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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    You were given the pistol. Shoot it. The worst thing that can happen is them saying no
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    especially when it's just a copied email anyway
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Yayyyy, official Freshfields PFO. No more hopelessly waiting
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    ikr I set the notification volume to the max for the mail app, which scared the baby Jesus out of me whenever there was a ding. But turned out that was a mail from Legal Cheek telling me to apply to a firm that just rejected me =)))))
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Clifford Chance. Their VS is only for 1st year law or penultimate non-law
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I haven't got a VI yet so I just assumed a PFO anyway
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Holding onto your hand
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Has anyone not get a Kirkland VI after application? Should I assume it wouldn't come anyway?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Wait, really??? Are you sure it is 29th Feb and not 29 Jan 😀😀😀
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I think only those who applied for spring got AC invites. I applied for summer but haven't got anything besides an email thanking me for my patience and said that they would get back to me by the end of the month
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Does anyone know if Kirkland would continue sending out new batches of VI or the one last week was the end of it
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    To be honest, we are the same so I don't think I'll have a lot to advise to you. But what I can tell you is that, particularly for Freshfields where hope is pretty much gone, is to accept the fact that we fail. It's gonna be ugly but if you face it directly, suddenly you will feel light as a...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Well at least it was a closure for the rest of us. Good luck with your AC
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Sending warm hugs. I was feeling the same after a whole day waiting for Freshfields. It's just so hard sometimes to wake-up from a nap and your nightmare is still there. I think all we can do right now is to go outside for some oxygen to clear our mind and treat ourselves to a warm meal. All the...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I might just give up hoping on Freshfields post WG. I mean their AC starts in 3 days and it's radio silence
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Perhaps they are trying to get, idk, the top 100 candidates that will go to the next round which means they will have to wait for all
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I don't think we should. I remember some ppl only getting their WG on Tuesday and they should get 3 days to complete it (which mean the dl is tomorrow morning.) Maybe Freshfields is waiting for those ppl result before getting back to us
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I don't know for sure but I think it will be logical for them to do the same
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Last year they invited about 120 for 60 spots on SPARK. This year, it seems that they only have 30 spots for SPARK so I guess 60 are invited
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Has anyone haven't heard back from Freshfields after WG

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