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(3) Allen & Overy interview (vacation scheme):Whenever people told me that all case studies are common sense and all I should do is use that common sense, it felt too abstract a piece of advice. Until the Allen & Overy case study, which required knowledge (so thank god it wasn't my first AC!), but which really also needed you to be rational. I would say that what helped lots was: investopedia (for terminology + any maths I needed to know how to do), the FT (to build up a "database" of what companies focus on when pursuing a deal/fending off a bid/facing antitrust issues) and consulting interviews case study prep. With the latter, you do have to be careful to not only prep for what a consulting interview would be like - but it was the only way I could think of to practice forming a proposal. Nevertheless, I think I made the mistake of trying to have thought of allllll the possible issues that could come up in a deal or whatever case study and I think that made a bit too rigid, especially at Allen &Overy. It is also worth noting that you never know what the case study will be, which I know you know but, again, I think that for many science grads who have spent a long time in academia: you really try to predict what it will be because this part of an AC is so much out of your comfort zone.
(3) Allen & Overy interview (vacation scheme):
Whenever people told me that all case studies are common sense and all I should do is use that common sense, it felt too abstract a piece of advice. Until the Allen & Overy case study, which required knowledge (so thank god it wasn't my first AC!), but which really also needed you to be rational. I would say that what helped lots was: investopedia (for terminology + any maths I needed to know how to do), the FT (to build up a "database" of what companies focus on when pursuing a deal/fending off a bid/facing antitrust issues) and consulting interviews case study prep. With the latter, you do have to be careful to not only prep for what a consulting interview would be like - but it was the only way I could think of to practice forming a proposal. Nevertheless, I think I made the mistake of trying to have thought of allllll the possible issues that could come up in a deal or whatever case study and I think that made a bit too rigid, especially at Allen &Overy. It is also worth noting that you never know what the case study will be, which I know you know but, again, I think that for many science grads who have spent a long time in academia: you really try to predict what it will be because this part of an AC is so much out of your comfort zone.
