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11-28-2007, 02:42 PM
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Re: What are the top schools for undergrad recruiting?
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Also, your school doesn't mean much if your GPA is below 3.3 It's usually the cut off to weed out the massive amounts of resumes received every year. [/ QUOTE ] Fortunately (for me) this isn't true. it sure doesn't help though and does depend on what you want to do. 
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11-28-2007, 02:54 PM
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Re: What are the top schools for undergrad recruiting?
The OP wrote that he was just getting opinions on an argument, so the thread has wandered a bit, but i don't think anyone in school should have the impression that investment banks don't care about grades, especially low grades. They do. School matters, too. Maybe more than it should, but it matters a lot.
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11-28-2007, 03:52 PM
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Re: What are the top schools for undergrad recruiting?
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I got into investment banking (R&A for M&A) with a 2.05 from case western reserve u. [/ QUOTE ] Care to explain how??
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11-28-2007, 03:46 PM
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Re: What are the top schools for undergrad recruiting?
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i don't think anyone in school should have the impression that investment banks don't care about grades [/ QUOTE ] of course. investment banks care a lot about grades, as do all employers, and from experience (both my own and friends') they along with consulting jobs care more about grades than do hedge fund, private equity, and trading shops. All I was saying is that I know for a fact that you can have a GPA below 3.3 at Wharton and still get plenty of interviews and offers for many top finance jobs, although obviously it may be near impossible to get an M+A job for Goldman or a consulting position with McKinsey without connections, some serendipitous event, or some other extraordinary experience or siutation.
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11-29-2007, 03:15 PM
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Re: What are the top schools for undergrad recruiting?
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[ QUOTE ] Also, your school doesn't mean much if your GPA is below 3.3 It's usually the cut off to weed out the massive amounts of resumes received every year. [/ QUOTE ] Fortunately (for me) this isn't true. it sure doesn't help though and does depend on what you want to do. [/ QUOTE ] it's useful to consider who spearheads the hiring at the different shops. i-banks its mostly people who got there through cookie cutter college programs with high gpa's, hedge funds are probably the opposite in terms of founders. traders are never going to have high gpa's b.c. none of that is taught in college, and they realize it. and its not like they get thousands of resumes from undergrads that they can only meet for interview with the top few %.
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11-30-2007, 03:03 PM
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Re: What are the top schools for undergrad recruiting?
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Also, your school doesn't mean much if your GPA is below 3.3 It's usually the cut off to weed out the massive amounts of resumes received every year. [/ QUOTE ] Fortunately (for me) this isn't true. it sure doesn't help though and does depend on what you want to do. [/ QUOTE ] traders are never going to have high gpa's b.c. none of that is taught in college, and they realize it. and its not like they get thousands of resumes from undergrads that they can only meet for interview with the top few %. [/ QUOTE ] so traders don't have to have high gpa's? Im currently 2nd year, in philly looking to be a trader in nyc upon graduation. Should i try getting into the trading side of a bulge bracket firm, or try getting into a smaller but a firm more focused on trading? so if they dont need high gpas, what are they looking for, other than very high quantitative skills.
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11-30-2007, 05:42 PM
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Re: What are the top schools for undergrad recruiting?
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so traders don't have to have high gpa's? Im currently 2nd year, in philly looking to be a trader in nyc upon graduation. Should i try getting into the trading side of a bulge bracket firm, or try getting into a smaller but a firm more focused on trading? so if they dont need high gpas, what are they looking for, other than very high quantitative skills. [/ QUOTE ] the most important thing you can do to increase your chances of getting a job two years from now is get good grades. what school do you go to?
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#9
11-29-2007, 01:48 PM
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Re: What are the top schools for undergrad recruiting?
Ivy league
Brown,Columbia,Cornell,Dartmouth,Harvard,Prinston, Penn,Yale I had a friend who went to Brown and said that it was a good school if you wanted to get recruited to the FBI or CIA... [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
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11-30-2007, 10:51 PM
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Re: What are the top schools for undergrad recruiting?
I met a college grad from Princeton at the poker table in Atlantic City last year. He was going to Georgetown for his law degree.
He told me spending the extra money to go an ivy league school is a waste of money. He claimed he breezed through the 4 years with an A avg., but then he got in there on a scholarship, so he was one of those who retains well.
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