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Bain Offices |
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No, its not wrong. |
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01/12/2006 |
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Yes, I agree if there are 5 open spots at the SF office and 20 for the Dallas office, then your chances are likely better at the Dallas office. The west coast offices hire APDs at the consultant level so you have to throw those into the mix as well. But the whole post was about ACs and at the AC level that is not the case due to the argument in my previous thread...
I have personally been involved with recruiting at the MBA level at Haas and Stanford (two highly rated schools). Bain offers roughly 15-20% of the applicants interviews (on the lower end for summer internships). This is a fact. Half of summer intern applicants from top schools getting interviews is just dead wrong.
This being said, my argument again holds that it is much harder to get a summer internship position, so if you get in at any office and then transfer, you likely would have received a full time offer to your new office anyway -> summer internships are given to superstars. Obviously this is not true for every case but not everyone gets their transfer or a full time offer after their internship.
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Half of the summer applicants getting interviews is not dead wrong. I don't know how things work at Haas/Stanford, but i'm very surprised its that low. I know for a fact other top schools interview well over 50% of applicants. I've seen it first hand.
As for your summer internship/transfer hypothesis, I disagree again. Bain usually takes the bulk of their future associates from the summer, at least at the few top schools I have direct contact/experience with. McKinsey, however, takes the bulk during full-time recruiting.
We'll just have to agree to disagree.
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