My chances at IB or consulting companies??
Hi everyone, I am currently a prehealth student and my friends introduced me to the world of business and consulting. I recognize that my previous focus and these areas are vastly different. Therefore, I am willing to get every necessary training and education.
I scored 99.2 percentile on Dental Admission Test, which is equivalent to Harvard D school average and higher than Columbia D school. but unfortunately, I don't want to be a dentist cause now I think that the career is like a highly trained technician. I want to be constantly challenged with new projects and work with many different people.
I went to a state university (Top 50 in US News) with a full-ride, had Biochemistry major and Business administration minor and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a GPA of 3.76. My non-science GPA is 3.98 which is mainly composed of business courses. I made As in accounting, finance, business law, management, and marketing.
For extracurriculars, I worked at pharmacology lab for 2 years, got several authorships in publications, won $4,000 scholarship for working on a mentored project, wrote a senior thesis, and presented several posters. I was the president of a community service club and led members to participate in many outreach activities. I volunteered at homeless clinic for 3 years, hospice for 2 years, and several different area in hospitals for nearly 500 hours. I also volunteered with Big Brothers and Big Sisters for 1 year and mentored an underprivileged child who was very behind in studies and made him one of top students.
I am currently working at National Institutes of Health as a research fellow and am about to get several authorships at top journals like Science and Nature. I am also working on an independent project of my own and almost done with collecting necessary data and am about to start working on my manuscript.
I do feel that my activities are very unrelated to consulting realm, so do you guys think I should get masters in IT? or MBA??
After completing every training or education I need to do, do I have chances at top tier consulting companies like Mackinsey or a second tier like Accenture?
personally, I think you have the resume to get into a good consulting company. but if not, you'd be well positioned for a good MBA.
Also, while authorships in Science and Nature are impressive to me, I doubt anybody around here would care. Not sure about MBA admissions.
EDIT: while, i'm not the most knowledgeable on this topic...Master's in IT? not sure how that would help you. I would stay far away from that.
oh I guess only MBA would be helpful then. Could you specify what are good consulting companies?? are you referring to top ones like Mckinsey or good ones like Accenture??
I am not the most knowledgeable on this. But I'm under the impression that top places like Mckinsey have fairly structured recruiting. i.e. you get the jobs through OCR. In terms of second tier places, I was thinking more like Deloitte.
EDIT: btw, with you're record, you'd be great MD or PhD material. or both. I'm guessing that's not what you want.
precisely, you are right. But I recently learned that there are many important things in this world that I wish to incorporate in my life and being a MD, or Ph.D would effectively prevent me from cherishing them. and dentist job is too monotonous.
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