Change to IB Spring week recruiting this year?
Currently first year on a 4 year course so applying for spring weeks next year (so yes it may be early to be talking abt this) and my friends on 3 year courses have just gone through their applications and many of them said they got way more technical Qs than expected (supposedly more than previous years) and secondly that way more offers were being made to lesser-targeted unis eg Bath. I was wondering if anyone could confirm if there is any truth to this? It might affect how I prep for applying to spring weeks. Any shared observations would be valuable. Thanks.
Yes, it's true, apart from DEI events the banks are expecting higher lv of technical competency this yr.
UCL non-DEIs r rlly struggling while QMUL/Bath/Exeter/KCL ppl are bagging multiple offers, also very hard preference for DEIs this yr.
U said UCL non-DEIs are really struggling, whereas Bath/KCL etc are bagging multiple. So are the students of the latter unis that are bagging springs mostly DEI? No hate to Bath/KCL etc
Yes, a lot of SWs are DEI-exclusive events and the firms are pursuing the 'diversity of unis' as well
More applicants so need to raise the bar. When i went through the spring application process, I was actually quite disappointed at the lack of technicals - I feel like this is a move to a more meritocratic pipeline, rather than assuming talent based off signals ie. Unis (Coming from a target student)
Not sure about the non-target/semi stuff, but even last year there was quite a bit of Notts/Bath/Durham/Bristol/KCL for springs at the BBs. Those semis/non-targets didn't really do so well at summer conversions or even regular summer apps
By any chance are you a target student hating on non-targets / semi-targets?
Anyways, I come from non-target. I agree last year (2023-2024) there was basically no technicals which made the process for springs much easier and there was nothing to really test merit. Also a huge focus on DEI has helped people at my non-target get spring weeks as there is quite a high number of DEI candidates at my non-target. I disagree with conversions, my non-target has a great amount of people who convert springs (definitely on the same rate of conversions to targets despite all the extra support), but from what I hear, summer conversions are also less merit based than real summer applications. In regards to summer applications I agree, seems like target universities usually perform better and only the top standout candidates from non-targets and semi-targets end up getting an offer. Of course, summer applications have a huge element of luck in even getting a interview where the few standout candidates from non-targets and semi-targets will not have the chance to interview, in comparison to targets where there's a larger number of 'better' candidates than your average non-target.
No, I’m not, I actually go to a semi-target.
I didn’t know that recruiting for summers was harder for non/semi-targets than springs, in fact I thought it was the other way around (I don’t have much basis for this though). I thought this because for summers, firms have to recruit more seriously as it’s closer to grad recruitment and so they would do it as meritocratically as possible and would pay less attention to uni brand and focus more on the individual’s competence, but you say this isn’t the case? Not what I really wanted to hear but thanks for the comment. If you could perhaps explain further why targets do better in summer that would be great.
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