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I think most people aren’t like this though in that despite them having an anonymous forum name, they do not go out their way to be nasty to people under the guise that they can get away with it. 🙂
If people go against the TCLA guidelines, then perhaps something like this could be initiated. I...
I think people would want to weigh up their options and by doing multiple VS and having multiple TC offers, they could then make a more informed decision. 🙂
I’m sure Cleary Gottlieb would make offers to everyone who ticks their boxes so I don’t think there would rly be anyone deprived of a...
@BreadandButter just curious as to why you have put ‘🤣’ under most of my comments and under comments of others over the past few hours.
Not sure what’s funny or amusing about people needing reasonable adjustments due to their neurodiversity or struggling with navigating the application cycle...
Nothing from Travers since the deadline but I think we should hear back over the next few weeks. 🙂
Not too sure about Sidley or Latham. Best of luck for all your applications! 🙂
I think on their website it says 6 per VS so 12 in total. I remember seeing someone say that Cooley received a lot of applications so it might be more this year on VS.
Oh right that makes sense. I don’t know how it works for Debevoise & Plimpton as I haven’t applied to that firm. I thought it would have been staggered. My bad. 🙂
I agree it is better to be transparent with each other for sure. Best of luck to everyone who has been invited to the open day/AC! 👌🏾
I think I did see someone say they have 3 open days so these invites may have just been for the first open day.
Best of luck for Debevoise & Plimpton! 🙂
Hopefully. I think they will assess applications alongside test scores. Not sure if they will take into account each individual pillar or just consider the overall ‘score’. I got 7566 in them so hoping that is okay. I think our scores add up to 24/36 which is 66-67%. 🙂
Best of luck for Paul...
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