Should son forego 5th year for Mckinsey job?

Take the job. Hobby jog on the side

This is a no brainer. Take the McKinsey gig!

How much was his private education?

Can he decline it and but keep in contact with them and reapply? Would he do a grad program? They will probably be interested still. I understand what others are saying, but he will never get another shot to run D1. It is a big decision.

He can probably defer his offer at McKinsey, even doing another summer ( the summer probably fits perfect anyway with a single entry level gig). McKinsey surprisingly big on work/life balance and work/academic balance. Would shock me if they didn't support this move.

On McKinsey to get the most out of it, best to think with a 10 year horizon. Do you see yourself staying in consulting and making partner, or do you want to jump ship into sr mgt at a client at some point. If it's the latter, try to get assignments in the industries you want to work in. The beauty of going from McKinsey to client, is you are immediately catapulted into the high flyer pool when hired and set on the fast track to sr mgt. It's not necessarily fair, but consultants hired in are assumed to be smart and are paid better than peers. Just don't screw it up, lol.

Those are great times but not great enough to pass up that kind of career opportunity. Ask him to think about where he wants to be in his life in 5 years and which path is likely to get him there.

McKinsey sucks. They repeatedly and blatantly lied about the economic benefits of DEI. And it matters because companies listened to McKinsey's nonsense and enacted it, hurting many.

Pages 5-34.

Your time-frames don't line up. He gets a 5th year due to Covid regardless of a redshirt.

Why did he go though an extensive mutli-level interview process with them if he is u sure about graduating? That makes no sense.

You are being a bit narrow minded. McKinsey has over 35,000 employees in over 100 countries on lots of varying projects. It's an excellent lucrative training ground and launching pad for future executives.

Sure they make mistakes, sure they can be political, but saying they suck on 1 issue, is a bit like saying the US sucks as a country, because of some bad choices we made in Vietnam or Iraq.

With the way things are going at McK right now, I wouldn't be surprised at all if they let him push his start date back a year. He should reach out to them regarding that; best of both worlds.

Working at Mckinsey seems terrible

He is in the process of looking into this. Would be great if he had this option.

I'm almost positive they'd let him defer a year. Large, exclusive companies (and universities) are used to dealing with people who are excellent at more than one thing (indeed, that's part of how you get admission/job offers, they specifically look for people like that). It's very normal to defer admissions for a year to pursue a project or something, and given his athletic ability and his pursuit of excellence there, he has a compelling and legit reason to ask for a deferral. Can he do an MS or something in his extra year?

So it's really if he wants to keep running or not.

You are correct. He has two more years of eligibility but he is pretty sure he doesn't want to take advantage of that 6th year. Especially with this opportunity. Right now he is only considering one more year of running after this season.

Seems relevant:

bloomberg.com

McKinsey Offering Some Staff Nine Months’ Pay to Leave Firm

Matthew Boyle

McKinsey & Co. has made a unique offer to some of its staff: Take nine months’ pay and go away.

Link:www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-0...

Real talk, the few people I've known in the McKinsey sphere have been borderline sociopaths. This goes for pretty much all forms of "professional services consulting." It's a guaranteed good paycheck, sure, but there's less soul-sucking forms of getting a good paycheck too. None of the consultants I know are satisfied with how things get "solved." Family member works for another big firm and he says, "A good consultants job is never done, because then you have to stop billing the client." I don't know about your son, but I enjoy knowing I've actually solved something.

I would either go to work or run 2 years. Splitting it seems illogical. Potentially giving up the job requires a real decision. Your son likely woukd agree if he uses his decision making education. The company can say that they will hire him next year but nobody can predict where they will be with opportunities. AI may make a dent in their business. Or they may have less attrition than expected.

I agree. My company used them on a major project for about 18 months. They were mostly 25 year olds with MBAs who were arrogant and ended up ticking everyone off.