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Recent content by simplyfaith

  1. simplyfaith

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Paul Weiss rejection post-test at 11:10. Finally, after 58 days. Good thing I don't like private equity. At least I won't have to be complicit with their Trump deal now! 🤣 (No comma in the name for you)
  2. simplyfaith

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    I had a dream I got a PW interview Am I cooked
  3. simplyfaith

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    One-to-one where you happen to hear other people's answers, exactly. It was similar to their CAC quarter-finals in that sense, actually. With that in mind, you could tailor your responses to stand out based on what others might've said before you (e.g. to avoid sounding like a carbon copy), but...
  4. simplyfaith

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    I did a group interview with them for their Astrazeneca work experience a while back. It was really strange (I also didn't get through 🤣). If it's anything like then, there are about four of you in a zoom call and they go around each person asking the first question, then the next, etc. The...
  5. simplyfaith

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    5 weeks since taking the test, surely they could let me know by now?!
  6. simplyfaith

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Orrick post-app rejection. Only Paul, Weiss and a 2 week economics course at Stanford to hear back from now 🤣
  7. simplyfaith

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    I know it said non-rolling on their website for direct TCs, though I'm not entirely sure for VSs. I mainly said that as I saw other people here getting the test ages ago!
  8. simplyfaith

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    I'm technically still waiting on Orrick post-app - I never even received the test. Pretty sure it's a rejection by now, though I don't know why they can't just tell me that 🤣
  9. simplyfaith

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Has anyone tried submitting an intentionally awful application, just to see if they would come back and say "while we were impressed with your application..." 🤣
  10. simplyfaith

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Some young people jump on the bandwagon of complaint because they want an easy life. To them, I have little sympathy. They make it difficult for everyone else to form a coherent argument. The bandwagon itself is very much real, though. Under-trained and over-worked in a broken economy...
  11. simplyfaith

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    omg I love the little hats
  12. simplyfaith

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    I'd feel the love a little more if Paul, Weiss stopped leaving me on read

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