I heard the consulting interviewing was going failry well at Johnson, but it definetely helped to list a Minneapolis or Cleveland versus a NYC or Boston. I would say Fuqua is your best of the three mentioned.

^ not true. lots of MBB at Fuqua this year, send me a PM if you want

Don't be worried by the low summer associate numbers. This job is a walk in the park and you get paid asinine amounts of money compared to the value that you actually add to the firm (honestly have seen summer associates fly home on a wednesday night and dick around in the office thursday/friday). Also, there are a lot of perks besides hourly wage that get grouped in with summer interns (larger signing bonus, tuition reimbursement, etc).

Essentially they only hire those that they know for a fact other firms will steal if they don't snatch up and spoil them. Consultants get so jelly.

Redninja's report soundds about right. Spoke to a first year at an m7 who said:

- internship hiring is actually more competitive than first-year hiring because there are less spots
- there are still a TON of spots
- McK alone interviewed 100 students for internships
- odd distribution in open/closed lists; I know someone who networked well and got invited to 1st rounds for Bain and BCG and didn't get final round interviews, and this same person bid for McKinsey (wasn't invited) and got a final round
- a bit over half of those interested in consulting end up at MBB for their internships
- obviously most of the rest go to Deloitte, Booz, Monitor, AT Kearney etc
- the GMAT actually correlates strongly with pecking-order success
- consulting became a lot more popular as it captured the lion's share of disenchanted finance folks
- influx of competition was at least partially matched by increase in spots; up roughly 10%