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Bain Offices |
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Answer from a former Southern AC |
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01/07/2006 |
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"Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT) while the other offices seem to recruit from regional U's - Emory, GTech, Texas,etc. While those schools are great and I'm sure their students are very bright, they may not be in the same league as the others. Is this also seen by ACs at Bain?"
Bain obviously can't recruit 300 ACs for all their offices from the Ivys alone, so each office recruits regionally, but ACs from any school may also ask for the office of their choice.
Now, to answer your question:
If you're asking whether its easier to get into a Southern office than to an New York/Boston office, the answer is it depends on two factors:
1) office specific supply/demand ratio
2) quality of applicants to a specific office -> this affects your individual chances
1) typically large northeastern cities and San Francisco, see higher supply of applicants (both from their respective regional schools and applicants from other schools that want to live in those big cities, i.e. NYC), so your chances might be a little better at a least popular office location, but then do you really wanna live in that city?
2) quality of applicants, here
I have to tell you this: the Southern offices are smaller, therefore traditionally they need fewer ACs. Therefore they take very few (think 1-2) ACs from each college (Duke, Emory, Texas, Georgia Tech, UVA).
So if Boston office takes 20 ACs(made up of Rockstars 5, Lots of Potential 5, Good 10) from Harvard, Dallas office takes only 1 Rockstar from Emory/Texas, chances are that 1 Rockstar from Emory/Texas is in better than 75% guys from Harvard. So do I think that Southern ACs are in a different league? Absolutely not. Please, remember that while attending Ivy League is impressive, there are individuals at Southern schools that will blow many Ivy kids out of the water, and they didn't go to Harvard for family reasons, etc.
But, realisticly it's hard to get hired at ANY office, but your chances might be slightly better in less popular offices.
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