Hey all, I made a burn account so I can share a story of sub 2.5 gpa student getting offers from multiple MC firms including one from MBB .

Firstly, I'd like to preface this by saying that my purpose in 5 years of college experience was to experience as many and different things as possible. I attended a very strict all boys prep school throughout my entire life starting kindergarten, graduating with high honors (rank 5 out of 120 graduating class) with 2300+ SAT and double digit number of AP courses taken. I just simply wanted to stop studying like a damn machine and experience as much crap as possible. examples include blowing 15k on alcohol in 3 months, racing friends across the continent with rental cars etc etc

So when I did enter a top 20 school as an economics and math double major, enough was enough. I probably attended less than 50 classes throughout my entire college life. I just crammed for mid terms and finals and just wanted to get by while experiencing new things to the full. Now by experinecing, I do not, DO NOT, mean derping around home watching netflix and going to parties. Internships, travel etc was what i wanted.

I started interning starting freshman summer. I worked for a dotcom startup managing expert contacts and taking care of the website. It was fun and all but definitely not the lifestyle I wanted.

I started seeking for other opps during second year. I made some calls to family and friends and landed a strat internship at a fortune 500. It was better, but damn corporate life was boooooooooring.

I wondered what would be dynamic, exciting and thought provoking all at once. I started throwing out resumes like mad in september of my junior year. I landed a gig with Accenture but they wanted me to start right away due to a very busy project schedule and I said sure. I simply told my school i will be on a leave of absence and took an 8 month internship with Accenture strategy. I had found my calling. I worked on a 2 billion dollar go to market strat project for a fortune 30 and damn it was exciting.

Partner (engagement manager) of the project kindly gave me an offer after the internship was over in august. I simply left that hanging and he didn't mind. I still wanted to see more, see what other firms did and what they did better/worse. Because I had taken a semester off, I was still a junior so I had to participate in summer analyst recruiting when I returned. I got some offers from several firms but i decided to try Accenture again, albeit a different office. This time, it was not so great as I landed on a PMO project focusing on change management. Still, I liked the culture, the people, but I wanted to do strategy.

After the summer, I went back to school, preparing to graduate. Clearly I did not have much of a shot at recruiting full time for MBB . I shot for summer internships. I knew that If I could have just a little bit more of a pedigree and recommendations, I could maybe make it through to MBB .

Partner from Accenture who gave me the offer introduced me to a principle from BCG who eventually gave me a summer internship offer. I performed great but the office (non-US) was not giving any offers to summer class this year. What EM did though was refer me to the full time recruiting committee So I could partake in recruiting process for 2016 class. I did and performed outstandingly in the interviews. Because it is one of the biggest holiday season in the country, BCG told me they would get back to me next monday with a decision of offer or not as all partners were on vacation.

I am currently working as a contractor with Deloitte S&O and well just simply waiting for BCG offer.

I know I have not made the breakthrough of an offer yet but still, I am quote happy to say that despite horrenduous GPA, (literally half of what my weighted average in high school was) I still made some ground and hopefully I will get an offer next monday.

To those in trouble because of GPA, although it certainly is important and could work as a barometer, I strongly do believe that other attributes and qualities of your life could make some way for you to break in to MC.

Cheers.

H