Thanks to everyone for all the advice.
Bio major as a consultant?
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I'm late here, but I figured I would put in my 2 cents. I just finished interviewing at a handful of consulting companies, got offers from a few, but am probably going to turn them all down contingent upon my acceptance to medical school. (I could be using those 80 hours a week to study for my medical degree) They were all in the life science practices of the various firms.
A lot of other posters are correct, to even get an interview, you must have something relating to basic econ/business knowledge before you will even be considered. Furthermore, consulting companies tend to recruit from certain schools, since they consider top tier colleges as a "pre-screen" they can apply to all applicants. Submitting a resume through anything beside your universities career center or an inside contact will almost certainly get you no where.
If you can add something business/finance related to your resume, and then practice a few case studies and read a book or two on basic finance/accounting, AND THEN do well in the interview (assuming you buffed up the business side of your resume), you can land an analyst position some where. Keep in mind, consulting interviews are some of the most difficult out there, and the competition for posistions is almost as hard as it is for medical school, perhaps even more so in this economy since all the i-banking wannabe's now consider the consulting paycheck as the reason for their existance.
