Just curious what is the proportion of ivies at Big 4? What do these people do if they don’t make it into mbb and aren’t interested in banking

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Plenty of Ivy / M7 at EY Parthenon. I recruit at an Ivy and my sense is the people we get are ones who didn’t get MBB offers.
Used to recruit a different M7 when in MBB and the candidates don’t really feel all that different TBH.
As a vet I recruit vets, so maybe that’s a factor.

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Decent amount here; I’d say ~10-15%. They’re mainly people who wanted to do consulting but didn’t get the MBB offer. They’re either low gpa but smart (couldn’t pass the gpa bar to get an interview at MBB) or high gpa but not case polished (got rejected in the MBB interview stage). Most leave after 2 years for greener pastures because their undergrad school gives them a big boost in job searching relative to their non-Ivy peers.

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I’m not quoting any database. This is just my personal experience and estimates.

There are quite a few Ivy/etc at EY within FSO, myself included. Joined as an experienced hire since I never considered consulting as a career path coming out of school and didn’t interview for it. I was never drawn to strategy consulting since I wanted to build tangible things and didn’t know implementation consulting was a thing. It’s a mixed bag school-wise here - for example, around a quarter of my broader project team went to Ivy/etc, another quarter excellent but next tier schools (Georgetown/ND/etc), another quarter state schools, then the remainder places you’ve never heard of. Haven’t really noticed any correlation between school and performance so far.

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I’ve only encountered people from Cornell and Penn. Advisory.

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