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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

lawstudent2

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Are these for the 4th/5th slots? Did the WE but am yet to hear back - hoping they send in batches haha!
yes the only options were the 4/5th so I wld be v confident that they are doing batches
I did the WE nearer the start of last week as well and she said during the call that we would be likely to hear back earlier just because we did it earlier so I definitely wouldn't loose hope
 

balegde

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yes the only options were the 4/5th so I wld be v confident that they are doing batches
I did the WE nearer the start of last week as well and she said during the call that we would be likely to hear back earlier just because we did it earlier so I definitely wouldn't loose hope
Ah okay thank you!! I did it on Friday afternoon so fingers crossed!
 
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silonthesofa

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Gosh this PW PFO is really frustrating, especially bcoz I got through at their open day stage in September and did exactly what they told us to do in our application. WHAT MORE DO THEY WANT!!! For context I have a 2.1 from Oxbridge non-law. Is it that I don't have a first??
I had a similar feeling with HSF Kramer. Got onto their open day so figured my CV was alright, did everything they instructed us to do, passed the online assessment, and then PFO. So what I personally suspect happened was that my open day application was assessed by someone junior in the team and when the vac scheme application came around, it went to another person and I got shafted.

The frustrating part of it though is that their open day application is a full on, full CV with written answers application, so by that point, you already knew everything about me. So if my inconsistent undergrad record with mitigating circumstances wasn't going to be good enough at the application stage, why clear me for the open day...
 

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