Tuck v Yale for recruiting (Consulting, social impact)

Two fantastic schools. You will definitely find a bit more of non profit minded culture at Yale but consulting is a strong suit for both schools.

Tuck is most famous for its Alum support base but Yale beats it with the name recognition outside of the US. Almost forgot - Yale does offer loan forgiveness to grads who go into non-profit; this may be a nice differentiator. Have you looked into that?

Very close call. Congratulations on getting into both!




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Based on the fact that Yale is giving more $$$ and because of their strength in the non-profit sector, I would go with Yale SOM. It's also not like they're a slouch when it comes to recruiting for consulting either.

I would love some advice re: Yale v Tuck. Considerations: I'm coming from a non-profit background, but planning to transition to consulting. I want to keep the door open to transition back into the non-profit/social impact world as well, however. I have visited both schools, and while I liked both, I got a slightly better feeling about the Yale community. I was also offered a scholarship at both schools -- slightly more at Yale. I'm leaning towards Yale, but I am hesitant because I think the recruiting resources for my interests may be better at Tuck. I'm interested if people have general thoughts on school culture, as well as recruiting resources for students.

All MBB of course recruit on campus plus the other major firms and more niche ones. Check the latest employment report if you haven't already; the class of 2016 did really well for consulting and I'll say really strong placements for MBB within that. We've had students place internationally across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East so geographic options are certainly available if that's what you're looking for. For the US most people fall into the NYC, Boston, DC, Chicago, SF and LA areas (moving geographically East to West; not in terms of numbers of placements). Most end up being generalists based on how the firms hire and for McK we've had traction across their generalist program as well as the implementation and digital practices. Relatedly for the likes of a Deloitte or PwC there are people who have more general strategy roles as well as operations and human capital. All these functions have recruited on campus.

For current recruiting info, it'd be best to reach out to the consulting club specifically (contact info for clubs should be up on the website). They may have more specific stats they can give out.


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I'm copy pasting a response from the Yale admitted student's thread which is highly relevant here:

In terms of consulting SOM does well, but specifically looking at MBB rates, Tuck is still a fair bit ahead (class of 2016). With that said, if you think you'll be going back to social impact / non-profit and SOM has given you a scholarship, go to SOM. They have a better loan forgiveness program as well.

Hey Flyte where did you find placements for the class of 2016? I can't find it published. It looks like for the class of 2015 that percentage was 16.7% approximately.

Also I reached out to the consulting club at Yale and they said Yale SOM's MBB placement in 2016 was around 15%. FWIW they said that number has been steadily increasing over the last few years.

Any difference in recruiting opportunities for consulting is probably not great. While MBB placement seems more impressive at Tuck, this may be a result of more students coming to Tuck with consulting background. I don't think it is a stretch to say that people with non-profit background find it harder to break into consulting than those that come from the consulting world.

Would you mind sharing your profile for future applicants? Your admission outcome is top notch!

Did you have a chance to speak to the consulting club this weekend at Welcome Weekend? The placements were really impressive this year for MBB. I think it was 24 McKinsey, 18 for Bain, and about 15 for BCG. They tripled their placements in Bain and BCG this past year though for a smaller program it seems more feasible.

If you saw the numbers the CDO provided those were for the previous years' class.

Keeping this in mind I think Tuck has more clout with LEK, Parthenon-EY, and other smaller firms. I was told Yale SOM is becoming more well-respected by those types of firms but might not be on the level of Tuck.