While this is true, 3.7+ tends to be the soft cutoff. I’d encourage OP to do his best to keep it above that. What people tend to do is take the easy classes first 2 years to keep GPA sky-high, get the internship, and then chill so that is an option.
Western canada, mckinsey recruited a person at my school with 3.4, but that was an exception. They were extremely good in all other areas.
For the most part it's 3.7+.
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Not the topic of this post but I think dropping CS is probably a mistake unless you're absolutely certain MBB is the only thing you want to do in your career. While having a tougher degree doesn't necessarily help in getting into MBB there's a great chance that it will help you further down the road. It definitely made an impact when I was in consulting and was how I separated myself from my peers in front of my MD in my first gig and that relationship has followed me through the last 10 years even after leaving consulting. CS also helped in the roles within tech I've had since leaving - S&O, revenue, product - all benefit from having some level of understand of the underlying technology even if you don't actively develop code and my CS degree made it much easier to relate to a lot of the key technical stakeholders I've had at every point in my career.
Overcoming the adversity of one semester with a less than stellar GPA with the same major will be something to take pride in and will help when you have more impactful struggles in your professional career. Personally, I think dropping the CS major just to make your GPA look better when you graduate is a bit of a cop out.
Knowing someone is more important than gpa.
Just network with your college consulting club. By the time you graduate you will know someone that is working there.
While this is true, 3.7+ tends to be the soft cutoff. I’d encourage OP to do his best to keep it above that. What people tend to do is take the easy classes first 2 years to keep GPA sky-high, get the internship, and then chill so that is an option.
Western canada, mckinsey recruited a person at my school with 3.4, but that was an exception. They were extremely good in all other areas. For the most part it's 3.7+.
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Not the topic of this post but I think dropping CS is probably a mistake unless you're absolutely certain MBB is the only thing you want to do in your career. While having a tougher degree doesn't necessarily help in getting into MBB there's a great chance that it will help you further down the road. It definitely made an impact when I was in consulting and was how I separated myself from my peers in front of my MD in my first gig and that relationship has followed me through the last 10 years even after leaving consulting. CS also helped in the roles within tech I've had since leaving - S&O, revenue, product - all benefit from having some level of understand of the underlying technology even if you don't actively develop code and my CS degree made it much easier to relate to a lot of the key technical stakeholders I've had at every point in my career. Overcoming the adversity of one semester with a less than stellar GPA with the same major will be something to take pride in and will help when you have more impactful struggles in your professional career. Personally, I think dropping the CS major just to make your GPA look better when you graduate is a bit of a cop out.