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&lt;p&gt;Want to work for a top consulting firm? And by, &quot;top&quot;, I mean, one of the top 5 firms on &lt;a href=&quot;/company-rankings/consulting/vault-consulting-50/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Vault&#39;s annual consulting list&lt;/a&gt;—the cr&#232;me de la cr&#232;me of the industry, the firms where you spend a few years before going on to work for, potentially wind up running, some of the biggest names in business?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What&#39;s that? You do?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well, then, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/education/edlife/mba-programs-that-get-you-where-you-want-to-go.html?_r=0&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;NY Times&lt;/a&gt; has the secret formula you&#39;re looking for: &quot;Go to Kellogg School of Management.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;OK, so there are a couple of catches. First, you&#39;ll need to get the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/career_employer/students_and_clubs/current_class_profile.aspx#Ctab_GMAT_Distribution&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;700+ GMAT score&lt;/a&gt; and get comfortable with the thought that you&#39;ll have to pony up &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/programs/full-time-mba/tuition-financial-aid.aspx&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;around $120,000&lt;/a&gt; to attend. (Although, if you want to get &#160;technical about it, you should probably also factor in the annual salary that you&#39;ll be foregoing while studying).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But that&#39;s the cost of doing business—if you want access to the top firms, you have to prove you&#39;ve got the chops, and be willing to pay to play.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So let&#39;s get down to business: what makes Kellogg the consulting industry&#39;s top choice—so much so that 35% percent of its graduates last year went to &quot;elite consulting firms&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;According to Kellogg&#39;s associate dean of M.B.A. programs, Elizabeth Ziegler—as paraphrased in the &lt;em&gt;Times&lt;/em&gt;—&quot;consulting firms look for two specific things in M.B.A. graduates: a natural gift for building trust-based relationships and strong problem-solving skills. The school&#39;s pedagogy is based on a team-based model, which develops the first. And its curriculum stresses the second, with a particular focus on helping students answer a question McKinsey consultants grapple with every day on behalf of clients: Do you know what problem you&#39;re actually solving?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So there you have it: the path to a top consulting firm begins in Illinois. What are you waiting for?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/company-rankings/consulting/vault-consulting-50/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The Vault Consulting 50&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/school_profiles/unit/northwestern-university-kellogg-school-of-management&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Vault Profile: The Kellogg School of Management&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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