Freshman in Undergrad - Best Strategy for Junior Year Summer MBB Internship?
I'm a first-semester freshman at Harvard prospectively concentrating in CS and Economics (~3.9 GPA this semester). While I have a really technical background (software engineering internships/experience mostly), I really want diverse internships in college so I want a junior year MBB consulting internship. I'm planning on sticking with SWE internships at startups/hopefully FAANG? for my freshman and sophomore summers. At Harvard, I'm in the biggest/most selective consulting org so I should have some semi-real-world experience by the time I apply in junior year. What should I be doing now to prepare myself for success in my junior year internship search? I know how competitive MBB is, even from a target!
if all of this is true and your gpa remains high, you should have a very good shot at landing interviews. Maybe consider a product management intership at a selective firm as those are also valued by consulting firms
You know your stuff! Just keep doing what you're doing, and perhaps start connecting with some of the incoming MBB interns that you work with in the consulting club.
Please don't optimize your entire college experience around getting into MBB. At Harvard with a good GPA, you'll get good work experience and MBBs will want to interview you. You can start working on case interviews after your sophomore year.
Do whatever's fun/interesting for you. Meet a ton of people, join some fun clubs, do an interesting internship, etc. Don't worry about doing the "things MBBs want to see in a resume," whatever that means. You'll not only have a better time in college, you'll also develop soft skills faster, and that'll be a huge differentiator come interview time.
If you had to define "things MBB wants to see on a resume", it would be simple -- dope shit. How do you get dope shit on your resume? Pursue things you're actually passionate about, not things that you think they want you to do.
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