Anonymous
Post 03/21/2023 10:51     Subject: Re:Which schools DON'T go to the "other" pile for McKinsey?

I'm not sure if the listed schools are actual targets.
Some of them are actually real targets, and some mayabe semi-targets.

Nonetheless it's a good information.
You get an idea which schools get respect, and not just from McKinsey, but from the industry as a whole.

Anonymous
Post 03/21/2023 09:57     Subject: Re:Which schools DON'T go to the "other" pile for McKinsey?

Anonymous wrote:If they start talking about it as a huge goal, have them read When McKinsey Comes to Town or any of a number of articles about their "great" and "objective" work as non-decision makers.
Not only is it an unlikely goal, it is also a questionable one. Without the "doing good" part, you really might as well make more at Goldman. McKinsey doesn't shine on a CV quite like it used to when most on DCUM were coming out of college and grad school.


I read the book and I am now convinced that McK is the reason the US has declined so much in the past 50 years. Because of them we have seen the outsourcing and off-shoring of jobs, the wage gap grow, increased opioid usage, increased smoking (worldwide) and the list goes on and on.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2023 09:44     Subject: Re:Which schools DON'T go to the "other" pile for McKinsey?

They are looking for high achievers and not having a homogeneous group is becoming more and more important to consulting clients. To boil it down to AA or religion is a bad look for those posters and isn't correct. McKinsey basically always gives the client what they want.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2023 09:41     Subject: Which schools DON'T go to the "other" pile for McKinsey?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Not sure why anyone would want to work at McKinsey


Money. Perceived status to a small number of people. Money. And money.


Only for the partners. Otherwise, management consulting is a grind.

There is a great documentary about McKinsey on Showtime called “House of Lies.”
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2023 09:39     Subject: Re:Which schools DON'T go to the "other" pile for McKinsey?

If they start talking about it as a huge goal, have them read When McKinsey Comes to Town or any of a number of articles about their "great" and "objective" work as non-decision makers.
Not only is it an unlikely goal, it is also a questionable one. Without the "doing good" part, you really might as well make more at Goldman. McKinsey doesn't shine on a CV quite like it used to when most on DCUM were coming out of college and grad school.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2023 09:35     Subject: Re:Which schools DON'T go to the "other" pile for McKinsey?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It isn't like they are going to hire many people this year anyway! These are part of a basic recruiting site and don't even reflect interview numbers or number of people hired. Don't encourage your kids to join McKinsey. Their reputation has taken a hit. If they want $$, look at finance and hedge funds, and if they want quality of life and reach, look at a tech. Consulting is a stepping stone but execs and politicians have been distancing themselves more and more from their previous employers for a reason. That was before "the book" came out too.


Many in tech will be cannibalized by AI... the current layoffs are being used for tech companies to cover up for cutting projects that they would have otherwise cut a long time ago


Process improvement and efficiency work are going to require far fewer people for the same reasons. Get the numbers and the vaunted decks will essentially build themselves!
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2023 09:05     Subject: Re:Which schools DON'T go to the "other" pile for McKinsey?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Revised
(Not in order)

T20

Princeton University
Harvard University
Yale University
University of Pennsylvania
Dartmouth College
Brown University
Cornell University
Columbia University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University
University of Chicago
Johns Hopkins University
Duke University
Northwestern University
Vanderbilt University
Washington University in St. Louis
University of Notre Dame
University of California, Berkeley

20+

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Texas at Austin
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Florida
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Michigan
University of Virginia
Emory University
Georgetown University
University of Southern California
Wake Forest University
Boston College
Boston University
Northeastern
Brigham Young University
Howard University

LACs

Williams College
Amherst College
One page for all of the Seven Sisters


Rice and UCLA didn't make the list form T20.
NYU is top school for finance but not so much for consulting



Interesting. The state flagships on here, as well as USC, accept transfers from community colleges in their respective states. How would doing that path affect McKinsey recruiting?


PSA to everyone on this thread: do not pressure your children to follow this path. Rounding to the nearest whole number, they have exactly a 0% chance of getting hired as a BA even if they attend a target school. Most hiring happens at the post-grad school level. This is not a path to plan around and youre going to make your children feel as if they’ve failed. Just stop. Let your adult children find their way.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2023 09:02     Subject: Re:Which schools DON'T go to the "other" pile for McKinsey?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Revised
(Not in order)

T20

Princeton University
Harvard University
Yale University
University of Pennsylvania
Dartmouth College
Brown University
Cornell University
Columbia University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University
University of Chicago
Johns Hopkins University
Duke University
Northwestern University
Vanderbilt University
Washington University in St. Louis
University of Notre Dame
University of California, Berkeley

20+

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Texas at Austin
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Florida
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Michigan
University of Virginia
Emory University
Georgetown University
University of Southern California
Wake Forest University
Boston College
Boston University
Northeastern
Brigham Young University
Howard University

LACs

Williams College
Amherst College
One page for all of the Seven Sisters


Rice and UCLA didn't make the list form T20.
NYU is top school for finance but not so much for consulting



Interesting. The state flagships on here, as well as USC, accept transfers from community colleges in their respective states. How would doing that path affect McKinsey recruiting?


