GPA cutoff for consulting summer internship?

Hi everyone:

I was wondering if I can get some help with a question regarding GPA. I'm a college junior in one of the HYPS schools trying to land a consulting summer internship with McKinsey, Bain, or BCG. My gpa this year isn't that good due to hard classes. I have a 3.67 cumulative GPA and I'm majoring in Math and Economics. I have decent EC but I didn't do lots of networking in the past semester at recruitment events.

I know it's a tough economy so i'm a little worried about my chances... Do you think a 3.67 (out of 4) is high enough to land me a 1st round interview at those 3 places?

Thank you for your time!

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I attend one of HYPS, and my experience with MBB is that McKinsey tends to be noticeably more selective when choosing their interviewees (this is even more true for full-time recruiting; McK only interviewed ~35 people and Bain and BCG interviewed ~80 people for full-time). I had a > 3.9 majoring in a mathematical discipline with pretty good EC's (but no good internship experiences and not much networking) - didn't receive an interview from McK but received interviews from Bain and BCG for summer internship recruiting.

 
wjdgusqlsI attend one of HYPS, and my experience with MBB is that McKinsey tends to be noticeably more selective when choosing their interviewees (this is even more true for full-time recruiting; McK only interviewed ~35 people and Bain and BCG interviewed ~80 people for full-time). I had a > 3.9 majoring in a mathematical discipline with pretty good EC's (but no good internship experiences and not much networking) - didn't receive an interview from McK but received interviews from Bain and BCG for summer internship recruiting.

wow are you serious? that's crazy....

 

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