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If you have any recommendations on preparing for case interviews that would be great too. Appreciate your insights.

thanks rhyme. always helpful.

I trust rhyme will write a more useful post with actual hints, but for easy reference the process (in chronological order) works as follows:

1) The consulting firms that recruit on campus begin the marketing (aka "stalking") as soon as the school allows them to. At some schools, this means day 1 while at others it means after the blackout period.

2) Marketing takes many forms, such as:
- They send you a binder with info on their firm and a letter listing your classmates which use to work at the firm, urging you to contact them.
- They fund cocktails or other gatherings through these students to promote interactions.
- They send both general and specific e-mails based on the clubs you joined or your career preferences as stated in the resume book, urging you to apply and/or contact their partners (or alumni from your school) at office XYZ.
- They organize conference calls with students and current employees.
- They organize lots of cocktails for you to meet people from the different offices. These cocktails are typically invite only, although if you keep in touch with classmates from each firm (and office), chances are you'll get invited to most.

(All the above- and much more- takes place before the application deadline)

3) Once you apply (typically through their website), and assuming they like your resume, they'll invite you to interview. Note that to apply you typically need to choose a specific office.

4) You go for first round interview. These almost always involve 1 or 2 cases and some other questions (why consulting, why firm XYZ, etc.). Some firms invite a lot of people to 1st round interviews and get really selective after that. Other firms are more selective in their 1st round invitations.

5) If you make it to the next round, you'll typically need to interview with a very senior person at the office where you will work.

6) If they like you, they make you an offer with a specific deadline.

L.

Speaking with alumni from my school.
They said to me only approx 10% of people who applied to consulting where asked for their GMAT score!!!
There's a current alumni who is at a big4 consultancy with a GMAT of 650.

Basic premise is that a higher GMAT/GPA may make it easier to open some interview doors, but it's not a showstopper if you don't have high scores.

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Rhyme, thanks for all the information. Would you be able to comment on the geographical mobility that the big 3 will give their consultants... for example, I want to go to Hong Kong and I am a Mckinsey consultant in the US. Do I need to have a good reason for this or is it quite flexible?