Re-recruit?

Clearly your problems were not a lack of experience. How much more do you think another season of recruiting would help? I've only recently heard a lot of people starting to do this. I'm not sure if it is effective.

Also, many of the recruiting teams will consist of the same people. Who will definitely remember your name and that you got ding-ed the year before.

Given another chance, I feel like I'd have much better results since I'm much more comfortable with the interview process now as compared to two weeks ago. Clearly, I lack in a couple of areas and if I work on them I see no reason why I shouldn't be more successful the second time around.

I'm concerned about the recruiting team's perception of someone who's already been ding-ed. I network pretty well but if I don't get interviews, everything goes to shit.

I'm in the same boat, I went through final rounds with a non-MBB strategy consultancy but a great 2nd tier, and got dinged after the final round. Is it worth either reapplying off cycle, next recruiting cycle, or even for a summer '13 internship (even if I am graduating in May)?

I think the reason I got dinged is I made a really simple math mistake in a case with one of the three interviewers. They have a policy of no feedback which doesn't help with knowing what exactly it was, but that seems like the most logical conclusion. Other then that mistake which I know I would not make a 2nd time (and don't even know how I made in the first place), I thought I did great.

apply for summer internships and extend graduate if you need to. but keep interviewing for FT position even if they are lower tier.