Best major for a kid who is interested in consulting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are people really not familiar with management consulting? How old are you? This has been a desirable first job out of school for decades.

Um, not everyone here went to a top college, a college in the US or even to college at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are people really not familiar with management consulting? How old are you? This has been a desirable first job out of school for decades.

Um, not everyone here went to a top college, a college in the US or even to college at all.

Then maybe this is not the thread for them. What use would the by to OP asking for best majors for a career they have never even heard of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are people really not familiar with management consulting? How old are you? This has been a desirable first job out of school for decades.

Um, not everyone here went to a top college, a college in the US or even to college at all.

Why are you in this thread??

[Anonymous]

It’s nice that you are so proud of your child. But if I met him in real life I would want to gag at his overzealous earnestness. He probably think he is doing the world some good too.

I am proud of him. He is making a difference in the world, both personally and work related. How about you? Op asked, I answered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is it and why?

Go to a school where you don't have to pick major for freshman year and its easy to change majors In sophomore or junior year, to stay flexible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is it and why?

Go to a school where you don't have to pick major for freshman year and its easy to change majors In sophomore or junior year, to stay flexible.

High value majors are harder to get in and sometimes impossible to get in later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are people really not familiar with management consulting? How old are you? This has been a desirable first job out of school for decades.

Um, not everyone here went to a top college, a college in the US or even to college at all.

Why are you in this thread??

Because many of us have kids applying to college in the near future?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is it and why?

Go to a school where you don't have to pick major for freshman year and its easy to change majors In sophomore or junior year, to stay flexible.

High value majors are harder to get in and sometimes impossible to get in later.

Depends on the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Consulting is like DEI but for white people.

This made me laugh!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More than major, tell your child to focus on getting into a top school. Consulting is very prestige driven. For a while McKinsey's sophomore analyst program only took students from Harvard, Yale, Duke, and UPenn. Things have opened up since then but top consulting firms still primarily draw from the top undergrad schools. And at those schools you can study anything from history to sociology and land a consulting job as long as you keep a 3.7+ and train yourself to answer the interview questions appropriately.

I tend to agree with this. If you are coming from a top school the major is not so important.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More than major, tell your child to focus on getting into a top school. Consulting is very prestige driven. For a while McKinsey's sophomore analyst program only took students from Harvard, Yale, Duke, and UPenn. Things have opened up since then but top consulting firms still primarily draw from the top undergrad schools. And at those schools you can study anything from history to sociology and land a consulting job as long as you keep a 3.7+ and train yourself to answer the interview questions appropriately.

I tend to agree with this. If you are coming from a top school the major is not so important.

Prestige and major are both important.
Look luck with communications or english major.

[Anonymous]

Read all about it in: “Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs” by Lauren Rivera.

[Anonymous]

Double major in systems engineering and applied mathematics with a minor in philosophy

[Anonymous]

I searched "McKinsey incoming business analyst" and "BCG incoming associate" on LinkedIn and here are the majors and schools of the first dozen-ish that popped up.

Morehouse- mathematics
University of Michigan Ross School of Business - Marketing, Technology & Operation, Management and Statistics
University of Virginia - Management, IT, Global Commerce
Haverford - History Major, Economics and Global Asian Studies Minor
UC Berkeley - Business Administration and Management
Northwestern - Computer Science
UC Berkeley - major not listed
University of Florida - finance
Vassar - major not listed
University of Florida - marketing
Northwestern - Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Ohio State University - Data Analytics with Business Analytics Specialization
University of Michigan - Biomolecular Sciences
Northwestern - philosophy
University of Minnesota - finance
Northwestern - economics and psychology
University of Southern California - business administration
New York University - finance and political science
UNC Chapel Hill - business administration, management consulting, computer science
Vanderbilt - computer science & applied mathematics, minors in business and economics
University of Chicago - economics and astrophysics
Ohio State - finance
Indiana University - information systems, sustainable business
WUSTL - political science and ancient studies
Notre Dame - finance
UC Berkeley - business administration
University of Florida - accounting
University of Chicago - economics, law letters and society
Stanford - economics and public policy
Emory - finance
Dartmouth - economics and cognitive science
Cornell - industrial and labor relations
Purdue - mechanical engineering
Yale - global affairs
UVA - global studies
University of Chicago - economics
UVA - economics and psychology
UC Berkeley - business administration

BCG:
William and Mary - finance
St. Olaf - quantitative economics and psychology
Cornell - applied economics and management
Northwestern - economics
Northwestern - economics, data science
Penn - economics with concentrations in finance and marketing
University of Southern California - industrial engineering
BYU - finance
Duke - economics, public policy and energy
Penn - finance and behavioral economics
Baylor - accounting and finance
Northwestern - economics and data science

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Consulting is like DEI but for white people.

This made me laugh!