TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

[BealMcAlly]

Has anyone at all heard from the below firms?

Post-app:
Bristows
Cooley (aside from holding email)
Baker McKenzie

Post SJT/WG and or VI: (spring or summer whatever is applicable)
Mishcon
Simmons²
Reed Smith
Linklaters(spring vs specifically)

 

[Bbhu19]

no i asked them whether they would be willing to move me to a later batch of ACs (that is, assuming they have them?)

we'll see how they respond...if they only hold their spring ACs over 3 days well then either my AC prep is going to suffer or my mocks are going to suffer...or worse, both lol

Oh ok hopefully then can reschedule best of luck 🎉🎉

 

[floral.tcla]

tuning out of tcla forum.... see yall on the other side !

 

[yasmars]

Weil AC!! applied/sat test in early dec.

Good luck!!

 

[elle woods]

tuning out of tcla forum.... see yall on the other side !

I should really do this too…

 

[TheSaulGoodman]

Watson Farley William PFO (DTC)

 

[floral.tcla]

Good luck!!

thank you!

 

[Chak]

WFW PFO

 

[floral.tcla]

I should really do this too…

noo what is tcla without Elle woods???

 

[tcla02]

people who did the weil test same day as me got AC invites but nothing so far for me i fear im cooked

 

[elle woods]

noo what is tcla without Elle woods???

💔 what about what is TCLA without floral??

but lol it’s tough trying to keep me off here 😂

 

[TortillaTC]

Am I right in thinking that highlighting skills developed and linking back to the firm is unnecessary for Travers Smith on the WE section? Since they have a separate cover letter

 

[ArthurWeasleyLaw]

Weil AC. Scored 26. Should be interesting.

 

[Maria56]

people who did the weil test same day as me got AC invites but nothing so far for me i fear im cooked

Same..I even got the same score

 

[mpbs]

The deadline was 5 working days ago

Yep, rolling and 5 days ago. Sorry, I meant to say I applied in early December, not Jan.

 

[floral.tcla]

💔 what about what is TCLA without floral??

but lol it’s tough trying to keep me off here 😂

aha

yes, lovely going through it with everyone lol

 

[trainee4u]

people who did the weil test same day as me got AC invites but nothing so far for me i fear im cooked

Yeah I bet it's PFO for me too - I scored high, high, 7697, but I think I don't fit.

Did get a WFW VI so that's nice.....

 

[trainee4u]

It’s Capfinity. They mean new as in it’s replaced the WG from previous years

Yeah I just did it now, to be fair it was above average for Cappfinities:

* SJT was standard nothing new
* WG was a lot of questions I've seen before ("AI predictions are improving all the time", "More staff should be devoted to checking expense claims to reduce fraud") but maybe 40% that I hadn't

They had a "this is definitely not part of the assessment, honest" section when you click complete where they ask if you prefer dispute or advice, insurance claim or tech deal, and I'm like "you lie, this is definitely going to be assessed in some way".

They must have spent the big bucks.

 

[TCLAuser2002]

Cmon Weil, send me that AC invite I got 9,7,9,7 on the test!

 

[Bbhu19]

people who did the weil test same day as me got AC invites but nothing so far for me i fear im cooked

I got above 28 high, high and still silence, I felt pretty confident with my VI but I guess not 😃