TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

[Lissa06]

everyone who's applied for SPARK, my application portal says "archived". anyone know what this means?

hey! may I ask where exactly it says so? I do not see that for myself, I only see the progress bar that is still on the 'in review' circle. Also, when did you apply? maybe they have processed you before me, since I sent out the app on the 14th February - pretty late

 

[Harvey Specter - Presiding Partner]

How did everyone do in the Ropes Thrive assessment? - I completely flopped it. I wonder how much they take the results into consideration

I thought there wasn’t a test worse than the CC or Orrick WG. Then I took Ropes’ Thrive test…

I think it’s just used to feed into the questions we get asked during the partner interview tbh.

I don’t think it influences post AC decisions tbh but who knows anything could happen.​

 

[TortillaTC]

I thought there wasn’t a test worse than the CC or Orrick WG. Then I took Ropes’ Thrive test…

I think it’s just used to feed into the questions we get asked during the partner interview tbh.

I don’t think it influences post AC decisions tbh but who knows anything could happen.​

Tbh I still can’t tell if Orrick’s WG was that bad or I was overthinking every single question

 

[Lord Sumption]

Any news from Morgan Lewis post Telephone Interview yet from anyone?

 

[Gr33ntea]

Has anyone who got the CRS holding email or has completed the VI for london heard back yet?

 

[amb303]

Has anyone who got the CRS holding email or has completed the VI for london heard back yet?

Last year VS offers seemed to go out on a couple different days in March over a week apart

 

[yasmars]

How did everyone do in the Ropes Thrive assessment? - I completely flopped it. I wonder how much they take the results into consideration

I could be wrong but the way I think about it is that if you had an amazing interview with brilliant commercial awareness etc but scored lower on the assessment, it would be silly of them to not give an offer based on that.

Alternatively, if you did amazingly on the test but did not do strongly on the other parts of the AC, it feels nonsensical for them to give an offer based on a good test score. I think the test is probably used when deciding between two strong candidates or so.

 

[Jessica Pearson - Managing Partner]

Has anyone done a HL interview before?

 

[Cristiano Ronaldo sui]

Anyone had their ropes ac today?

 

[InterestInPublicLaw]

The Browne Jacobson test deadline is in a few hours and I just realised from the forum it’s 3 instead of 2 questions wtf - I’m still not done with Q1

 

[Hanzeeb]

The browne jacobson test actually drained the life out of me

 

[InterestInPublicLaw]

The browne jacobson test actually drained the life out of me

Lollll we were posting at the same time good luck to us

 

[Donna Paulsen]

The Browne Jacobson test deadline is in a few hours and I just realised from the forum it’s 3 instead of 2 questions wtf - I’m still not done with Q1

Me when the third question popped up x

 

[InterestInPublicLaw]

Me when the third question popped up x

Lucky you did it earlier! But why did they do this to us it’s not the difference in the no of pre recorded video interview questions it takes like at least 2 hours for a great answer

 

[Donna Paulsen]

Lucky you did it earlier! But why did they do this to us it’s not the difference in the no of pre recorded video interview questions it takes like at least 2 hours for a great answer

Yeah I spent like half an hour at least on each. Surely it’s going to take grad rec ages to go through everyone’s responses

 

[TheSaulGoodman]

Are many people still waiting to hear back from Russell Cooke post app?

 

[InterestInPublicLaw]

Are many people still waiting to hear back from Russell Cooke post app?

Got rejected post app for vac scheme

 

[InterestInPublicLaw]

Yeah I spent like half an hour at least on each. Surely it’s going to take grad rec ages to go through everyone’s responses

Good for you! You’re so much more efficient hahaha

 

[adf43256]

Are people still progressing past the job sim for Hogan Lovells summer VS?

 

[futuretraineeihope]

@futuretraineeihope i saw u liked this post - have u heard back?

Sorry!! i liked it by accident! I didn’t apply.. so sorry for the confusion