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Fundamentals
Tell Me About Yourself Consulting: A 90-Second Map
Learn how consulting interviewers use tell me about yourself to pick follow-ups, with three original spoken answers, the hooks each plants, and what a partner notes.
Firm guides
PwC Cover Letter: Skip It Unless This Member Firm Asks
Many PwC member firms do not require a cover letter. Learn the jurisdiction table, when to write, and how to map proof to PwC Professional.
Firm guides
PwC Assessment Test: US vs UK Formats, Prep by Firm
PwC assessments differ by member firm. Map the US work-styles screen, UK SHL cognitive battery, and CEE games so you prep the right route.
Frameworks
Market Attractiveness: Score the Market, Not the Hype
Why market attractiveness is relative: GE–McKinsey roots, Porter structure, a case failure mode, and a scored comparison of two markets with real numbers.
Getting started
Freshmen Don't Get Consulting Internships. Here's the Plan
Almost no firm hires freshmen into consulting internships. Verify real early programs, then build a two-year plan for sophomore screens.
Frameworks
Decision Trees in Cases: Choices, Chance, and When EV Lies
Build a real case decision tree: decision nodes, chance nodes, expected value, and when risk, irreversibility, or information value overturns the math.
Fundamentals
Consulting vs Venture Capital: Seats, Carry, and Odds
Consulting vs VC is industrial advice versus a tiny seat market. Compare fund carry math, NVCA scale, HBS placement, and why consulting rarely feeds VC.
Getting started
How to Rank Consulting Internships Without Prestige Lists
Rank consulting internships by conversion language, length, disclosed pay, and application windows using firm career pages, not prestige folklore.
Firm guides
Bates White Case Interview: What the Sheet Actually Scores
Bates White cases score economic framing, clean math, and but-for logic—not MBB frameworks. Format, a worked example, and a one-day drill plan.
Firm guides
Altman Solon Case Interview: What the Sheet Actually Rewards
How Altman Solon's published rounds work, why TMT driver trees beat canned frameworks, a fiber diligence math walkthrough, and a one-day practice plan.
Firm guides
PwC Internship: Member Firm First, Then Service Line
PwC US Advance vs PwC UK summer internships differ on pay, length, and interviews. Pick the member firm and line before you prep cases.
Firm guides
McKinsey Forward: Skills Program, Not a Hiring Path
What McKinsey.org Forward is in 2026: eligibility, 10-week format, October window, badge value, and why it is not a consulting recruiting channel.