TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2026-27

[KH7192]

Same here weirdly

Same with me, not sure what to make of it. Deadline was yesterday so hopefully will have an answer soon...

 

[Maria56]

I missed out on putting a module and my grade (1st year) in an application, would it be worth emailing grad recruitment or does that make me seem like a non-meticulous applicant?

 

[DanTheMan]

For HLC applicants, how long after completing the first test were you sent the second. Am worried they won't submit the 2nd test before the final deadline for the WVS

 

[jamsparkle]

ugh firms need to start considering applicant's mental health...

I think it's so annoying that you could spend weeks writing a written application for, say, Latham, then ace the first sjt, then ace the second oa, and then ace in the video interviews over the couple of weeks it takes them to send you the two stages of the assessment, and then be thrown into limbo and then rejected 4 weeks later because the written application you started months ago was not good enough?

if it wasn't good enough after i've jumped through all the hoops you put down to thin out the candidate pool, it was never going to be good enough, and I get that grad rec is only human and can only get through so many applications but it's quite demoralising to know that there's a chance that all the time you're spending doing the same sjt over and over again for multi-round thinning processes at different firms is potentially for nothing if you were going to be rejected on the basis of the written application you did at the start anyway... at least with somewhere like freshfields it's just work experience that you should largely be able to copy and paste from other applications anyway

 

[rose06]

I missed out on putting a module and my grade (1st year) in an application, would it be worth emailing grad recruitment or does that make me seem like a non-meticulous applicant?

I think it might be worse if you don't email. I've heard stories of people having issues with their TC offers when grad rec found out that a person didn't put down one of their module grades. It might come up later and seem as if you purposely omitted it. Definitely email and don't worry, this happens to ppl!