TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

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Jessica Booker

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Understand your point. Unfortunately, grad rec conveniently say for the large amount of apps they get, they can’t give individual feedback. But what confuses me is if they read every app they get before the deadline like they say on their website, how is it that they don’t note down points to evaluate each app (which one progresses or gets rejected). Surely, you are making a decision on some sort of ‘CRITERIA’. As an applicant, even if grad rec shares that criteria on the basis of which they’ve made the decision, I suppose that would help to some extent. But the fact that they don’t have time to offer feedback but to read every app that reaches them, doesn’t sit right with me. Makes me think how do they actually evaluate candidates…
It isn’t the marking that’s the issue, it’s the sending hundreds of bespoke emails that is the thing that would take an extraordinary amount of time, this would take more time than reading the application form.

Not reading every app to then have time to give feedback (and limit the feedback you do give due to reduced numbers) would be very risky in my opinion.
 

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Akin Gump PFO post-test, Skadden PFO, Weil PFO post-application, Linklaters PFO after getting 93rd percentile on Watson Glaser and Willkie PFO post-application OMG can law firms give me a break today please no more PFO's today.
damn sorry to hear that. Do you mind sharing when you got your Weil PFO and when you applied? I’m awaiting mine impatiently
 
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Ali A

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    The training principal at Skadden told me on the insight evening that they hoped for 2000 applications.

    If they went straight to AC and removed the TI stage then they must have had to cut down the numbers by ALOT.

    Presumably, if they have 35ish vac scheme spots for spring and summer combined, maybe like 100 people at the AC?

    So if you made the Skadden AC, huge huge achievement!
     
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