Generally for MBB/tier 2 strat houses:
Target Universities:Oxbridge (roughly ~50-70% of the intake) > LSE/Imperial (~20-30%) > UCL/Warwick + Bristol/Bath/Edinburgh/St Andrews/Durham (~8-15%) > everything else (~0-3%)
The MiM from LBS places very well too.
^Scoured Linkedin to confirm this.
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Uni Career Progression 1. Penultimate internship (MBB/tier 2) -> grad conversion/apply to better firm
2. SW (optional) --> penultimate intern in a front office finance role (IBD/S&T/AM/Research) at a top bank (BB/Elite Boutique) ---> (convert for back up) --> apply for grad in final year (renegotiate, i.e. turn it down, on conversion offer if you successfully attained a consulting offer)
3. Penultimate intern at a blue chip F500/FTSE100 (Google, P&G, L'oreal, Unilever, Microsoft etc) company in a business/technical function (Marketing/Finance/Operations/R&D/Software Eng/whatever)--> apply for grad in final year
4. Tier 3 internship (i.e. poorer bank,
big4 normal consulting, non-brand name company, poorer consulting firms) --> apply for grad final year
1, 2 and 3 will yield the best results.
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Of course all the extra stuff: 1st (ideally) or 2:1, any academic degree, strong problem solving skills, leadership experience, extracurricular involvement etc.
Bottom line is do stuff you find interesting, and do it well. You'll get noticed if you achieve highly in a non-well-trodden area than if you're average in the well trodden path.
NOTE: This is for top tier strategy. Regular Big4 consulting, Accenture, IBM, CHP, et al will be much less persnickety about backgrounds.
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