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@SatelliteWithCookie2 hours agoUnited States
Is it worth traveling to another university's public consulting event if my school has no recruiting?
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My university gets almost no consulting recruiting, but a nearby target school sometimes has public panels and employer events. Is it worth traveling to those events, or will recruiters mostly focus on students from the host school?
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