❄ Vacation scheme deadlines are being announced!

Winter Schemes
- Sidley Austin – Deadline: 12 September 2025 (Opens 1 August 2025)
- Paul, Weiss – Deadline: 28 September 2025 (Opens 4 September 2025)
Spring Schemes
- Willkie – Deadline: 10 December 2025 at midday (Opens 1 September 2025)
- BCLP – Deadline: 12 December 2025 (Opens 1 September 2025)
Summer Schemes
- BCLP – Deadline: 16 January 2026 (Opens 1 September 2025)
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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrei Radu" data-source="post: 185000" data-attributes="member: 36777">Hi [USER=32785]@ellabasing[/USER]! I would advise you not to keep them the same. Although getting an open day at Latham definitely involves one of the most competitive open day application processes, it is still significantly less competitive than getting on a vacation scheme. As such, recruiters generally hold your answers to higher standards when applying for the latter. Therefore, an answer that was good enough for an open day can be bellow what is required to be progressed in a VS application. As to how to make them different, I can think of three main ways:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Improved writing skill: I have noticed both in my own experience and in many other candidates' that as an application cycle progresses, you tend to improve your application-writing skills. As you write more and more and engage self-critically with an answer, as time passes you will begin to notice ways you could have improved it that you simply could not see in the beginning. Thus, by the time you have attended the open day and are getting started on the VS application, you might naturally reach a point where there are many things you want to include/exclude/rephrase/recontextualize/elaborate upon/shorten etc and thus end up with a very different answer.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Input from others: Sometimes, what it takes to improve is simply some input from others (this was definitely the case for me). If by the time you attend the open day you still cannot think of anything to change in your answer, it may be worth to ask some other people to review and comment on it. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Different related questions: The application form questions for the open day application and the VS application are quite different. Thus, after you start writing your answers to the VS questions, you might realise you want to discuss some experiences that you had previously included in the extracurriculars section. To avoid repetition, you will then have to change the set of experiences you discussed in the original open day extracurriculars section. This might once again lead you to want to expand on some experiences you were initially brief about, or include some that you initially didn't, etc. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Rephrasing: Assuming that you cannot see any way of improving your original answer and you also have no need to change the set of experiences you discuss, the final option is to keep the answer substantively the same and just rephrase it. You might find various online tools to help you with that. The point of this would be to avoid having your answer flagged by the system to the graduate recruitment team as an identical copy paste of the open day answer. This is not normally a good look, as some recruiters might infer a lack of effort/drive to furtehr improve on your part. </li> </ol></blockquote>

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