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<blockquote data-quote="ginevrafanshawe" data-source="post: 119288" data-attributes="member: 24079">Hi everyone,I am going to be applying for vacation schemes in a couple of months and I am finding it difficult to narrow down the list of firms I could apply to. I want to work at a commercial law firm in London, and of course these are all very difficult to get vacation schemes with. I really don't want to end up with no vacation schemes at all, as this may mean I'm unsuccessful when applying for training contracts, and I don't know what I'd do then. I thought that I could approach these applications in a similar way to the way you're advised to apply to universities: I would apply to the firms I would most like to work at, and also to a firm that isn't one of my targets but which is not as competitive to get a vacation scheme with, and which I like well enough that I wouldn't mind working there if it did end up being my only offer. The issue with this is that I can't figure out which law firms are less competitive, if any; they all seem to be at a level of competitiveness where you're very lucky to get an offer, and there is therefore no possibility of applying to a &quot;backup&quot; choice that you'd be more likely to get into.Does anyone have any advice on whether the idea of a &quot;backup&quot; is at all applicable to vacation scheme applications? Is there a list showing the percentage of applicants who get offers from each firm, or some way of figuring this out? I would also really appreciate any advice related to narrowing down which firms to apply to!Thanks in advance <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="ginevrafanshawe, post: 119288, member: 24079"] Hi everyone, I am going to be applying for vacation schemes in a couple of months and I am finding it difficult to narrow down the list of firms I could apply to. I want to work at a commercial law firm in London, and of course these are all very difficult to get vacation schemes with. I really don't want to end up with no vacation schemes at all, as this may mean I'm unsuccessful when applying for training contracts, and I don't know what I'd do then. I thought that I could approach these applications in a similar way to the way you're advised to apply to universities: I would apply to the firms I would most like to work at, and also to a firm that isn't one of my targets but which is not as competitive to get a vacation scheme with, and which I like well enough that I wouldn't mind working there if it did end up being my only offer. The issue with this is that I can't figure out which law firms are less competitive, if any; they all seem to be at a level of competitiveness where you're very lucky to get an offer, and there is therefore no possibility of applying to a "backup" choice that you'd be more likely to get into. Does anyone have any advice on whether the idea of a "backup" is at all applicable to vacation scheme applications? Is there a list showing the percentage of applicants who get offers from each firm, or some way of figuring this out? I would also really appreciate any advice related to narrowing down which firms to apply to! Thanks in advance :) [/QUOTE]

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