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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    If they tell you explicitly to address the letter to Graduate Recruitment and you don't address the letter to Graduate Recruitment, it will look like you can't read or follow instructions
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Any chance anyone here has done a Cleary VS?
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    My TC Journey 2022-23

    Thank you!! Believe me, I will do my very best! :)
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    My TC Journey 2022-23

    Well! Haven't posted an update here in a very long time! In November I managed to get a flurry of PFOs, then the flu, and then bronchitis, so I think after that I didn't post anything on the forum at all for around a month! My vacation scheme application cycle has pretty much come to an end, so...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Thank you so much!! Happily taking any and all advice or links to advice you or anyone else might have!
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Actually CANNOT BELIEVE I am saying this following a rejection from 11/13 of the vacation schemes I applied for (and a probable PFO from number 12 due to the timescale), but i just got a VS offer from Cleary after the AC yesterday!!!! it was the last vac scheme i applied for and my first AC, so...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I've found the opposite... couldn't apply for any winter vac schemes this cycle as they were all during term time (at UCL).
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I can't read TS as anything except Taylor Swift, this really confused me for a sec
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    no idea, sorry :( but I remember reading a post on here that said they would be getting back to people by end of february (not sure if that's for the spring scheme as I can't even remember which one i applied for!)
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Got a Sidley PFO post interview today... can't even join you with the party rings as I'm trying to be healthy and don't want to have negative progress in both my vac scheme applications AND my fitness today o_O
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I read on Chambers Student that they have about 15 spaces on each scheme ( https://www.chambersstudent.co.uk/sidley-austin/true-picture/54/1##bonus ) - and there are 4, so that would be about 60 vac schemers for about 15 places, 1 in 4 chance
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    did you get a phone call or an email?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    for reference, i also got a freshfields direct tc wg invite today and applied the day before the deadline in jan :)
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    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    day before the deadline!
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    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Also got a Freshfields WG invite
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    since application or since interview?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    post #11,000 on this thread! do i get good luck?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    waiting a week+ post interview is NOT it...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    🪄🪄🪄MANIFESTING GOOD NEWS FROM TOMORROW FOR PEOPLE WAITING POST INTERVIEW OR POST AC!!!!!!!!! 🪄🪄🪄
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    how long did people wait to hear back after an interview at Sidley? and was it by phone or by email?

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