Bad GPA vs the ability to bring in massive revenue for the company

If you are a student with a bad GPA but is also, for conversation sake, the best trader in the world and have returns on your stock portfolio that is better than the best traders on Wall Street. You also won the world stock trading competition against a million other students. Will a hedgefund recruiter look at your bad GPA and toss away your application because they have a GPA threshold of 3.8+ and you have a bad GPA because you didn't care about your required science and art electives back in college? Does the ability to make huge amounts of revenue for the firm get overlooked because you have a bad GPA due to irrelevant college courses unrelated to business and the firm has high GPA requirements?

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how poor is a poor gpa?

When you apply to jobs, make sure you address your trade history in a non-conceded way that could explain your poor gpa- aka not doing well in a classroom. But if you're applying to traditional jobs via website that uses a computer to screen resumes that have less than their gpa requirement, you're going to have to take the non-traditional route and network with people. Because I couldn't give a shit less about someones GPA- you can tell if their smart and know their stuff by talking to them- let alone having a great trade history

 

Your best chance is to highlight those achievements in a portfolio of work and submit along with your resume. Get a digital one and a glossy binded one with neatly formatted PDFs of your competition stock portfolio snapshot including a couple of pages outlining your thought process / thesis around several particular stocks basically your own roadshow for fundrasing. Will help you vs just submitting a resume and getting auto dinged because of GPA.

26 Broadway where's your sense of humor?
 
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"ftorbust" Convincing them that your track record is repeatable / based on a process / etc is probably going to be more difficult than the effort it would've taken to go to class and maintain a high GPA.

THIS

although, if you actually are the greatest trader, then go take a couple thousand dollars that you save from your summer job and trade options and make millions. Not kidding...if you are an amazing trader, then this is totally possible...however, the odds of you being such a great trader are about 1 in 100 million.

just google it...you're welcome
 
"ftorbust" Convincing them that your track record is repeatable / based on a process / etc is probably going to be more difficult than the effort it would've taken to go to class and maintain a high GPA.

everyone ever in the industry interviews on their track record.

26 Broadway where's your sense of humor?
 

True, except for those entering the industry for the first time- they usually look for intelligence over track record (because you're probably not trading millions as a student).

 

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