2025 ADC/APD Summer Programs/Full-Time Applications Thread

I was keeping a tab on a similar tab created for 2024 and it was really helpful in keeping up with the different programs. Starting this thread for 2025 ADC/APD Summer Program/FT application. Will keep updating deadlines as they appear.
 

Summer Programs:

  • McKinsey Insight 
  • Bridge to BCG
  • Bain ADvantage
  • Connect to Clearview
  • Link to LEK 
  • EMBARK with EY-P
  • Transition to Trinity
  • Propel with Lumanity

Other firms of interest include:

  • Health Advances
  • IQVIA
  • Putnam
  • Clarion
  • CRA
  • ZS
  • Simon-Kucher

Feel free to add in additional firms that are recruiting for PhD but not on this list.

72 Comments
 

When was the deadline for submitting Bain's TestGorilla assessment for you guys? I submitted mine yesterday and the deadline for me was 11:30 PM PST on 02/27. They probably will send interview invites soon to be held sometime in 1st/2nd week of March.

 

Did you get any coffee chat invitation today? I think it's one of the key steps for their consultants to know the potential applicants.

 

syw

when did you interview? how did it go? I have it coming up this Friday

Not OP but I interviewed on Monday. It was a fairly straightforward behavioral section. The case was completely interviewee driven (don’t expect any exhibits or info without explicitly asking, for example you will have to explicitly mention that you are looking for profit margins in the industry etc.) good luck!

 

I interviewed last Friday, haven’t heard back yet. The case interview part I find was quite ambiguous, they provided a lot of information that I’m not sure how relevant they actually are. A lot of brainstorming questions and no math. Behavioral was okay I guess, the interviewer left about 10min in the end for me to ask question. Good luck!

 

following. I submitted my application 02/27. I know it was pretty late and they said interview invites are gonna be on a rolling basis

 

Anyone knows what Link to LEK interview looks like? they say it's a 45min case interview. Is it only case or is there a behavioral part? And is it a life science case?

 

Anyone heard back from Link to LEK? Interviewed on 03/25 and saw someone who interviewed on 03/27 got an offer today. Maybe I'm cooked

 

sounds like this year is similar to last year (no interview guarantees) - pretty much everyone who did Insight still got first round interviews anyway. So in practice Insight participants still got R1 interviews, but it wasn't an explicit/formal "guarantee" of sorts. Whether that's worth it or not is up to you to decide

 

 

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