TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

[Erspencer]

If an email invite says "The deadline for completing this video interview is 7 calendar days from this email being sent", does the time at which you received the email matter? Or just the day? Trying to figure out if I have until the end of tomorrow or 10am tomorrow to finish it! Thanks!

For one I did earlier it was 7 days from the time of the email and I would always sit on the side of caution if you are unsure- better to be safe then sorry

 

[strugglepuddle]

Are you a penultimate year undergraduate? One of the most common reasons people will be unsuccessful is because they are not eligible for the programme.

Yep, I am. Here just hoping on hope haha

 

[ljms]

Is anyone waiting for a response from Akin post-app? I submitted quite late.

 

[saj2002]

Has anyone heard back from Taylor Wessing post-test?

Also, what did people think of the test? I just did it and was not a fan.

 

[hannah04]

anyone heard anything recently from BCLP post-test?

 

[SAlegal]

Could I ask which office you applied for?

London

 

[Trooper007]

Hi, does anyone have a list of open non-rolling schemes?

 

[leerow2468]

Has anyone done the McQuaig test for Trowers - I didn’t get a confirmation email and wanted to check if this was normal

 

[RonRod13]

for summer or winter?

Applied for both, idk whether the pfo was for winter or summer or both. It wasnt clear.

 

[legally.brown]

Applied for both, idk whether the pfo was for winter or summer or both. It wasnt clear.

can you actually do that? it didn’t ask me for spring or summer but i thought winter was different

 

[Jessica Booker]

Does anyone have experience reapplying to Covington after making it to final stages in the past? They say this on their website:

"Candidates who have previously applied, including those who have previously attended an interview, can reapply the following year. However, candidates must be able to demonstrate how their application has developed since they last applied to the firm."

Does anyone have advice for what they might expect? How much development are they expecting here?

I don’t know the firm, but understand the policy more generally. It’s difficult to measure what is a significant development, as it’s not measured by one thing. However, I think you as a candidate have to feel you are a very different candidate now compared to the last time you applied through the things you have done or achieved. You shouldn’t be rushing to reapply if you just feel you might get a little luckier with the process this time around.

 

[Jessica Booker]

If an email invite says "The deadline for completing this video interview is 7 calendar days from this email being sent", does the time at which you received the email matter? Or just the day? Trying to figure out if I have until the end of tomorrow or 10am tomorrow to finish it! Thanks!

I would count day one as the day you received the email, and then add on six more days from that up until 23.59 just to be safe. You probably could still access the assessment after then, but this just gives you the least riskiest approach when it comes to interpreting the timeline

 

[lawandtravels]

anyone heard back from Sidley? pfo? invite?

I heard back last week with an interview invite in the next two weeks

 

[IwantaVacSchemePlz]

I heard back last week with an interview invite in the next two weeks

When did u apply?

 

[lawandtravels]

anyone heard anything recently from BCLP post-test?

PFO last week

 

[lawandtravels]

When did u apply?

Very start of December, I think 3 or 4?

 

[Percypig12]

Anything from Vinson & Elkins post-app?

 

[danturner]

Has anyone heard from the following:

CMS post-VI (Dubai)
Addleshaw Goddard Spring post-app (London)
Baker Mckenzie Spring post-app (London)
Squire Patton Boggs post-app (London)
Macfarlanes spring post-app (London)

Quite a few but thanks

Did you apply directly for the Macfarlanes spring scheme? I could not find anywhere on the form to indicate a preference?

 

[allwillbewell]

For anyone who’s done an AC, how do prep for a written exercise? A bit stumped

 

[Yusuf391]

Has anyone heard back from Taylor Wessing post-test?

Also, what did people think of the test? I just did it and was not a fan.

Same here, the test was so difficult. The evaluation of argument section was particularly confusing with so many different options like strong, fairly strong, quite strong etc.