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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jessica Booker" data-source="post: 115387" data-attributes="member: 2672">Some firms will have a strict AAB (or higher) requirement. However this is a minority of firms. In addition, those firms with a strict requirement will still consider mitigating circumstances and can look beyond the grades in situations where a candidate has clear circumstances that impacted their grades that can be verified by someone (eg your school/college or a medicinal professional).The RG status has no impact in the recruitment process at all. There are some reasons why more RG students are seen in city law firms:1) They are more likely to meet the A-level criteria2) They are more likely to be aiming for a career in the cityThe reason there isn’t a lot of Aberdeen graduates in city law firms is not a lot of Aberdeen’s graduates want to work in London. They end up staying in Scotland, either because they were born and raised there, or because they want to stay in the region after graduation.Plus, although the course you have identified is a dual qualifying degree, other law courses at Aberdeen aren’t and therefore, qualifying in the U.K. has historically been more difficult where students also needed to complete parts of the GDL (this is less relevant now due to the SQE but explains why historically there are fewer people).In comparison, York will have a fair number of the Home Counties who move away from home for uni, only to then want to aim for a career in the city, which for many will be a commutable distance from the towns and villages they grew up in.I have recruited trainees from Aberdeen. There hasn’t been a lot of them, purely because I haven’t seen a lot of applicants from Aberdeen. I’d be lucky to have 10 each year, while from somewhere like York, I’d probably have 80-100 a year (and from non-law students too). I can’t remember the last time a saw an application from a non-law Aberdeen grad, but will regularly see non-law applicants from York.So I don’t think going to Aberdeen will hinder your chances directly. But what is less likely, is there will be fewer law careers events on campus compared to York, and there will be fewer of your peers aiming for the same career as you. That doesn’t mean it is impossible, you just have to be a bit more determined to make your own opportunities happen , while at York many opportunities will just be there for you to take up.We also have a great member of our community [USER=5063]@Jacob Miller[/USER] who went to Aberdeen and has a TC with a city firm. You may want to send him a private message on here or via LinkedIn if you want more thoughts on how it was like for him at Aberdeen (if he doesn’t spot this and respond to this post).</blockquote>

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