Best major for a kid who is interested in consulting

[Anonymous]

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.

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Anonymous wrote:I think most people here are missing a vital aspect of consulting, and that is positioning oneself as a trusted advisor to the c-level. This requires certain intangibles to be sure. But an ability to understand a business, business processes, cost centers, organizational dynamics, change management, key performance indicators and scorecarding, training, employee unions, negotiation, facilitation, and communications are all skills of a good consultant. In my experience, the most valuable (or perhaps I should say most difficult to come by) of these is change management and facilitation.

This is a word salad of business jargon that essentially has no meaning.

I give you points for picking up on “business”. But from your answer I can tell you have never worked with an MBA from a decent school.

This thread is hilarious. As a former consultant I understood every word and it's amusing to me that to someone else it's like a mysterious language they can't make out. And that there are people who have no idea what management consultants do. It's not like there aren't many of us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What kind of kid is interested in consulting??

I have a brother in law who was a consultant at McKinsey. He was/is a highly centered individual with a strong sense of purpose and a lovely person to be around.

He is the only McKinsey consultant I ever met that I liked as a person. My DD was dating one and I was so glad they broke up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How can an 18 year old be interested in "consulting?" I'm 49 and I'm not even completely sure what consulting is or what they do.

I work in Management Consulting.
You look for problems then sell a fix, and then create more problems to sell more fixes.

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Anonymous wrote:Information systems

You can go tech or management/strategy side. Our entire major was scooped up by consulting firms when I graduated.

This or data analytics

Data science, not data analytics.

Data analytics at a 'good' undergrad business program is a great option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What kind of kid is interested in consulting??

Hard working ambitious kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of kid is interested in consulting??

Hard working ambitious kids.

+1000

[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.

Wharton kids have better odds than CAS

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of kid is interested in consulting??

Hard working ambitious kids.

Intelligent, hard working, ambitious kids are sought by MC firms. Being hard working and ambitious is not enough.

[Anonymous]

In this thread, we are not interested in your impression about the field.

Good majors for consulting

- Undergrad business (finance, analytics, etc.)
- Econ
- Engineering
- Math/Stat/CS

[Anonymous]

I heard that MBB salaries don’t adjust for COL nationally and that they pay the same including if you work in offices like Philly, Detroit, St. Louis etc. I heard it’s also easier to get into those offices if you can come up with a good story as to why you want to be in that office. Is this true?

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of kid is interested in consulting??

Hard working ambitious kids.

Intelligent, hard working, ambitious kids are sought by MC firms. Being hard working and ambitious is not enough.

The question was 'What kind of kid is interested in consulting'

Of course, if you are intelligent, hard working, and ambitions, you'll have better odd to be successful.

[Anonymous]

Binge watch "House of Lies" on Showtime. It's a great documentary about management consulting.

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Anonymous wrote:Binge watch "House of Lies" on Showtime. It's a great documentary about management consulting.

It's not a documentary.
It's a dramatized comedy.

[Anonymous]

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