Chance me MBB
Hey guys, hope your week is splendid so far. As the name of the thread says, I'm a rising junior applying for internships at MBB.
Stats:
Consulting at Big 4 this summer
Finance intern at a startup freshman summer
Co-founder of a club, and a vice president role in consulting club
West Coast Target School, Econ Major, Data Science Minor
GPA: 3.7-3.75
SAT Scores: 1500-1550
Applying to Seattle and SF offices
Is there anything that stands out? Is there anything I should improve on? Any advice is appreciated, even if harsh.
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Is there anything you could improve? Sure, you could retake the SAT so you get a couple extra points on the HR rubric for who gets an interview. Or retake old classes to bump that GPA up.
But I don't think there is anything you should improve, resume-wise. I'd be surprised if you didn't get an interview with those stats. Which means you should focus your time on making sure you can ace those case interviews.
Thanks for the response :). I've been casing since january, just worried about getting the interview. Also, do you have any info on how the resume rubric works? I don't know much about the resume screening process.
All of those things you mentioned get sorted into tiers, so like a target college is tier 1 vs semitarget is tier 2 vs semisemitarget is tier 3 vs nontarget is tier 4, and same with the GPA, internship experience, ECs, SAT/GMAT. You get a certain amount of "points" in each category based on the tier you landed in. And your total points across all categories are a big determinant of whether you get an interview.
That is a simplified explanation of course. Lots of room for people with marginal totals to either get interviewed or not. But assuming that by "West Coast Target School" you mean something like a UCLA or a Claremont McKenna and not a UW, then your resume is T1/T2 all around. And even if you were at UW I think you'd probably still get a look, I'd just be less certain about it.
Although at the same time, recruiting is a bit of a crapshoot these days. So much uncertainty about whether AI is gonna take our jobs, and all the consulting shops got burned by the market a couple years back.
Thanks for the insights! How do referrals and games such as Solve play a role in this? My school is above the UCLA tier.
Looks great. The difference will most likely be how well you sell some of these things on your resume. Show some impact and don’t have atrocious formatting. Also don’t be a robot or one-dimensional.
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