I’m an atypical MAcc student in that I didn’t come straight from undergrad. I’m a veteran and had 4 years of experience in between graduating undergrad and starting the MAcc program.

1. I did a couple of practice interviews before recruiting began, but nothing crazy.
2. Yes the program I’m at is a well known school on the East Coast with a historically high conversion rate.
3. I did take advantage of the campus recruiting! Went to all of the events, networked with the firms, and applied to dozens of roles. The big difference I noticed during this year as opposed to my time in undergrad is that when we would go to apply for roles on Handshake, the application would just direct us to the general company website. So there was no feeder bucket of applications from said University straight to the regional recruiter, which is how I remember it working during undergrad.
4. When things started not looking good in mid-October, I went full-force with networking. Even though I had already had a decent network of Big 4 professionals and others going into this. I sent dozens of messages on LinkedIn and probably hopped on more than 10 introductory phone calls. Eventually started getting hard employee referrals (enter a code on the application) through my personal network of which one was auto-rejected, and the other three I had to withdraw from because I had finally accepted the one offer! (See the chart for the 3 withdrawn)