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I applied at the beginning of December last year and heard back in January, so it took about 1.5 months with the holidays in between. They do hire the majority of their trainees from their VS though and they are running 3, with the first one starting on Monday. My best guess is that they will start responding to applicants after the first VS when they have a better idea of how many places there are left and also have the bulk of the prep work for this out of the way.