Considering applying to a few schools as a transfer next year. Brown is my top choice. Who would make the most competitive job applicant?
An extremely involved semi-target-school student (Duke/Emory/Stern/Vanderbilt/USC) or a transfer student at Brown?
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Unrelated to your topic question, but how have you enjoyed Vanderbilt? I've applied to their Regular Decision and considered moving the application up to ED II. I have similar career goals to yours and wondered how well Vanderbilt is preparing you to reach them.
Good luck!
Vanderbilt student here.
Vandy, while not a target for consulting, has a pretty solid feed rate. We have on-campus recruiting from the full MBB and B4, and have been sending more and more to these firms each year. BCG in particular just opened an office here in Nashville, and we have a pretty robust relationship with Deloitte.
That all being said, most of our MBB recruiting feeds into southern offices (Texas, Atlanta, Nashville). I know of some people who do 1 year (either intern or FT) in their recruited office and then transfer elsewhere though.
As near as I can tell, your major in econ/math/HOD/whatever isn't going to be a huge differentiating factor. Take it with as many grains of salt as you like, but this PeakFrameworks article that attempted some quantified analysis of feed rates puts Brown and Vandy at almost exactly the same place (52 MBB from Brown, 58 from Vandy). https://www.peakframeworks.com/post/consulting-target-schools
If you're not happy with your environment at Vandy then sure go ahead transfer. I'm just not sure I'd do it specifically to increase recruiting success. Brown is a much more laidback environment than Vandy, so you might end up with a different level of career-focused drive from potential classmates.
If you love Vanderbilt, don't leave. I transferred to a target school, and it's a difficult transition sociaally. You're not going to be held back at Vanderbilt.
graduated from Brown last year, will say that MBB opportunities are plentiful just looking at my peers and with your superficial profile, you would be an extremely competitive candidate; the feed rates are a little misleading given the fact that a large portion of those going into MBB from brown, i would say came “late” into the game aka we’re not dead set on consulting their freshman, sophomore, or junior years. brown also is sneaky good for tech VC for networking reasons
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