Hi I'm a long time lurker and wanted to put some questions since I recently finished my VCE exams and thinking a lot of my choices for universities for 2007. I'm not completely clued into the law concept since I used to think that I wanted nothing to do with it only to find out that it was probably the only thing that I wanted to do without whinging. However I'm still completely new to the Law concept overall compared to people who have already researched on it so I really need the help.
Nonetheless working overseas is a large dream of mine, I even asked a careers counsellor about studying overseas and she flat out told me that I'd never be able to and no one is able to. I didn't think much of it afterwards since I had my own problems to deal with but now I still continually think about my aim to study/work overseas.
With that said, what is the best way to approach this? I am only going to Victorian universities so the choices are the general Monash, Deakin, Melbourne.
I actually gravitated to Deakin a bit as it had a compulsory overseas fourth year study and it sounded kind of fun above all. And as well I wanted to combine Law/International Relations so I could try for their 6 month US Congress internship program. And as well I don't really expect to get a clearly in for the law in Melb/Monash so I felt that at least if I entered Deakin there was the stable guarantee that I was studying law. However I am very unsure about their Arts program and I have a really strong concern for the Arts program (I'm not just doing it for the sake of hur hur double degrees). And I really don't want to miss out on what some people got to do with their Arts programs in other places.
Melbourne is pretty much "the" place for all the people who think traditional courses. However I know there are changes on the new program which refuse internal transfers or something like that? I'm not too sure so I'd like to know more about that. Though I have had two older siblings who have been to Melbourne (one graduated, the other is in her third year) and they still feel that it's a bit disappointing since it doesn't really offer any more than any other uni overall. Additionally if there are no internal transfers, I'd rather not do Arts and *then* Law because of the whole lack of HECS in the graduate degrees (I think that's what they said. Please correct me if I'm wrong).
And Monash, I heard that it's easier to do an Arts and transfer into Law. I have a bit of familiarity with the Arts program as I have another sibling (we're a big family) who did Monash Arts. As well I've heard about the Monash humanitarian programs which has me extremely interested. Apart from that it has the run of the mill things and it's hard to deny that Monash Law isn't a terrible choice.
Lastly I did do Enhancement Literature at University of Melbourne which I have been told can count as credits to the completion of my degree in most universities.
Nonetheless I hope you guys can help me in my choices with advice and as well help direct me on how I should choose to study in my degree to help me move towards the international route.
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