A little bit about me: Top Liberal Arts College (not in NY/Boston/East Coast) Economics Major, Chemistry Minor 3.2 GPA
Leadership and Other -Treasurer of My Student Government (was in charge of allocating 1000k) -Varsity Tennis Team Captain (competed at nationals every year, and was an all-american finalist) -President Student Investment Club (presented and organized research reports and bought and sold 500k of real money as part of the club) -Did clinical medical research in a lab (i had 2 publications, and help the lab win a 1.2 million dollar grant) -Was a Counselor at at a sports(tennis part) Camp for students who had down syndrome.
-know SAS, eviews, econometrics, stats, intro to accounting, calc I and II was an NCAA scholar athlete
let me tell you what i've been doing. I've been emailing alumni for consulting jobs (McKinsey, bain, BCG, Accenture, Deloitte) I just began this process so I have some leads, setting up phone calls, etc, but no interviews yet (hopefully i will get a few).
Then i'm starting to look at corporate finance as analyst (ebay, Microsoft, google, etc)
---now im stuck-----
OK so where else should I be applying? I-banks? for analyst positions? Is it even worth applying if I don't have a connection at the firm? -my ultimate goal would be to get into a t-10 mba school (a few years down the road) but i'm not sure if I'm doing things right.
what year are you?
I'm a senior in college
Do you have a preference between finance/consulting?
No preference between either. I think both are really interesting in their own ways. If I had to choose then I would say consulting seems a tad more interesting, but at this point I just want what's best for me in the future. And yes, I know I can do the 100 hour work weeks of i-banking. I don't really want to do sales/trading and pwn but I don't think either of those help me get into t-10 business schools anyways)
Drop Bain, McK, and BCG off your list. They have fairly stringent requirements for recruiting. Not saying your a bad candidate, but I have had friends get denied with exceptional stats (Yale, IBD, start-up). Deloitte and Accenture are still possibilities. I would say start focusing your attention towards these two and eliminate the other three.
you need to start cold-calling now. Investment banks and consulting firms are done recruiting unless you're talking about boutiques.
any other suggestions for places i should be looking at? deloitte, accenture, point b? how about ib? or corporate finance positions? do any of them set me up well for a t-10 business school? or can they give me good experiences that b-schools would like?
What have you been doing for the past 2-3 years? What internships have you done? If your school is even on the radar for these companies then you should have been applying to on campus recruiting postings. Now most of them have already filled their classes and I can't say you look real good with a low GPA at a non-target and no internships. Aim for smaller companies realistically unless you can connect on the tennis level.
Last 2 summer i worked at a clinicial cancer research center testing for brain tumors on mice (published 2 papers). So the intership was cool and interesting but not business related. (at this point I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but now i know i want to go into business/consulting and I hope it's not to late)
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