Boston Consulting Group Recruiting 2009
Hey everyone! I'm a Senior at Morehouse College... Econ major, business and poli-sci minor. I had my first round finance interviews with BCG last week and I'm still waiting to hear back. Just wanted to check in to see how the recruiting process in going for other BCG candidates and I was hoping to get some advice from past candidates on how to be successful. I'm also waiting to see if I get an interview with BoozAllen, McK, and Accenture. Wish me luck and all of your feedback and insight is appreciated!
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Whew! Got the call today and they advanced me to the final round of interviews... Does anyone know how much harder the final round interviews are than first round? Are there certain things I should be expecting this last round that aren't typical of first round interviews?
How does MBB recruit at Morehouse???
diversity recruiting
I've never understood that....can't they get diverse and minority individuals from actually good schools???
Looks good to say that they are recruiiting at howard, bethume cookman, etc...
Not judging the op or any other HBC students, but they are rarely hired compared to the URMs at target schools.More of a formality than anything
Final round interviews are typically more focused on fit, but you could still certainly get a case. They're "easier" in many regards given the fit focus, but don't let your guard down.
For you haters out there, believe it or not, there actually are good candidates at non-Ivy schools. I've had more than one senior banker tell me they'd take a kid at the top of a big state school who paid their own way through school over a smart core school graduate any day of the week. Just saying be careful about the assumptions you make.
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I wasn't referring directly to the OP. By all means bust your ass to get wherever your going! I'm not hating I just don't understand why that school is selected for recruitment when it's clearly not in the same league as the others that it recruits from. I think it's unfair to other potential minority candidates who worked hard to get to a top school and are struggling to find jobs.
I myself am not a minority, I go to a semi-target big state school so I hope what you say is true!!! ha.
Thanks for all of the helpful tips for everyone who had some insightful advice to offer up. It was really helpful. Overall I think I did really well... For decision round interviews I found myself being interviewed by more senior people at the firm, they gave me cases all of which my interviewers had previously or were currently working on which I thought was really cool. The cases were not as challenging as I had expected them to be but it really seemed like the interviews were more focused on fit. I got a lot of questions about my personal experience and it seemed as though they were really picking my brain to get a feel for my thought process.
As for Morehouse recruiting... Morehouse is a great school despite what other people have to say about it. I graduated high school at the top of my class from a top public high school in California and I got accepted to a number of "good schools" but I chose Morehouse for a number of different reasons... Its not always about a school's ranking. A lot of my classmates are really intelligent, talented and hard working students and are just as competitive as kids at o/top schools. So its not really "unfair" that MBB recruits @ Morehouse in my opinion. Morehouse sends alot of guys to Ivy League grad schools and I think that says alot. And for me personally, I've worked in the Senate, top Wall Street I-banks, and I've started 3 businesses and a non-profit since I've been in college... I think that my level of accomplishment matches or exceeds that of my peers... not being cocky or anything, just saying...
No I wasn't saying you individually aren't qualified I was just referring to the school as a whole. I'm from Atlanta so I know the rep of Morehouse and such. And I'm sure there are many bright kids that go there but you could say that about every college in America. Every college will always have a decent amount of smart kids go there for reasons besides "going to a top school". Either way Morehouse is still a college/university and as far as recruiting goes should meet the standards of the other schools that M/B/B recruit from which it clearly doesn't. Morehouse has it's place but does it deserve a spot next to the top publics and Ivy league schools? Like I said I'm not attacking you, by all means bust your ass and do whatever it takes!
Does Morehouse meet the same standards of other schools that MBB recruits at? Clearly it does.. Would a company invest time, money and human capital into recruiting at a school if the opportunity wasn't worth it or if the school didn't meet certain standards?... No, that makes no logical sense.
Then the question of who determines whether Morehouse deserves a spot next to top Ivy league schools or even how anyone comes to that decision and what factors play into the decision... that's a REALLY big can of worms...
You: Does Morehouse meet the same standards of other schools that MBB recruits at? Clearly it does
Morehouse Website: The acceptance rate at Morehouse is about 69% SAT's above l000 combined will place you in excellent position.
How can you be serious? You sound like an outstanding applicant, but your school is no better than and MBB does not recruit there. Your school is different in one aspect, and that is why MBB goes there.
Morehouse College is the historically black all-male college in Atlanta. Today it is making headlines about the new dress code policy. The Morehouse College dress code isn't much of a scandal – it's just requiring students to take their appearance seriously, but at what point are huge personal loans for an education worth less effort due to ridiculous rules for attending? The Morehouse College dress code forbids a man to wear anything resembling women's clothing – although one wonders how it's a problem. The reason why that Morehouse College is one of the few men's colleges in the U.S., meaning no women attend. (Then why go?)
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