RX Consulting Internship — how?

I actually went through the recruiting process for both FTI and A&M, and here are a few things I learned; take them as you will.

1. Between FTI , Alix, and A&M, FTI has the best culture hands down, A&M has the best pay, and Alix has the most prestigious debtor side deals (this is a little bit more spread out between Alix and A&M nowadays but still).
2. A&M makes you work for the pay, and I mean really work
3. If you're trying to come on as an intern, by far the most valuable thing you can gain is deal experience and mentorship. To that end, I genuinely believe that FTI has the best learning experience hands down, because given the dog eat dog culture at A&M / Alix, it's really hard to find a) a mentor that can truly take the time to guide you through things b) get staffed on high impact deals c) really understand what exactly it is that you're doing. If you end up interviewing for FTI, one thing that they'll promise is that you'll actually get staffed on live & meaningful deals and be assigned a 1 on 1 mentor, and they keep those promises. On top of that, they do a massive amount of creditor side stuff, and that's the really financially complex work. Once you get that experience, lateral to another consultancy if you want.
4. Know for sure that this is what you want to do. RX, despite all the people waxing lyrical about it over on this forum, is an incredibly stressful and technical area, considering you're dealing with literal time bombs of companies. It brings out the worst in people, radically different from IB (except RX IB), where you're dealing with happy stuff like IPOs
5. Rx consulting is an exit, therefore, most of the people you meet will be people with a tremendous amount of past experience. Take time to form connections with them; RX is a small world, and you'll keep on running into the same people again and again
6. Experience is the name of the game. In restructuring, especially in RX consulting, people don't really care about what college you went to, so doesn't really matter if you're applying from Stanford or University of Georgia, as long as you've got good grades, involvement, a good story & great prior internship / work experience. In a BK or restructuring, what matters is having a tremendous amount of well rounded experience (in the legal, financial, strategy and operational sides). That's why you see a lot of ""non-target"" people in RX consulting - because in times of crisis, what the distressed company or creditors care about is your track record.
7. As far as timelines go, the other comments on here are spot on

**not related to the post, but in all my time lurking on this forum, I've never seen RX consulting blow up like this lol, at the time of me posting this all 3 of the top 3 trending posts are about RX consulting, as well as 6 of the 10 most active. Wonder why.