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    Self-funding GDL Help!

    Yes exactly. Where you do the LPC or GDL probably doesn't make the slightest difference to a firm if you fund it yourself. What you should be looking at really are the strength of the careers service and the quality of the teaching. Everything else is an extra.
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    Self-funding GDL Help!

    I can't speak for the GDL but I'm doing my LPC at ULaw and I've been relatively impressed with its offering given everything that's going on, although like every course provider, it is not perfect, either. I think if you're going to self-fund the course, you have to choose the provider that...
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    There's definitely more to this story than BPP is letting on. I agree with what @S87 says about BPP's current PR crisis.
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    I went back through my (successful--at least to AC) direct TC app there from last year and put everything together in one doc. Calculated I wrote like 2000 words not including work experience!
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Numberwang?
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Don't know about merch but could certainly do relatable memes
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    I'm still waiting to hear back on my Forsters TC app from last year, which was amalgamated into the 2023 cycle for some reason.
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Oh fair enough. I just have different tabs: one has all the app questions and my answers; one is quite similar to the one you posted; I have another for work experience and a final one for potential interview questions! If I am so lucky as to receive a TC this cycle, I will take a leaf out of...
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    And here was I sitting there smugly thinking my 30 applications was enough. Clearly I have to up my game ;) Very simple layout - I like it! What does the 'link' do?
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Is that an educated guess or did you reach out to them directly? Also low key, after seeing what that other dude said about the ridiculousness of why he failed the RS commercial question, I feel confident enough to predict that I won't be making it to the AC.
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Has anyone even been sent a VI for the summer yet?
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Just remember that if it's easier for you, then it's probably easier for everyone else too. I reckon the benchmark will be quite high. Bit worrying tbh.
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Brown Rudnick Interview! Totally stoked as I love the idea of representing claimants against big institutions.
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    This is the graduate recruitment content I never knew I needed
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Is it a dumb question not to know what PFO actually stands for? I have two masters degrees. I like to to think I'm an intelligent guy. I get that it means being rejected at app stage. But I still have absolutely no clue.
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    One firm I interviewed at last cycle just flat out refused to give feedback at all post-interview. Sent out an automated email as if I were PFO'd. So at least you got a call! Today I'd probably do a subject access request, but at the time I wasn't sure whether I wanted to apply there again or not.
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    I have had a similar experience as well. During last year's cycle, for one firm I was told that my competency interview was very poor (the way the questions were asked totally threw me off) and my case study was average but my written exercise was exceptionally strong. I accepted the feedback...
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    What should I practice for the maths element? I'm fairly confident on everything else but my mental maths is awful and I'm a bit worried about it.
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    This sounds like it might be it -> I applied to London and received the McQuaig first. Maybe they are just doing it because it is likely to get a proportionally greater number of applicants and they need an extra level of filtering>?
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    Career Manoeuvrability - Post TC

    I don't think you need to take your contact's advice seriously. Travers is an excellent firm. All the guides say so, and training there if you can get in would give you great exit opportunities. The advice you were given seems suspicious to me. Could they have had a bad experience with the...

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