am I still MBB bound?
question for those who are currently in or who previously worked at an MBB...
- Canadian
- doing an Economics Degree Part time at a non target (still 2 years to go)
- spent a year at a provincial health agency as an Operations Analyst
- joined a Pro-bono Consulting Shop with a lot of industry ties
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currently a Project Lead tasked with review of Operational plans for 30+ business units and preparation of Quarterly Balanced Scorecard at another provincial health agency
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have a very strong potential opp at a boutique healthcare consulting firm
- plans to attend a target Canadian MBA program in two years once UG complete
In your most honest opinion, what are my chances for MBB with 2 years of probono consulting and 3 years of healthcare strategy/operational analysis? Particularly at the end of my UG from a CDN non target in 2 years?
Chances mean nothing.
What if all of us here shit on you. Is that going to affect your plans at all? It's just an ego stroke. No one's going to stroke your ego, because no one gives a fuck about you in real life.
If you want to make something happen, then do it. Life isn't fair, and "chance" questions mean nothing in the long run because all that matters is the end result, not whether or not you deserved it.
You take your credentials, you maximize your current opportunities, you fight like hell to take advantage of everything in front of you, and create opportunities if you have to. That's all that matters. Not a bunch of us behind our computer screens arbitrarily judging you when we only know a fraction of your application (there's no way for me to judge how great of an interviewer you are).
Put your energy in smart places, because that's where your competitors are putting them right now.
And if you were REALLY into this industry, you'd mention other places like roland berger, LEK, etc. Because what if RB becomes MBBR in 10 years? If you're passionate about the industry, you're not limiting yourself to a finite "tier" with a nice acronym, something...once again...determined by other people, not yourself. Determine your own fate. Just my .02
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People have done it, but it's HIGHLY unlikely. Outside of the tier 1 commerce programs in Canada, MBB really only recruits from the engineering programs at Queen's and Mcgill.
Good luck.
This is slightly unrelated to the OP, but McKinsey also recruits from Polytechnique in Montreal. They've hired at least 3 analysts from Poly over the past 5 years. Not sure about other schools.
Bill Bain went to East Tennessee University before transferring to Vanderbilt, which in the 1960's wasn't exactly the paradigm of competitive, race-blind admissions. He started Bain Consulting.
Bruce Henderson studied engineering at Vanderbilt (a joke department) before going to HBS and dropping out 90 days before graduation to work at Westinghouse, a company that no one has heard of today. Smart career move, right? He started BCG.
Point being: things are unpredictable. Bill Bain and Bruce Henderson probably couldn't get jobs at their own companies today. And as someone noted above, who is to say anyone will want to work for these companies in 5 years?
Behind the prestige and targets, it comes down to making money for people, whether they be shareholders, clients, or yourself. The most successful people I know all have fairly non-linear, scattershot careers but have a single-minded determination to make people money. Believe it or not, you are on the right track.
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