How would you explain the different caliber of people of MBB vs Big 4/ACN? Curious to hear your thoughts

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Why are most undergrads that get into MBB people from Ivy League with summa cum laude honors with extensive involvement on and outside of campus? On the other hand, big 4 and ACN are the top students from state universities with decent grades and moderate involvement. That is my observation from people that get admitted into big 4 vs MBB

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For MBB vs. Big 4 broadly, the gap is significant even though the curves overlap (I.e. there are people at any firm far smarter and more capable than the bottom X% at MBB).

MBB talent distribution is also tighter IMO.

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Honestly the quality of people below PL is equal to or maybe even below the B4 strategy group I came from.

It’s because B4 keeps PMI, ops, etc out of strategy, whereas MBB all those people are in the same generalist pool.

At PL and above quality starts to diverge in favor of MBB.

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out of undergrad it's similar because same cohort are recruiting and it's whoever doesn't make a mistake I. e. sequencing success in interviews.

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True answer will offend many people so I guess people won’t say anything here haha

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brilliant people in both places, it’s just that N is bigger in ACN/B4 and some type of work is more chill

It’s probably more similar than people think

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