<p>Hi i’m a freshman (planning on taking sociology of econ with an econ/business minor) planning on joining the TCG in the near future and i was wondering if someone could answer some questions!</p>
<p>A) How hard is it to get into the TCG</p>
<p>B) What do TCG members look for? (E.g specialities etc…)</p>
<p>C) I am horrendous at math, but it doesn’t mean that i won’t be takaing math courses for my own good, will this be a problem</p>
<p>As someone in currently at business school, I’ll tell you now that these orgs are a joke and will do nothing (or hurt your chances) to get you into consulting/b-school/etc.</p>
<p>Just maintain a 3.5+ GPA and apply for summer internships (paid or unpaid–doesn’t matter much) in consulting/management consulting. UCSD students seem to get internships at Accenture, Deloitte, and Ernst & Young pretty often (at least among my friends).</p>
<p>These orgs will provide you with nothing that will help you get the leg up for consulting opportunities.</p>
<p>Thankyou for your feedback Oyama, however are you at all familiar with the TCG and what they do? Oh and why might they hurt my chances lol?</p>
<p>Yes, i do intend on doing a summer internship with a more professional group (because the TCG actually has clients) however, i feel as if the TCG could give me experience year round and get me a feel of the consulting world before i start! (this is just based on their website statements though)</p>
<p>Anyway, i would like insights into what consulting firms or what type of consulting a sociology major and econ/ business minor like me would accept me? (e.g because i may not be that strong a candidate for stategic consulting like BGC,Mckinsey, Bain’s, Accenture :(</p>
<p>Do you have any tips on how i could at least land a consulting job after i graduate even if it’s with a small group?</p>
<p>*Also keep in mind im not very keen on math but i try to make up in analysis, creativity, critical thinking and being proactive.</p>
<p>My experience (and friends’ experiences) with all the business-oriented orgs on campus has been nothing but drinking/partying with little having to do with gaining any kind of advantage in business. My friends who were in AKPsi and DSP looked the part (e.g., they’d be hilariously overdressed in a full suit on campus), yet I don’t know a single one who got hired by a major firm or had gone to an elite b-school (as far as I know, a 2009 graduate is now at UCLA Anderson, but I wouldn’t consider that an elite). </p>
<p>There’s a certain kind of comfort level that my friends in those orgs had that made them feel as though they were prepared to get top jobs–and that’s dangerous if you want to be in a competitive field like consulting. Consulting firms don’t care if you were in some club. The only thing they look for are strong academics (especially in quant fields: math, stats, econ, engineering, etc.) and strong letters from previous employers. There’s nothing you can learn from a campus org that isn’t already stated in hundreds of web articles/blogs–one of the best being: [How</a> Elite Business Recruiting Really Works - By Jim Manzi - The Corner - National Review Online](<a href=“http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/285160/how-elite-business-recruiting-really-works-jim-manzi]How”>How Elite Business Recruiting Really Works | National Review)</p>
<p>Now that I’m over at Kellogg and am surrounded by dozens (if not hundreds) of people with experience working at top management consulting firms, the underlying denominator is work experience–and the lower rank the school, the more you need. UCSD is NOT heavily recruited in any regard by consulting firms, so you will need to prove your potential by having better grades and more quality internships than a typical T20 undergrad.</p>
<p>I was able to land a high-paying job at a smaller consulting firm right after graduating because I had tons of experience beforehand and kept my grades up with a heavy courseload (22-28 units/quarter the last 2 years). One of my majors was also heavily quant-based (joint math/econ). Although I really think the math was overkill (there were only a few programming/modeling tasks involved in my job), it helped me stand out among other applicants–the employer was a developmental branding/marketing firm and the applicant pool was mostly psychology majors (I doubled in Psych as well) and few others besides me had any kind of quant training.</p>
<p>Learn math; it will carry you further than anything else can–especially in business.</p>
<p>And hey, it’s not my life. If you want to do TCG, go right ahead. I don’t have any experience with them since they started right as I was graduating, but given the trajectory of students/grads of other similar organizations at UCSD, I wouldn’t expect them to be any better.</p>
<p>If you want to learn more about TCG, just visit ucsdconsulting.com and come out to our weekly meetings.</p>
<p>Although Oyama is correct about most business orgs/fraternities, TCG does not fit in with them because we actually have focus in what we want. We’re not just getting degrees because “we want to work in business” like many naive students. </p>
<p>Instead of partying and networking with people who aren’t going to do anything with their lives, you work on cases, prep resumes/interviews FOR CONSULTING FIRMS, and work on real projects with San Diego companies. Oh yeah, our alumni network is really strong and approachable as well. Most are either at a Big 4, investment banking, or top tech firms such as Microsoft and Intel.</p>