Key Questions

We aim to help kickstart promising advanced-degree consulting careers. Thus, we invite you to join our competition if:

1. You're interested in consulting, business, and healthcare/life sciences fields, and;

2. You are/were a current student or postdoctoral associate at an accredited college or university anywhere in the world. See the text below for details.

If you recently graduated, you must have received your diploma or completed your defense no more than two (2) years before the application due date.

If you are a current student, we warmly welcome you to join us - whether you're in an undergraduate, masters, doctoral, or professional program. However, no more than one undergrad or MBA candidate is allowed in a single team.

All teams in the Southeast Cup must:

• Consist of 3 to 5 members. Out of these people, no more than one person may be an undergraduate student, MBA candidate, or recent recipient of such degrees.

• Come from at least one college or university. Multi-school, interdisciplinary, and multi-degree teams are welcomed and encouraged!

• Be represented by one team leader. This person will be responsible for corresponding with competition organizers throughout their run in the Southeast Cup and sharing information with their team. 

• There will be 3 rounds.

• In the General Round, teams will prepare a slide deck and record their presentation. The general round judges will review and score the presentations within a week and the top teams will be invited to the Case Competition Final Day to attend our live event.

• During the Semi-Final Round, teams will present to a new round of judges and answer questions from the Evaluation Panel. Teams will be scored and ranked and the top 4 teams will proceed to the Final round 

• The Final round is live and open to spectators, including all participants and judges from previous rounds.

Having business or case interview experience is good but definitely NOT required! To effectively tackle the cases, you’ll need analytic and problem-solving skills which you have already learned from your past experiences in research or business.

No, these are good to have but definitely NOT required. The case prompt you’ll be working on might not be in the same field even if you have business or healthcare industry experience.

It’ll be a great opportunity as long as you’re interested in business or consulting. Participating in the case competition will give you experience in business analytics, which is an essential skill for various types of jobs in the business sector.

Yes!

• Register for one of our info sessions which will be held on Feb. 28 or March 12 at 6 pm EST. We will have a team-building event right afterward. 

• Let other potential participants know that you’re interested by filling out the team-building spreadsheet.

• We will notify all teams by March 24th 2024, if they have been accepted into the competition.

• Once you receive the email notification that you have been accepted into the competition, no further actions are needed.

• No entry fee payment is needed. No separate final registration is necessary.