Do recruiters care too much about the difficulty of your coursework when applying to IB SA roles? For example, would taking a class like Math 55 at Harvard give your resume a sizable boost?
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Unless you are someone like Claude Shannon (who wrote the most influential master's thesis ever), John Phillips (whose undergraduate thesis on a useful nuclear bomb design), or Marie Curie (the work that made up her dissertation won Marie her first Nobel Prize and was the groundwork for her second Nobel), what your undergraduate work is doesn't really matter. All they are doing is checking a box. No one cares if you took Math 55 at Harvard or even if you never got a single point off in the class.
lol no. nobody cares. you think Becky in campus hiring even knows what that is?
When it comes to the education section of an undergrad resume:
People who take Math 55 do not go into investment banking lol
This isn’t always true. People who kill it in math 55 don’t go into IB but there is an equivalent class at my school and two of the people are going into IB, or at least recruiting for it.
Factually untrue lol. Why would anyone in 55 go into IBD when they can go to quant and make more money and do more interesting things… I don’t know a single kid in 55 who wants to work in IBD
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