Hello I have a few questions about law studies (related), hope someone can help me out here...

I'm currently a STPM leaver waiting for results, and I'm aiming for either local u's or NUS (if my results are >3.8 then I'll give NUS a try). Here are the q's:

1) Must law students be the debate-ish type to succeed? I can (and love) to read and write, and generally tend to notice fine prints, but I've only debated twice inter-class and I wasn't the most confident or outstanding one (that was in form 6...before that in F5 i wanted to join inter class debate but my teacher rejected me for those 'already good ones', sigh)

2) For NUS law, besides the stellar results, if I didn't have any outstanding CCAs beyond school level will there be high chances that they won't even look at my application? Is there anything that I can put in the CCA and essay section that can be of some worth? Does the same criteria hold true of scholarship applications? Heard their law is super2 competitive.

I've been to an old folks home, a blind fellowship (we organized a Christmas play for them) and a refugee school before, but both were under church activities (meaning: no cert), and also this outdoor camp for uniformed bodies in school where there was a participation cert...I also write for a local webzine.

No spectacular achievement though.

*my fault lo, I didn't start young...only got active in form 4, but just ahli aktif, no national level stuffs...in form 6 I tried very, very hard to redeem myself, and got elected to quite a few top posts in school, but nothing beyond school, maklumlah my school is a kampung school, nice but not one of those schools. NUS seems to be fond of ppl who were in the Olympiads...

right now I'm interning for a law firm doing property/conveyancing law...good experience but this also means no time to do some national level stuff etc...*

3) For the UPU form, according to the new format, if I want to apply to research u's then I have to make a minimum of 8 choices (that's how I understand it...correct me if I'm wrong)...there's not enough law degrees in M'sia to make 8 choices lah..the remaining choices have to put other courses...as far as I know only UM, UKM, UUM and UniSZA got...UiTM forget it as I'm not Bumi...

* it can feel funny when one tells everyone that I want to do law but end up doing something else...it's like 'aiya, why I say it so fast?'

Thank you...and I'm sorry if there's too many unrelated stuff here ya...

thank you

especially when you said a lawyer must be hard working...lol from work, I've got to admit, want to be lazy also cannot xD just one quick question:

you said ... doesn't this statement contradict itself? (the general impression that I get from people about law = you've gotta be darn smart)