How much school pride do Cornell students have?

NYULawyer
Sat, 27 Oct 2012 09:41:50 +0000

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Yes. You are absolutely correct. Just to land a first round interview at a firm such as McKinsey, BCG, or Bain, you would need 3.7+ GPA even from Harvard.

It also should be mentioned, even if you make it to first round, odds are heavily against you to land an offer. At my law school, only 1-2 people got offers from McKinsey out of 65-70 people who interviewed. Here, I am talking about associate positions, not analyst positions.

Honestly though, in this hiring environment, you will be lucky to graduate college with just a decent corporate job paying 50k/yr. Even if you went to Harvard, if you majored in a non-quantitative discipline (humanities) and had unattractive GPA for consulting or finance firms, chances are overwhelming that you could face unemployment at graduation, or take a 35k/yr job doing Peace Corps or some other non profit gig.