How do firms choose your location during undergrad recruitment?

Question

I'm weighing attending two different targets (UVA and UNC), UNC obviously recruits primarily to Atlanta, but if you get an offer and list BOS/NYC as preferences, how likely is it to get that office vs. if you went to UVA where they have recruiters from NYC/BOS?

consultantturnedgreat · Accepted Answer

First, you really, absolutely, should not be choosing where to attend a 4 year college on the location for a potential consulting offer where you (may) end up spending two years partly traveling. Choose the college on everything else, fit, academics, campus, etc.

In terms of how location works, my experience was really based on firm (for MBB). For McKinsey, it was pretty easy to go anywhere from a target. No real restrictions, saw people end up all over the country for schools like UVA/UNC.

consultantturnedgreat · Answer

I think that second group, but it might have shifted to the first. I saw people from Vandy at my firm end up in NYC, Chicago, DC, Atlanta, Houston and I am sure there were others.

This is why I vehemently disagree with the post below. I saw people from all three of the schools mentioned have a fairly easy time going across the east coast, south, midwest and to a lesser extent west coast.

In no world from my experience does UVA have a better connection to NYC than Umich or Vandy. Is it a better school? Depends on the person but all are viewed pretty evenly in most professional circles.

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