A PwC recruiter came to my accounting class and told us that everyone who is eligible should apply. I had an okay GPA – 3.5 so I decided, what the hell, why not. My sis was working at deloitte, her GPA was a 3.9. I thought I had no chance, plus I wasn't really interested because my sister was always coming home at odd hours of the night..
Anyway, I applied on the last day possible and I was accepted for the first round interview. I wasn't involved in any business activities, no honors society or any Beta Alpha Psi crap.
The first question the partner asked me was “How come you're not in BAP?” (apparently, 95% of all B4 recruits are from BAP at my school. There were 12 interns from my school and I was the only one not in BAP). I gave him some BS answer about how I like to interact with all types of people, not just business minded people. I told him about my participation in Street Fighter tournaments and that I helped set them up, coordinated them, set-up brackets, set-up video and put tournament footage on this cool new site called “YouTube.”
Fortunately for me, he was super intrigued. He asked me who I played, and I said Dudley. He had no idea who that was, so I said he was kinda like Balrog. He said he loved Street Fighter and plays Ryu against his son. Really strange.. I got through to the second round, no video game talk this time around though. But a partner did ask me what my “most challenging class” was and as a Joke, I responded with Wine Appreciation. It's not that easy to take a test when you're half drunk on pinot noir. (I only mentioned this because I noticed he had bottles of wine above his desk).
That's my story, I definitely don't recommend it to people nowadays.. maybe they were less picky in 2007..