Sorry to hear about the ding. I do want to address your post because I don't think it's entirely accurate. I have not seen a jobs report lately, but I know the class of '12 had some great placement regarding consulting.
LSnyder876 wrote:
I actually talked to the "Consulting guy" in the Career Management Center as part of the application process (apparently the Adcom had a "career-related concern about my application"). The numbers aren't amazing. This is from memory, so take it with a grain of salt. He said they don't have as much trouble with career placement as they do internship placement. They place about 33% of the people who want it in consulting internships. A lot end up taking general management, marketing, or whatever internships. Not a lot to the big 3 for internships. I believe he said they had 2 go big 3 last year, one at Bain, one at McKinsey, and 1 go to BCG this year. Big employers for Goizueta are Deloitte, KSA, IBM, and some others (again this is from memory). Most firms recruit on campus, the only firm missing was Booz.
John (our consulting guy) is an overall great guy. I'm not a consulting person, the travel isn't for me, but he's a real good guy to talk to about any career issues. The big 3 comment is correct. We have 2 people from '12 going to McKinsey full time. I don't think we have any going to BCG although 8 had 1st round interviews there and at least 2 got a final round there. I know we have 1 going to Bain full time.
Deloitte, Accenture, IBM, KSA, Capgemeni, PWC, E&Y, McKesson do recruit and hire many people each year from Goizueta. They're great employers and my classmates were all happy to be working for their respective companies.
The 33% numbers seems very low to me. I think you misinterpreted that (although I could be wrong). I believe roughly 1/3 of the class will be taking consulting jobs, as opposed to the way I'm reading it here.
LSnyder876 wrote:
I wasn't crazy excited about the internship prospects. He rated them (with respect to consulting placement) as similar to South Carolina or some other Southern schools. He said Duke sent more, but there "you had more competition." The numbers were better when it came to career placement, but I don't remember anything specific.
The Duke line is one we hear a lot. Emory respects Duke a lot and being that they're both in the south, we do have a lot of overlap in the applicant pool. I think the career center likes to position us against Duke because of that. I can't address competition at Duke - I don't know how their process works first hand. I can say that if you're at Emory and a consulting company is coming on campus and you have the GMAT score for it (consulting companies want high GMATs), you have to really screw something up to not get a 1st round with that firm. We have a great alumni base at each of these firms and they work hard to get our current students offers. I've never seen anywhere where the alumni give back so much career-wise. It truly is remarkable.