TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

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Does anyone know when Penningtons Manches Cooper will be getting back to candidates?

 

[cjwx]

Stephenson Harwood virtual open day. 😁

When did this even open? I have been looking for an open day on their website since September and there was nothing. I bit the bullet and just applied early without going to one hoping this would increase my chances.

 

[MissAnnaliseKeating]

Has anyone heard back from Debevoise? If not, do you know how long it normally takes to get a response?

 

[chloeanderson1]

Has anyone heard back from Ashurst yet for their summer vac scheme? Haven’t heard anything since doing their online test

 

[elsx]

Kennedys virtual insight event. I officially have three virtual insight events in three days next week 😅

 

[lolasparks]

Any word of Latham or Pinsent Masons regional? I'm starting to think no news may just simply be bad news😂

 

[baj5]

Did anybody who applied close to the WFW hear back?

 

[Lizzie_Sullivan]

I'm in the same boat... the wait is awful

Are you waiting to hear back after an AC or VI? I passed the VI december 19th and still waiting to hear if I got shortlisted for the AC in edinburgh

 

[walterwhite]

Macfarlanes PFO

I think I only progress with US firms

Literally man, it’s crazy. To be fair, given that there were only two questions and they were pretty generic, perhaps there wasn’t a sufficient differentiating factor for people. For example, when compared to US apps like Debevoise, there was little room to really distinguish your application.

Then again, I might be completely wrong here. Still a bummer but we proceed!

 

[Hamaaida Khan]

Has anyone heard back from V&E?

 

[zoobla20]

Hey, is withers for the spring or summer VS?

Spring

 

[sibs23]

Fieldfisher PFO, unsurprised as I applied on deadline

 

[Bread]

"Please include activities, interests and positions of responsibility, whether at school, university or otherwise."

How is it best to structure this question? I had half a mind of doing bullet points, but with the limited word count i'm wondering whether it is better to write in prose so that I may touch on different things? Was just wondering what other people have been doing x

 

[bb123]

Are you waiting to hear back after an AC or VI? I passed the VI december 19th and still waiting to hear if I got shortlisted for the AC in edinburgh

Post AC for Manchester although I think the early careers people are different for each office

 

[MV340]

I did my W&C VI early first week of Jan and have not heard back since, have any of you got news about AC or not heard back yet? Curious to know was WC is a priority firm for me. I have also seen threads they are absolutely the worst when it comes to getting back to people.

Hey, I’m in the same boat. From what I’ve seen, I think people do tend to hear back for AC within a week/10 days. While I can’t rule anything out as we haven’t been rejected yet, I think it likely either means we didn’t get through or we got waitlisted.

That being said, the actual deadline only just passed, so maybe they’re just going through the last minute written apps they received or waiting for the VIs from the people who applied after us? It’s tough to say but guessing the best strat is just to keep pushing forward with other firms for now.

 

[pleasepleaseplease]

Regardless of early morning Macfarlanes PFO, hoping some good news for us today!

 

[futuretrainee101ac]

I spoke to them and they said we should here next week about it

Omg really!! Hopefully it’s sooner in the week, regardless of the outcome

 

[AlarmedBookkeeper448]

When did this even open? I have been looking for an open day on their website since September and there was nothing. I bit the bullet and just applied early without going to one hoping this would increase my chances.

i don't know when they opened but the deadline for both the london and virtual one was on the 1st Jan 2025.
I attended the london one and they did say you can withdraw your app after attending the open day if you want to amend it - but i am not too sure whether you email them first adn then reapply

 

[fbtrainee]

Hi guys, I wanted to ask if I were to apply for a direct TC with freshfields, and was unsuccessful with my attempt, would that rule me out of applying for their winter vacation scheme programme? The applications for that programme open during the summer/fall I believe.

Were you able to get a response on this?

 

[nbjani]

Finally got an email inviting me to do the CMS Watson glaser. Do we know if that’s selective or just late non-selective? I’m not sure how I do with Watson glaser; I had an email from CC saying I passed theirs (but then didn’t go through to the next round) - is that worth anything or more of a holding thing they say to people?