<p>For those of you wanting to go into consulting (assume managerial over economic/other types), how have you shaped your course load? Do you take a lot of accounting courses? Finance courses? Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>It actually doesn’t matter. For the consulting company that I signed with for next year, only 1 person was a business major and 1 person was a econ major from Berkeley. The were engineers & liberal arts etc etc. </p>
<p>So coursework doesn’t matter for consulting as much as ability to do case interviews. Generally consulting has a much higher rate of interviews, generally given to anyone with 3.7 and above. However, offers are given based on case interview results. </p>
<p>TLDR: Do whatever you want to get a good GPA.</p>
<p>Wow, really? Only 3.7 or above? I thought consulting was way more competitive than that. </p>
<p>Anyways, I heard of this one UGBA class where it is just one big case study all semester long. I talked to a few consultants at networking events and they said it was the most useful class they took that is related to their job. I forgot the exact name but you can probably ask around.</p>
<p>Thanks! </p>
<p>@starry: May I ask what type of consulting you ended up doing? I currently have five finals (all business courses) for this semester and may end up just cutting one of the classes for a P/NP class. Is this smart to do? </p>
<p>@demoz: Yeah, I’ve been trying to take some consulting-related courses as well. I took 196 with Himelstein last semester and we did a few cases during the semester. Do you remember who teaches that course that you were talking about?</p>
<p>I tried looking it up. From the descriptions, it might be ugba 115, competitive strategy?? This is just a guess though, I’m not completely sure.</p>
<p>I’m doing management consulting. If you have more specific questions, feel free to pm me. </p>
<p>Hmm, I’m not sure about the GPA cutoff, but I think 3.7 is more of a minimum. Usually people are 3.9/4.0.</p>
<p>Take whatever you feel like you can handle. Some people can handle 30 units, some people can handle 13. So do whatever you feel like is good for you. It doesn’t really matter xD</p>
<p>@HelloAll, can you share your experience in taking 196 with Himelstein- was it a lot of work? was it easy? do you learn a lot? etc. Thanks!</p>
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