TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

[rachl_shep]

yes honestly that would make sense! best of luck to you

You too! All will be well

 

[henry1050]

Does anyone know how long Wither's takes to get back after the final stage interview for SVS?

 

[Sr. Maybe]

Has anyone heard back about which scheme (Spring or Summer) they've chosen for AG?

 

[alanshore]

when did you apply if I may ask? mine doesn't say that, but maybe they haven't gotten to mine yet - I applied like on the 14th February I believe

it appears as archived for me and I applied on the due date

 

[rachl_shep]

it appears as archived for me and I applied on the due date

Oo that is confusing then. Has anyone had any emails from clifford chance yet?

 

[Jennifer2003]

Is it worth applying to white and case’s DTC without having done a vac scheme yet?

 

[alanshore]

Oo that is confusing then. Has anyone had any emails from clifford chance yet?

Someone last year said that the 'archived' tag is because it is an inactive posting, as the deadline has passed. Either that or PFO.

 

[ella123]

Hi! Does anyone have insights into the Linklaters vacation scheme? What do they assess / what tasks are we given / how is the final interview? And what are the conversion rates? Thank you

 

[whywhy88]

Any news from Sidley for summer recently?

 

[thepfocollector]

Has anyone heard back from CRS?

 

[tc2026]

wfw vi for dtc. any advice would be really useful, tysm : )

 

[tc2026]

Is it worth applying to white and case’s DTC without having done a vac scheme yet?

I think its still always worth applying as you never know

 

[legallybrunnette]

Hi everyone I just finished my interview for a vacation scheme and I wanted your thoughts on something. At the end, she mentioned that ultimately it was not her decision whether she was going to take me or no and that she is only responsible for completing the feedback form. Grad rec is the decision maker something like that?? I thought the interviewers had greater decision making power. Now I am wondering whether this was her kind way of telling me I got rejected or whether it is something that she/they say to everyone. What are you thoughts? Am I spiralling lol?

 

[jiimmyhendrix592]

Has anyone heard from PMC post AC?

 

[InterestInPublicLaw]

Hi everyone I just finished my interview for a vacation scheme and I wanted your thoughts on something. At the end, she mentioned that ultimately it was not her decision whether she was going to take me or no and that she is only responsible for completing the feedback form. Grad rec is the decision maker something like that?? I thought the interviewers had greater decision making power. Now I am wondering whether this was her kind way of telling me I got rejected or whether it is something that she/they say to everyone. What are you thoughts? Am I spiralling lol?

I think she meant the grad rec will have to look at the scores of all interviewees and invite the highest scorers to the vac scheme!

 

[abc124]

Is Bakers direct TC rolling?

 

[wqueens8]

Hi everyone I just finished my interview for a vacation scheme and I wanted your thoughts on something. At the end, she mentioned that ultimately it was not her decision whether she was going to take me or no and that she is only responsible for completing the feedback form. Grad rec is the decision maker something like that?? I thought the interviewers had greater decision making power. Now I am wondering whether this was her kind way of telling me I got rejected or whether it is something that she/they say to everyone. What are you thoughts? Am I spiralling lol?

At many firms nowadays, the process is made as quantifiable as possible. It's often not a case of somebody making a decision as such, so much as them scoring your interview on some metric, your case study, group presentation, whatever else etc, and giving you a score overall.

Even in those firms where there is a decision-maker, this is often grad rec as in your case, and again (in my experience) is often somebody who was not too involved in any of your assessments, so that they can be impartial. Your interviewer probably gave detailed feedback, then grad rec will compile that with any other information about you and decide on that basis.

I wouldn't read too much into that comment. Probably is said to everyone, or if you had an especially friendly/unfriendly interview, they might not want you getting any kind of impression, like "oh the interviewer LOVED me so I feel like I've got it" when there are so many other things going into it, and it's not her decision.

 

[pepsicola96]

Tips on how to stop stressing over vac scheme conversion rates

Potentially my last shot this cycle in April, and it seems to have a 40-50% conversion rate. Call it imposter syndrome but I'm sitting here thinking over and over "oh there's no way I'll be top 40% on this scheme."

 

[User093269823]

I think she meant the grad rec will have to look at the scores of all interviewees and invite the highest scorers to the vac scheme!

lol if everything is scored and they've done all the interviews why do they need to take so long with them then

 

[Abbie Whitlock]

Hi @Abbie Whitlock I hope you're well. I was just wondering how long after your VI last year did you hear back from Stephenson Harwood? If you don't remember then that's okay.

Thank you

Hi!

I completed the VI on the 11 March and received the VS offer on the 17 March However, I did apply on the deadline, and they might be working on slightly different timelines this cycle, so I wouldn't panic if you haven't heard yet!