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"Richmondkey"

If you are at a non-target, I'd expect 4-5 business days.

Non-Target would literally have nothing to do with this...if you got an offer they want you, doesn't matter where you from. The Harvard kid has as much time to decide as the UOregon kid.

 

To echo what others have said, it completely depends. Your school might be able to protect you if you applied through the career center and guarantee you a certain date. Otherwise, about 2 weeks seems customary.

 

Like others have said, 2 weeks is pretty much standard from what I have seen. If there is a hard deadline, they should tell you when you are officially given the offer. This seems to be the case with most BBs.

 
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If you're at a target where a firm conducts OCR, you have a deadline (even if the offer was not through OCR). If you're not at a target, you may have 2 weeks, 2 months or you may be given a verbal offer with a letter only if you verbally accept. You should ABSOLUTELY hold off and try to leverage this offer. You should wait for as long as they give you. This is especially true at a BB where HR handles this stuff (less likely to piss off MDs etc.)

 

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