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My school ran a 5-hour Management Consulted session and I wasn't particularly impressed. It could have easily been condensed into 30-45 minutes.

If you have bags and bags of cash to blow and consulting means that much to you, by all means blow $2k on the program. However, you could find people to case with for free online with some effort, alongside high-quality cases. You can also spend a few hundred dollars on a resume/cover-letter service if you think you're lacking in that department.

This isn't meant to be some obnoxious weird brag, but I got an offer at MBB having only done a single practice case with someone from my college's careers center, alongside the practice case offered by the firm. Casing really isn't that difficult in the sense that firms aren't expecting amazing insights from you. If you can show a degree of business insight and a solid, non-rehearsed framework, then you've passed that hurdle. In my opinion, coming across as confident and likeable is far more important - and this is something you need to develop yourself.

 

Incoming FT at MBB, I don't think that it is worth the money personally. They offer plenty of free sessions that are helpful enough (where they push you to buy the program at the end). I used these in combination with online case books to self study for case interviews and that was sufficient. Hope this helps.

 

I started about 2 months before interviews doing full case practice interviews with someone else 3-4 times per week (I would give him/her a case and they would give me one and we would give each other feedback). I have previously read through case in point and other basic articles online about how to structure a case interview. Visited all consulting websites to see practice cases and watched example videos.

 
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