Uchicago for Consulting

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askmeaboutmycleanandjerk

11d

At uchicago right now, and everyone I know who wants to work at a prestigious consulting firm is interning at one or has at a minimum interviewed at multiple.

UChicago even introduced an easy grade-inflating major called Business Econ to enable goobers like you.

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11d

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Least obvious Proud Econ virgin, I’m at Goldman in NYC out of UChicago . Tip: fuck a lot even tho the girls at UChicago are ugly.

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i go to uchi. I just save the ladies for home. prepare the goggles buddy.

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snickett

11d

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Basic answer is absolutely not, UChicago is a super strong school for consulting recruitment.

More detail:

Less kids at UChicago pursue consulting because our placement into banking, quant finance, and academia are especially strong. Lots of smart kids go down those paths instead. It's like looking at Stanford's placement into banking and thinking that you would be at a disadvantage going to Stanford - the school culture just pushes kids to something else (tech).
Lots of strong consulting clubs on campus (Eckhart, Prism, Pareto, Campus Catalyst, etc.) if you do want to get exposure but not a huge culture around it, good number of case comps hosted by MBB+T2.
Seen as a major target school for MBB firms. My MBB has a dedicated recruiter who covers only UChicago and Notre Dame, significant alumni recruiting presence, junior consultants visit campus to host info sessions events for clubs.
Consulting tends to look for intelligence, academic rigor and curiosity more than other professional fields; UChicago is perceived to have lots of really smart kids and our core curriculum forces everyone to be pretty well-rounded and conversant
I think you can get better pre-consulting internships from UChicago than Northwestern, which makes your application to MBB stronger

Northwestern is better at churning out consultants because their culture values that and turns undecided kids into consultants; but if you know you want to pursue consulting you should always go to the best school you can and you'll be recognized as such.

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11d

Thanks for your response man, really helpful stuff.

Also wanted to ask some advice about the point about intelligence, academic rigor, and curiosity - that's one of the reasons why I'm kind of shifting more towards consulting from IB.

I understand there's a Business Economics major that's seen as less theoretical/quantitative and more practical. I'm thinking of taking this so that I can spend more time on courses that I have more interest in compared to highly theoretical and rigorous math. Also would mean I could maintain a higher GPA (not a math prodigy) and potentially do a "Metcalf micro internship" or two?

Issue is it seems like some people look down on it for its lack of quantitative rigor (like a poster above lol)

Do you think this major might put me at a disadvantage or be looked down upon by MBB?

Thanks for your help

eugamc6

I'm a 2nd yr at UChicago now doing consulting recruiting, and I can say that no one that matters really looks down on the Business Economics Major. If you want to go into banking or consulting, double majoring in Biz Econ is probably ur best bet because you can easily combine it with something like CS, Stats, Data Sci, or a more traditional STEM-oriented major like Chem, Bio, or Math. Plenty of kids here also do very traditional humanities majors like doubling in English and Arabic Studies or something like that and end up in consulting, so you don't need to do Biz Econ to go into consulting, BUT DOING IT ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT HURT YOU. It probably helps with consulting bc you can inflate ur GPA.

Also, Metcalf internships are easy to get. All you need to do is keep applying on the university's career page starting at the beginning of the year, and if you are consistent, you should have an interesting summer job and an extra $5k in the bank by midway spring quarter or earlier.

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thevejeosn

11d

bruh it’s UChicago….why would a school like this gives you any disadvantages at all? I feel like it’s a huge target school everywhere. Transferring from Uchi to NU just for MBB recruiting sounds like a very bad idea unless there’s a specific reason why you prefer NU.

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