Do you feel like your MBA prepared you for the consulting interviews? Like after the MBA, did you understand how to size up a market and so on?

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Yes, I actually used the “cases” I worked on/learned from MBA as examples/experiences during the interviews.

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not the classes at all, but the consulting club did

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I would say yes. Took a lot of strategy courses which talked about frameworks, communication & some quantitive analysis. Of course the case prep helps you put that all together in a short amount of time and come across as polished.

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Agreed with this

Yes. Absolutely. You have to understand how businesses work to master cases and solve business problems thinking creatively.

Market sizing on a case an excercise only for interviews. You don’t size markets that way in the real world.

Yes, but not the MBA classes. Every top tier school has a consulting club that helps you prepare for weeks/months before interviews start.

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