They'll check your transcript and know you are a transfer student, but I don't think they would care as much as how you did at the school you are getting the degree from

Anonymous
Post 03/21/2023 08:55     Subject: Re:Which schools DON'T go to the "other" pile for McKinsey?

Anonymous wrote:Revised
(Not in order)

T20

Princeton University
Harvard University
Yale University
University of Pennsylvania
Dartmouth College
Brown University
Cornell University
Columbia University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University
University of Chicago
Johns Hopkins University
Duke University
Northwestern University
Vanderbilt University
Washington University in St. Louis
University of Notre Dame
University of California, Berkeley

20+

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Texas at Austin
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Florida
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Michigan
University of Virginia
Emory University
Georgetown University
University of Southern California
Wake Forest University
Boston College
Boston University
Northeastern
Brigham Young University
Howard University

LACs

Williams College
Amherst College
One page for all of the Seven Sisters


Rice and UCLA didn't make the list form T20.
NYU is top school for finance but not so much for consulting



Interesting. The state flagships on here, as well as USC, accept transfers from community colleges in their respective states. How would doing that path affect McKinsey recruiting?
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2023 08:46     Subject: Re:Which schools DON'T go to the "other" pile for McKinsey?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Northeastern has its own page.

https://www.mckinsey.com/Careers/Students/Undergraduate-Degree-Candidates/Northeastern-University


PP here. I went back over the T100 national universities and T50 LACs and that was the only one I missed. Nonetheless, it's a shocker


It's not a shocker when schools like BU WF BYU and Howard are there.
Northeastern has a great business program.

In fact not really a shocker for Howard actually. It's there for affirmative action.
Does McKinsey has anything to do with Mormon?


We got you the first time you posted this.


That was my first post on this thread.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2023 08:44     Subject: Re:Which schools DON'T go to the "other" pile for McKinsey?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Northeastern has its own page.

https://www.mckinsey.com/Careers/Students/Undergraduate-Degree-Candidates/Northeastern-University


PP here. I went back over the T100 national universities and T50 LACs and that was the only one I missed. Nonetheless, it's a shocker


It's not a shocker when schools like BU WF BYU and Howard are there.
Northeastern has a great business program.

In fact not really a shocker for Howard actually. It's there for affirmative action.
Does McKinsey has anything to do with Mormon?


We got you the first time you posted this.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2023 08:42     Subject: Re:Which schools DON'T go to the "other" pile for McKinsey?

Revised
(Not in order)

T20

Princeton University
Harvard University
Yale University
University of Pennsylvania
Dartmouth College
Brown University
Cornell University
Columbia University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University
University of Chicago
Johns Hopkins University
Duke University
Northwestern University
Vanderbilt University
Washington University in St. Louis
University of Notre Dame
University of California, Berkeley

20+

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Texas at Austin
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Florida
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Michigan
University of Virginia
Emory University
Georgetown University
University of Southern California
Wake Forest University
Boston College
Boston University
Northeastern
Brigham Young University
Howard University

LACs

Williams College
Amherst College
One page for all of the Seven Sisters


Rice and UCLA didn't make the list form T20.
NYU is top school for finance but not so much for consulting

Anonymous
Post 03/21/2023 08:38     Subject: Re:Which schools DON'T go to the "other" pile for McKinsey?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It isn't like they are going to hire many people this year anyway! These are part of a basic recruiting site and don't even reflect interview numbers or number of people hired. Don't encourage your kids to join McKinsey. Their reputation has taken a hit. If they want $$, look at finance and hedge funds, and if they want quality of life and reach, look at a tech. Consulting is a stepping stone but execs and politicians have been distancing themselves more and more from their previous employers for a reason. That was before "the book" came out too.


Many in tech will be cannibalized by AI... the current layoffs are being used for tech companies to cover up for cutting projects that they would have otherwise cut a long time ago


Luckily my kid will be writing the code for AI.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2023 08:36     Subject: Re:Which schools DON'T go to the "other" pile for McKinsey?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Northeastern has its own page.

https://www.mckinsey.com/Careers/Students/Undergraduate-Degree-Candidates/Northeastern-University


PP here. I went back over the T100 national universities and T50 LACs and that was the only one I missed. Nonetheless, it's a shocker


It's not a shocker when schools like BU WF BYU and Howard are there.
Northeastern has a great business program.

In fact not really a shocker for Howard actually. It's there for affirmative action.
Does McKinsey has anything to do with Mormon?


I don't know. I would assume Bain recruits there (Romney) so maybe that's why?
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2023 08:29     Subject: Re:Which schools DON'T go to the "other" pile for McKinsey?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Northeastern has its own page.

https://www.mckinsey.com/Careers/Students/Undergraduate-Degree-Candidates/Northeastern-University


PP here. I went back over the T100 national universities and T50 LACs and that was the only one I missed. Nonetheless, it's a shocker


It's not a shocker when schools like BU WF BYU and Howard are there.
Northeastern has a great business program.

In fact not really a shocker for Howard actually. It's there for affirmative action.
Does McKinsey has anything to do with Mormon?