an accute episode that has impacted students prior to an exam, because the assumption is that long-term illness can be managed - so usually something unexpected like an illness suddenly getting worse, despite you taking all the prescribed medications or whatever. Many British unis also operate, for their own students, what are known as 'fit-to-sit' policies, i.e., a presumption that if you attended an exam and wrote it, you were at the top of your form, and therefore deserved the marks you got (a presumption that is rebuttable by something like illness during an exam). Their question is likely to be, 'Why did this person even sit an exam if they were ill? Why didn't they apply for extenuating circumstances on medical grounds from their own uni?'.

2. UCL, for example, requires an average of 65% across all years of your degree. They are willing to relent to the extent of 62%, if the candidate shows good "motivation" in their SOP. Is this something you are able to demonstrate? Despite your current CGPA, this may be a complicating factor.

3. You may want to ask your referees (those who write your recommendation letters) to write about anything they know about the impact of your circumstances on your performance. If your referees ask you anything about it, tell them, would be my advice. I know this is delicate, but not holding back is my suggestion. Another complicating factor is that King's doesn't want references, and doesn't allow you to provide them on their LLM application, therefore all you have to say about ECs has to be done in your SOP.

4. While they would be interested to know how you are doing relative to your classmates, they are, from my experience, more likely to give greater importance to marks.

PS: I don't wish to discourage you, but even an Oxbridge LLM these days is no golden ticket to a foreign law firm job, if that is your aim. Remember, in terms of vacation schemes and training contract applications, British LLB students have had three (sometimes as many as four) years to develop the knowledge, experience etc. required to navigate this job market that you will have only one year to develop, meaning you will have to be that much more adaptable, that much more resilient. And if that wasn't enough, you may be ineligible for some firms' vacation schemes, meaning you would have to directly apply for their training contracts (Freshfields Brukhaus Deringer, for example, has a vacation scheme which would be out of bounds for you as an LLM student in the future, something I have heard from the lips of one of their Grad Rec team). This isn't to say that you can't develop it or that the task is impossible, but it is definitely going to be difficult, even if you land an LLM acceptance. In this culture, students often collaborate in groups of three or four to tackle vacation scheme or TC applications. You'd be well advised to join your uni law society if you end up at a British uni for an LLM and get to know some LLB students who can help you navigate the system. And just to be clear, I personally know a fellow Indian (LLB) student at my own uni who seemed to have all the cards stacked against himself medically (including bad luck in having a sergical operation fail), but he still secured a training contract at a top American law firm's London office, only a few months later than he had intended.

Low income - maybe for scholarship. Not for admission unless you had to work while you studied.

Mental illness - yeah- but it’s tricky. There are definitely admissions officers and professors who will be wary of taking on a student who is not currently and for the future term in a stable condition. They want to make sure you can handle course work and graduate. If you can show how you’ve grown and learned to handle your mental illnesses - then yes.

They consider your rank. Evaluation standards vary so much institution to institution that it’s hard to trust a gpa.

My advice for anyone worried about not getting in after applying is to apply anyway. Worst they Can say is no. And you can apply the next year if they do. Don’t find reasons to disqualify yourself.

51.63% of candidates failed in AIBE 18 exam, reveals RTI reply
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AIBE 18: 1,44,014 candidates appeared for the exam of which 74,368 failed, responded BCI to an RTI plea.

As per the response to a Right to Information filed by Shibu Babu, 1,48,781 students appeared for the exam held on December 10 last year. 74,368 candidates failed the test while over 4,700 were absent. BCI declared AIBE 18 result 2024 on March 26, 2024.

Source - https://news.careers360.com/51-63-percent-of-candidates-failed-in-aibe-18-exam-bci-reveals-rti-reply

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AIBE Exam or All India Bar Exam is literally an open book exam. Even a non lawyer could write the exam. There is no need to study. It's easier than any LLB subject exam.

How is it possible that 51% of candidates fail in the exams?

Are they from fake colleges?

How did they pass LLB if they end up failing in AIBE?

Most LLB subject exams require some prep whereas AIBE doesn't require anything?

Livelaw is reporting that Sibal has won the SCBA election: https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/kapil-sibal-elected-as-president-of-supreme-court-bar-association-258143

Therefore I don't think we can say that SCBA election is a microcosm of national election

It seemed like the original person who posted it wanted accurate figures, there are figures which are available on different threads and vary in small numbers. So unless the person is getting a job, there's no point in asking such questions. He/she will know the exact figures.