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Message: <blockquote data-quote="boots pharmacy" data-source="post: 230586" data-attributes="member: 38022">You sound like a resilient, clever and capable individual. Most importantly, you are rational and level-headed, unentitled and realistic. Unfortunately, the simple nature of the game is that even the strongest applicants are bound for rejection after rejection. I have had more than one cycle, and I know plenty of people with TC's, many of whom were offered multiple, some with 4 or more. Every single one of them had at least a 40% rejection rate. 70-90% rejection rates were most common. The most frustrating thing is that rejections can seem arbitrary and random. A firm you pour your heart and soul into may reject you at the first stage despite positive reviews from current trainees, a killer CV, and having attended plenty of events with them. Simultaneously, you might find success with other firms you applied to on a whim, or other firms you thought you didn't have a chance with; a close friend landed the Paul, Weiss vac, then the TC offer, after being rejected for their open day in the same cycle. That ended up being their only offer.It is a numbers game, I cannot stress this enough. You must make as many high quality, tailored, detailed applications as possible. Simultaneously, despite getting to know a firm well, going to their events, speaking to their grad rec, deeply researching their deals/history/senior management/etc. you must not get personally attached to any firms you apply to.  This is not easy. As communitarian creatures, human beings are not built to withstand that sort of repeated emotional whiplash; simultaneously, it is absolutely reasonable to feel yourself gaining an attachment and building up hopes toward an entity you have (up to the point of rejection) only ever had positive interactions with. When making applications, it is therefore natural to feel drained, discouraged, frustrated and confused.Is it possible that you might try your best, do all the right things, work to the bone, and still end up without a TC? Absolutely. Luck matters more than people care to admit. Does that mean that the pursuit of a TC is any less worthwhile a goal? That's up to you to decide.Following that train of thought, it is up to you to figure out how many high quality applications you're able to send out. How hungry are you? I get the impression that you're capable of far more than 11.Persevere. You only need 1 offer.</blockquote>

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