Is Villanova undergrad a good school for getting into consulting? How does it compare to other schools? Asking for a sibling

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Great school, but can’t say I’ve met a ton of consultants from there.

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What kind of consulting. It's really good for advisory at big 4, especially fdd. Not sure about strategy.
Definitely not mbb unfortunately. It's still way better than the schools I attended.

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Depends on the firm they’re hoping to get into

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What’s a better option that may be similarly competitive school wise? BC or ND?

Are they trying to go to a catholic school? UCLA is ranked about the same as Georgetown and is pretty hard to get into. I know a lot of people that got into Ivy that were declined at UCLA.

All you need is networking and ability to solve case studies you can get into any consulting firm

Villanova has very strong pipeline into B4 consulting, less strong for MBB, but has been increasing a bit over the past few years. It really depends what school you are comparing against.

Boston is a great college town. I don’t think being close to Harvard is a negative.

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