Hey folks!

I need advise on the followings:

1. I'm taking: English/Math/Geog/ Economics / Globalisation as of now. Do you think this is a good combination and will allow me to score well ? (Apart from handwork and stuff.)

2. I'm in the midst of aiming for: University of Melbourne / University of B.Columbia / & universities in UK.

What are my chances of entering to the above with MUFY?

I'm planning to take Law / Business / Social Science / Psychology. (Order of preferences)

Many thanks for your replies!


Have a GREAT DAY ahead! (:

1. Very subjective. Varies from person to person.

2. Law is a competitive course and hence you need a competive qualification. Sad to say MUFY is not really on par with other widely recognised pre-U (say A-levels). You could probably get into Melbourne, but you will have a tough time getting into UK law school. Dunno about Canada though.

The legal profession has some unique regulation. So I would check to see if MUFY is an accepted pre-u qualification.

MUFY is not cheap and is university specific, why don't you do Canadian or Australian matriculation if you don't want to do A-level?

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Added on July 23, 2011, 7:45 pmLaw in Canada is a postgraduate degree. Cannot practise in Malaysia too......

This post has been edited by feynman: Jul 23 2011, 07:45 PM

With a decent to strong result, I'm quite confident that you'll be able to enter the University of Melbourne or indeed most other Australian schools (barring any silly problems like academic issues, because academics are really the only sort of serious requirement they have, and even then it isn't always very high for some courses - for Law and Psychology they should only be "above average" but for certain social sciences such as Economics, Econometrics, Statistics, or Actuarial Science they will be greater). Australian schools are actually very international-friendly, so MUFY (being Monash's program) would get you in easily.

Perhaps you haven't yet commenced the necessary checks, because the University of British Columbia only offers a JD, an LLM, and a PhD in Law. It's good to consider graduate destinations early, of course, but this is not relevant to your real (immediate) intentions.

Law in the UK is indeed quite competitive, but this really only matters if you're aiming for top dogs like Oxbridge, LSE, UCL, King's, and Warwick (for the standard A Level or IB student, the only real challenge is Oxbridge).

I cannot objectively comment on MUFY's competitivity or standards or how it compares to the A Levels, except that I study at a school which claims to be "one of the top universities in the world", and here we have students who come from everywhere and who've done one of A Levels, IB, UEC, SAM, MUFY, SATs and a plethora of other qualifications.

Of course, MUFY isn't the most universal qualification there is, but there is no question that you can get admitted to a school for Law in the UK - it's just that it may be harder if you're going for something in Britain's top 5. Economics at said schools is also highly competitive (note Oxford does not have straight Economics). Business, Accounting, Finance, Management etc are fairly easy to get into (again, Oxbridge will be the only real challenge for any course they have, unless you're doing Medicine which is competitive all over the place).

I'd suggest you to consult Mr. Mahesh about this... And well, i think it'll be on a case-by-case basis, which means you might need to have extra qualifications (e.g. IELTS, SAT) or etc. if you wanna enter Canada or UK (not to mention you need damn gung-ho scores la).

If you wanna study in UniMelb it shouldn't be a prob as Monash is under Group of 8 (the best 8 universities in Australia) - they recognise each others' foundation programs. But well, dude, good luck. I have friends who got offered to study in UK. after scoring 350.

Hi everyone!

Thank you so much for all your replies!

1. Yes, I understand that going to the Top 5 UK Unis is never easy. I guess I'll go there only if I do exceedingly well in my degree.

2. Canada law degree is not recognised in Singapore/M'sia. I have plans on going to UBC to do business/psychology/(whatever) if I fail to get into law in Oz.

3. I REGRETTED transferring from Ontario (Canada) to Melbourne. I have a friend who got an average of 65 for his OSSD and was offered law in Uni of Aberdeen.

Having an OSSD is very easy to get into the Canadian's Unis.

However, I dislike the school that I was attending back in Canada.

Going to UBC is partly influenced by the reputation , nice environment and most importantly, Linda Chung studied there before

Is the 'new generation' degree style good? I know the N.American Unis are following the 'new generation' degree and Uni of Melb is currently doing that too. I find it a waste of time. (esp if you were to do law.)

Any comments?

For law: get into an Oz unis , do well and move on to UK for further law studies.

For business: get into UBC/UniMel/Syd/ANU , do well and move on to London School of Economics.

Wells, at least that's my goals and plans.

Would really appreciate if folks here can guide me to achieving my goals.

Another bread and butter issue now is the courses that I'm taking in MUFY.

I seriously wonder if EL/Math/Geog/Globalisation/Economics will enable to score a high final MUFY marks as compared to combinations like : EL/Math/Globalisation/Economics/Accountings(IT)

Assume equal amount of handwork are put into the above courses. Reason why I'm thinking this way is that for Geog/Global and stuff , they're subjective marking and may vary as compared to Acc/IT.

1. Very subjective.

2. With good results, sure you can get in Melbourne or any university in Australia for that matter.
For Universities in other countries, it's either a clear "NO" or a "will be handled on a case-by-case basis". You need to contact the Universities directly and most would that doesn't give a "we do not accept MUFY" answer would ask you to apply when your done with MUFY and they'll consider it.

Be careful here, even though Australian LLBs (some universities) are recognised, MUFY might not be accepted as a recognised pre-u program by the Malaysian Bar. So you might end up with some problem later on in Malaysia. Don't go saying you can find a job in Australia or UK, that's not a reason to be not paying attention to this little bit of detail.

This post has been edited by feynman: Jul 25 2011, 11:44 PM

Not all Australian schools have Law at undergraduate level... while there exists an abundance of options in the UK.

ANU is reputable but its strength lies in the Arts, Humanities and some Social Sciences (Languages, Linguistics, Philosophy, Politics, Geography, International Studies, History, Sociology, Law), some of which LSE also excels at.

Melbourne would be stronger in Commerce/Economics/Statistics (LSE would beat Melbourne in these) although ANU is not far behind. If you really wanted to go to LSE and there were no special circumstances that would make you choose Australia instead, you should go to LSE.