McKinsey later agreed to conduct on-campus interviews through OCS during the spring term, Wright-Swadel said.
But near the February due date for spring recruiting applications, Swadel noticed a McKinsey advertisement in The Crimson announcing a different deadline than that for OCS applications--indicating that the firm was not recruiting through OCS.
When Wright-Swadel told McKinsey of what he thought was an error, he was again surprised.
"At that point they notified us they had changed they mind and were not coming on-campus," Wright-Swadel said.
The firm's decision to go off-campus in the spring left OCS with empty rooms and no time to find companies to fill them.
"Organizations that would have loved to interview [on-campus] could not," Swadel said. "We felt it was inappropriate behavior."
"It was purely a business decision," Wright-Swadel said. "We trust that they will return and be a good citizen as in the past."
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