<p>MBB recruiting is mostly regional. IE the Atlanta office of Bain recruits at 7-8 schools including Duke, UVA, Davidson, and Emory. It is possible to request a different office, and students have gone to other offices of MBB, but your chances go down. </p>
<p>The company line is that it would be just as difficult for a Ivy student to interview for the Atlanta office as it would be for an Emory student to interview for NYC. </p>
<p>GoEagle check your PMs</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply!</p>
<p>Well, I’m planning to stay in the South so Emory seems like a good deal for me. And for now I think I’ll stay with my plan on majoring in Economics while taking several Goizueta classes.</p>
<p>phaeth, I did not receive a PM.</p>
<p>goizueta gets alot better recruiting than economics.</p>
<p>To be honest, I know quite a few of my bschool classmates (I graduated from the bschool myself this past May) that graduated with a double major in O&M (organization and management) or some other BBA concentration AND economics. Some even graduate with 2 BBA concentrations and economics. Most students at Goizueta double major if they can (unless they’re accounting majors, then its more difficult). You will graduate with ONLY a BBA (not both a BBA and a BA), but your diploma when you graduate will list both your bschool major and economics, should you choose to double major.</p>
<p>It is very doable and I would actually suggest it. Start with economics major courses and the prerequisites for the business school (you will not enter the business school until 2nd semester of sophomore year at the very earliest). If you still want to do your current plan in a couple years, apply for the business school and take up a BBA concentration. By then, it’s likely you may have almost finished your economics major.</p>
<p>I highly suggest that if you really want to still work for a management firm in a couple years, you should join the business school. Here’s why. There is a large difference in a business school student trying to get a job with the top management consulting firms and an economics students trying to do the same. Goizueta prepared us very well. Requirements to graduate include networking seminars and communications courses that prepares you well for speeches and interviews. We place a heavy focus on networking and company recruiters that you will want to interview for network with us every week. It is a huge advantage to be prepared for these events by the best of the best and to have your face become well known by the industry professionals and recruiters. </p>
<p>The business schools BRING the top management company recruiters TO YOU during the networking events and seminars if you’re in the business school… a luxury that the purely economics students do not get. Students not in the business school have to go the extra mile to find them. Goizueta has placed my class in the top firms of every concentration: Deloitte, Bain, PwC, E&Y, Barclays, Accenture, KPMG, and so on. Sometimes, these internship and fulltime interviews are only open to students with BBA concentrations.</p>
<p>Economics students may have the same talents, but they will not exit junior year with the same skill sets. And if they do, they had to work so much harder to learn via trial and error what we business school students learned through classes, seminars, and events that force us to try out what we learned in class. We enter the job interviews much more prepared not because we tried harder but because we were given the best resources and forced to use them until they became second nature to us.</p>
<p>Please understand that most people change their minds from when they enter as freshmen. I would not suggest only taking the business prerequisites and not branching out to try any other courses. I switched from a chemistry major to the business school during sophomore year. People have a much stronger tendency to figure out what they want once they’re immersed with different options and they see what they’re passionate about.</p>
<p>Don’t discount Ross. It’s a target for Investment Banks, and from the information on the websites, Umich in general is a semi-target for MBB, on the level of Northwestern, but definitely not Harvard. However because Ross accepts very few transfers, the chances of you transferring directly from Emory are slim. </p>
<p>Now to the real point of my post: While the above poster makes some very good points, I don’t think the undergraduate business program is going to help you very much to get into MBB. I’ve talked to an analyst at one the MBBs, and he said that he didn’t find one business major in the analyst class. Also this person went to a top public school (Berkley, Michigan) that has a very respectable undergraduate business program (Hass and Ross both receive much better coverage from “prestigious” firms, than Goizueta does). And the fact that no one in the analyst class was a business major tells me that MBB doesn’t really care about a business degree. I mean sure as an IB analyst, a business degree will help you because you’ll already be familiar with accounting and finance, and therefore be more ready than your peers without a business degree who are seeing it for the first time during the training programs.</p>
<p>However, there isn’t as much technical stuff at MBB, and they already have an extensive program to train new recruits. My advice would be to choose a relevant or a rigorous major (Economics, Business, Math, Hard Science) in a subject that interests you and aim for the highest GPA possible. Transferring to another school (Duke, Vanderbilt) is going to help you a bit, but if you like Emory don’t feel obliged to transfer.</p>
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<p>The difference between Vanderbilt and Emory is negligible.</p>
<p>Trust me, I think it is as well. It’s just that on at least one MBB firm’s website recruited at Vanderbilt and not at Emory. I don’t really understand it either…</p>