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Members cite Hilltop as their favorite and most formative experience at Georgetown. Along with the unparalleled experience of working with some of the nation's leading nonprofits, members have access to exclusive training sessions, networking opportunities with prestigious firms, and social bonding events with the Hilltop family.
Membership Types
You can join Hilltop either as a general or applied member. Below is a brief description of the applications and membership types.
General Membership
General members gain access to a wide variety of MSB-wide recruitment and training sessions.
This membership is open to all Georgetown students, and does not require an interview, all you have to do is fill out the intake form below!
If you are a freshman at Georgetown in your fall semester, you must apply as a General Member. To be eligible to interview as an Applied Member in the Spring, you must be a General Member in the Fall.
Applied Membership
Applied members gain access to all General Member programs, and are staffed on one of our 7 project teams each semester to work hands on with a client.
Applied member applications include a written application, followed by 2 rounds of interviews (behavioral for Round 1 and behavioral/case for Round 2).
If you are a freshman at Georgetown in your fall semester, you cannot apply to be an Applied Member until your Spring semester.
Team Structure
Each of our seven project teams each semester is staffed with 3-4 consultants who are overseen by a Senior Consultant and Project Manager.
To provide additional guidance and support throughout the process, each team is also provided with a member of the Board as their Board Mentor.
Project teams meet weekly and conduct research outside of meetings to deliver our clients the most thorough and relevant work we can provide.
Three-Phase Approach
Each semester project teams follow the Three-Phase Approach in which we present our work to both the client and internally to the club three times.
Each phase is about three weeks long with Phase 1 usually being initial research, Phase 2 being a checkpoint, and Phase 3 being where we present our final deliverables and recommendations.
This approach allows our students maximum opportunity to gain presentation skills while also keeping the club and client in the loop on the work each project is doing.
FAQs
Most certainly not! Truthfully, we expect candidates not to have any prior consulting experience and many of Hilltop’s members didn’t even know what consulting was when applying.
Not at all. About 30% of Hilltop’s members are in the MSB and Hilltop has representation from all four undergraduate schools.
Yes and we highly encourage you to do so. Several members of our organization were not accepted the first or even second time they applied to Hilltop.
Definitely! Whether you’re interested in working with nonprofits or simply want to improve your research and problem solving skills, Hilltop can provide you with a wealth of experience. Plenty of Hilltop members pursue careers outside of consulting including investment banking, tech, nonprofit work, government, and a variety of other fields.