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Actaully, the undergrad liberal arts majors don't really even count, business analyst is not a career path at McKinsey, they are expected to go back to grad school after one or two years.

But picking the kids from the best grad school is pretty much SOP, yeah, most are MBAs from top five schools, but not all. They pick them from Law School, Med School, or all sorts of grad programs at various elite schools if they liked the kid. I know someone who never finished his MS in EE from Caltech (never worked, except part time gig at a dot com) but went to a McKinsey interview and scored a first year associate job with McKinsey.

As for Chelsea Clinton being Chelsea CLinton, *shrug*, that's part of the game -

(1) the privilaged class, whatever their political affiliation, will always have an insider's privilage. As much as I admire GW Bush as my Governor and President, if he wasn't who he was and his family who they are, he probably won't be where he is today. Connections, who you know and who you are helps, so what if Chelsea Clinton benefits from that too. Speaking of McKinsey, one of my friend who went to McKinsey with middling grades (from Princeton, but middling grades nonetheless, and yeah, no graduate degree either, just an AB) was probably in small part due to her father was the President of one of the world's largest oil company at the time - heck she even joked that during her interview the interviewers just wanted to talk about her father (apparently they knew each other). Thus leading to

(2) Part of getting on the partner track is how good a sales job you can do, how good are you at bringing in clients and being a rainmaker, having connections definitely help in those areas, and having connections therefore will help in getting hired in the first place.

I don't begrudge her using those advantages, even if I don't like her as a person or her politics. She is not practicing anything that's not practiced by others in her social class. And McKinsey is not fawning over her not unlike they fawn over other potential associates with a golden rolodex. Her connections got her into the best universities, and her connections got her a plumb job, so what? The same has always happened and will continue to happen to well to do and well connected young men and women of all political strips. So why pick on her in particular?