Got interview to BCG General Associate position, how to best prepare?

Hey guys, as the title says above I just received an email from BCG for a first round interview completely out of the blue.

A little background: I applied for the position online like 2-3 months back, forgot about it, and within the time period already accepted an offer at a boutique IB where I start in 5 days, I also have work experience (role that i recently left) working as an IB intern for 6-7 months working on deals in EM which from my understanding is that MBB has been aggressively trying to dominate in (which i also think is a possible reason as to why I may have gotten selected in the first place at all). I'm also from a non-target school, graduated May 2018.

The interview for BCG is in 3 weeks.

My question is how do I best prepare for the interview with such a short window of time. My understanding is that people spend MONTHS prepping for these interviews (as they should, just like I spent months prepping for IB interviews myself to show I can do the job) My long term plans are to go into PE and I'm leaning in staying in Banking and doing the whole IB --> MBA-->PE path but I figured why not take the interview because it's not everyday where BC fucking G selects a non target kid for a consultant interview and also because consulting always seemed like an interesting career.

I've begun looking at case studies and I've had some experience in consulting-like thinking when working on deals since my director showed me to view businesses operationally and strategically which I used for my investment theses, however I feel vastly unprepared for this interview since I wasn't even expecting it to happen.

Any tips for case interviewing would be much appreciated.

Thank you all in advance. I hope I'm not sounding like too much of a dip shit when luck just throws an opportunity at me out of nowhere.

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^not tryna burst your bubble, but this doesn't sound like someone who got "all MBB offers"

@OP congrats on the interview. I'm starting at BCG in a few weeks. A lot of material floating around on the internet, but the three things that helped me the most (in order): 1. Case Interview Secrets and (to a lesser extent) Case in Point 2. Bschool casebooks 3. Case prep materials on the BCG website. Recruiting also should have emailed you an interview brochure with some sample cases.

Good luck, PM me with any other questions!

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