NYU Undergrad's SA Cover Letter Goes Viral

"How a Tenacious Summer Analyst Applicant Got Laughed at by Goldman, Morgan, and Everyone Else on Wall Street"

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/tenacious-summer-an…

 
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Anacott_CEO:
Wasn't this posted before?

Didn't someone already post that this was posted before??

Hey Jerry, didn't we already have this conversation?

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Get busy living
 

Definitely feel bad for the guy. Dumb move, but not worthy of this kind of punishment. Nice enough of them to black out his name, I guess?

And this ("That semester I achieved a 3.93, and in the same time I managed to bench double my bodyweight and do 35 pull-ups") is actually pretty impressive if it's true.

"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is." - Oscar Wilde "Seriously, psychology is for those with two x chromosomes." - RagnarDanneskjold
 

Okay it is by no means the best cover letter I've ever seen, but honestly I think people are over reacting. Remove the body weights and the bragging about placing out of classes, and its a normal stupid cover letter. So it went from being a stupid cover letter to being slightly more than stupid. Whoever passed this around must be a huge asshole

 

Yahoo Finance. The email chain sent it around unedited. Everyone knows his name and has his full resume (with more than a couple grammar/formatting errors).

At least the kid has a sense of humor. Saw this on the Gawker article: When reached by phone yesterday, Mark was well aware of the furor surrounding his letter, and that he'd overplayed his hand. When asked if he'd gotten a job at J.P. Morgan, he laughed. "No, not at all. Didn't you see my letter?"

http://gawker.com/5883684/the-awful-cover-letter-all-of-wall-street-is-…

 

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