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<blockquote data-quote="Gill M" data-source="post: 13555" data-attributes="member: 3141"><p>Hi everyone - first post on this forum!</p><p></p><p>I'm going into my second year at uni, so I'm starting to look online for advice as to my chances of securing a vacation scheme. While lurking, among all the very useful threads on TheStudentRoom, I came across this one: <a href="https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6105646" target="_blank">https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6105646</a>.</p><p></p><p>For those that don't have the time to read it, the author seems to have gathered data from law firms' diversity reports over the past few years, and put them in a table. It seems that, particularly for the 'top' commercial law firms, the percentage of trainee and associate solicitors who went to a private school is much higher than the UK average (which is either 7% or 12% depending on how you measure it). This is particularly true if we assume that the people educated overseas all went to private school. Some of the firms have 'private school' figures of over 50%!</p><p></p><p>Coming from a fairly average state school background, I'm quite worried that, despite all the social mobility initiatives, my application will be at a disadvantage because of either my school status or the polish/grades of those who went to private school. I'm also worried about not fitting in and getting on with my colleagues if/when I do get a TC!</p><p></p><p>I had a few questions (for anyone still reading :/)</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Are these figures more or less in sync with what you've personally seen on vac schemes, training contracts, etc.?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Do you think that these figures have changed since the reports were published? A lot of the data seems to have been collected in 2017 or 2018</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Do you have any ideas as to why privately-educated individuals are over-represented at these firms?</li> </ol><p></p><p>Thanks!!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gill M, post: 13555, member: 3141"] Hi everyone - first post on this forum! I'm going into my second year at uni, so I'm starting to look online for advice as to my chances of securing a vacation scheme. While lurking, among all the very useful threads on TheStudentRoom, I came across this one: [URL]https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6105646[/URL]. For those that don't have the time to read it, the author seems to have gathered data from law firms' diversity reports over the past few years, and put them in a table. It seems that, particularly for the 'top' commercial law firms, the percentage of trainee and associate solicitors who went to a private school is much higher than the UK average (which is either 7% or 12% depending on how you measure it). This is particularly true if we assume that the people educated overseas all went to private school. Some of the firms have 'private school' figures of over 50%! Coming from a fairly average state school background, I'm quite worried that, despite all the social mobility initiatives, my application will be at a disadvantage because of either my school status or the polish/grades of those who went to private school. I'm also worried about not fitting in and getting on with my colleagues if/when I do get a TC! I had a few questions (for anyone still reading :/) [LIST=1] [*]Are these figures more or less in sync with what you've personally seen on vac schemes, training contracts, etc.? [*]Do you think that these figures have changed since the reports were published? A lot of the data seems to have been collected in 2017 or 2018 [*]Do you have any ideas as to why privately-educated individuals are over-represented at these firms? [/LIST] Thanks!!!! [/QUOTE]
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