Tech Consulting -> MBA

I'm a senior at a target school with a 3.4 gpa and I ended up taking a job in the Big 4 doing IT consulting work. I realized I fucked up but I'm not looking to get into MBB or anything prestigious like that. If I work for 4 years and go back for an MBA what are my chances of getting something that actually has upside?

 

Can you actually get into a good B-school doing IT consulting work? I have like no extracurriculars in college and no internship experience. The only significant thing I did over my summers was research work for the accounting department.

 

time and time again you will hear from MBA admissions consultants that it's far more important to do a great job at what you are doing than working in a great job (usually defined as "prestigious.")

 

Just a friendly piece of advise: I am an executive recruiter in Boston who looks through this site for some talented individuals. I would suggest not swearing in your question, it turned me off automatically. Not being judge mental, just my opinion.

 
karens:
Just a friendly piece of advise: I am an executive recruiter in Boston who looks through this site for some talented individuals. I would suggest not swearing in your question, it turned me off automatically. Not being judge mental, just my opinion.

Thanks for the "advise", but maybe you didn't notice that this site gives users the ability to "throw monkey shit" at another user if they don't like what they have to say. You seem to have misjudged the purpose and general tone of WSO, and frankly I judge that you come off as a little mental.

Money Never Sleeps? More like Money Never SUCKS amirite?!?!?!?
 
karens:
Just a friendly piece of advise: I am an executive recruiter in Boston who looks through this site for some talented individuals. I would suggest not swearing in your question, it turned me off automatically. Not being judge mental, just my opinion.

Perhaps you meant "advice", and "judgmental". If you're going to be critical of someone else's post, let me suggest that you be spot on with yours.

 

Thanks for the reply!

Yes I am currently studying for the GMAT. Aiming for a 700+. My Q was somewhat low so am trying to work on that for the most part.

My firm does not really work with or relate to MC in any way. However, I might be able to work up in tech/ops to manager in a few years. Or I can try to get into another tech consulting firm.

 

If you came from any of the companies you listed, I think you'd be a great applicant assuming everything else is in order (GPA, GMAT, extracurriculars). Just be sure to make your application reflects your management experience. The one thing you want to avoid is coming across as too technical, which other applicants probably don't need to worry about as much.

 

Take practice tests, assess your weaknesses, study those weaknesses for a few days, take more practice tests. Worked for me. Also if you have time read up on some strategies for eliminating answers. Those can be pretty helpful.

 
lakeshow:
Take practice tests, assess your weaknesses, study those weaknesses for a few days, take more practice tests. Worked for me. Also if you have time read up on some strategies for eliminating answers. Those can be pretty helpful.

This is probably the best advice. Of course, if you don't score well, then the follow up would be to apply the same process, figure out where you need to do better, study for that particular problem type and then retake.

Regards

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan
 

You need to think about what you want out of the MBA and figure out how the story of your pre-MBA experience ties into that. How long have you been a Program Manager at Microsoft? Starting over as an entry level consultant may be seen as taking a step backward after several years in your current role. Do people in tech roles make it to H/S? Yes, on occasion. Is it rare? Yes. Do you need remarkable extra curriculars and amazing (maybe newsworthy) accomplishments in the role? Certainly.

Why only H/S? It will be a crapshoot with these two schools regardless of whether you tack on MBB experience. If you're looking for a strong school that will help you as a career switcher, any of the MBA business schools">M7 schools will do the same for you.

source: I have a similar background and got in a handful of MBA business schools">M7 schools this round.

 

Whiskey5 - I absolutely agree. I was just curious to see how these banks were perceived by MBA programs. There is quite a lot of info on the site about going from EBs to MBAs and I was hoping to get some info on this tier of bank. Thanks for the input though, I do appreciate it.

 

you'd be quite competitive at the top 10 schools, depending on GMAT (big diff between 720 and 680 in terms of admissions). GSB and HBS are crapshoots, even for top candidates. But for everything else, I think you're looking pretty solid.

 

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