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S23E27: Former BCG Consultant Runs a Live Higher Education Case Interview
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This episode is presented by Bates White, one of the world's top economic consulting firms. If you're an undergraduate rising junior (Class of 2028), Bates White internship applications open in August. Learn more.
Consulting firms are moving towards non-traditional cases. They want to see if you can think, not just if you've memorized a framework.
This one is a BCG-style case built around two universities launching a joint degree from zero.
Ex-BCG coach Yusuf Shaikh runs candidate Wasif through it live – the structure, the math behind a 240-student enrollment target, and the real-time correction when the numbers had no framework behind them.
Wasif had the right answer and still lost the case on structure. Yusuf explains why – and what to do differently.
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