Hi admits, I've been recently invited to cocktails to "celebrate your achievement" (i.e.: my getting into MBA programs) by both McKinsey and BCG. Unluckily I cannot attend (I'll be on a biz trip at the moment), but that's not the point.
The point is: are you gals & guys receiving similar invites? If so, what feelings do you get from such invitations? My initial reaction was: "oh, boy, if these guys need to try that hard then it's probably not so fun to work for them", but I'm still digesting it.
Another interesting thing is that I got 1 invite from BCG and 2 from McK. Probably McK invited me twice based on 2 of my admits and BCG either figured it out and did not duplicate or only invited me based on 1 of the admits. Which brings me to the next question: how do they know about admits? Given the peculiarities of the "MBA scene" in my country, I would expect that former McK and BCG employees at the schools shared the contact lists with the former employers. Another option would be that they can access the lists through the school.
So that's that, let's get the discussion going and let's "share the lurv we gettin'"
L.