JOB OFFER RESCINDED

Did you lie on your resume?

You can safely rule out investment banking with a 2.7 GPA. Boost your GPA, leverage your experience and hit recruiting hard so you can land on your feet by the time you graduate.

sounds like you lied about your GPA for them react so harshly. moreover, if you were going to work in big 4 tax, you were already far away from IB WITH the offer

hit the books hard, hit recruiting hard, make the most of your situation and learn from your mistakes

@"BryceLarkin" @"Discounted Cash Bro" @"Another" No I did not lie on my resume. Cant get it to a 3.0 with it being my last semester, too late. I have had a lot of family issues and deaths so its been hard to stay focused. Life Sucks! I was a transfer student from a community college where I held a 4.0 gpa. So I asked the career services office at my new university and they told me to list that under the community college education part because that was the only thing I had at the time, and as for the university gpa I put not available because when they were doing on campus recruiting it was during the fall semester which was my first semester on campus. I knew from the start that i wanted to work in finance but when such an opportunity like a big4 firm fell in my lap its kind of hard to turn down even if it is in tax. the company name weights more than no company at all. I mean that is my dream to be an IB but what sort of route do i have to take to get there? Are there certain types of financial service industry jobs that i should target? Companies? Do i even have a chance of landing any kind of job with this kind of gpa? This obviously doesn't help my chances of getting into a good b-school for my masters. I'm a fighter and not giving up!!! Just like the movie Pursuit of Happiness "You got a dream... You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want somethin', go get it. Period."

Wallstreet313:

So heres what happened. I had an offer in tax at a big 4 firm after my internship. My GPA at the time of recruitment was under 3.0 and I got in. Now a semester away from graduating and starting off they decided to rescind my FT offer. I currently carry a 2.7 but I'm not giving up. I always wanted to work in Finance anyways. Im applying and networking as much as I can. Investment banking is my goal. What is a good route for me to get into IB? Am i screwed with my gpa? I have 3 internships on my resume so that is going to help me. Any insight would help.

Wallstreet313:

@BryceLarkin @Discounted Cash Bro @Another No I did not lie on my resume. Cant get it to a 3.0 with it being my last semester, too late. I have had a lot of family issues and deaths so its been hard to stay focused. Life Sucks! I was a transfer student from a community college where I held a 4.0 gpa. So I asked the career services office at my new university and they told me to list that under the community college education part because that was the only thing I had at the time, and as for the university gpa I put not available because when they were doing on campus recruiting it was during the fall semester which was my first semester on campus. I knew from the start that i wanted to work in finance but when such an opportunity like a big4 firm fell in my lap its kind of hard to turn down even if it is in tax. the company name weights more than no company at all. I mean that is my dream to be an IB but what sort of route do i have to take to get there? Are there certain types of financial service industry jobs that i should target? Companies? Do i even have a chance of landing any kind of job with this kind of gpa? This obviously doesn't help my chances of getting into a good b-school for my masters. I'm a fighter and not giving up!!! Just like the movie Pursuit of Happiness "You got a dream... You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want somethin', go get it. Period."

Damn it, OP, you are a terrible liar. There is an obvious incongruency in your story that I'm going let someone else call you out on. I'm not going kick you when you're down so you need to go reflect on your situation and then come back and tell us what really happened. Oh, and while you're thinking, you should take a lap or two as well.

this post made me sad

So your GPA at the time of recruitment was sub 3 but you said N/A?

@"theATL" No i did not have a GPA at the time of recruitment at my new university. My community college gpa was listed under the community college which i had a 4.0. under the university part it was N/A

there are people with some shitty GPAs that break into wall street, no biggie