How high is your GPA?
How important is GPA in landing a position at a bulge-bracket firm? What is I know all the materials that they ask me and knock down the interview better than anyone else. How high is your GPA just so everyone gets a clear understanding of where they stand.
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"How important is GPA in landing a position at a bulge-bracket firm? "
There have been many discussions on this board about GPA's. Search
"What is I know all the materials that they ask me and knock down the interview better than anyone else."
...what?
"How high is your GPA just so everyone gets a clear understanding of where they stand."
This is just an online forum. Not every internship/job applicant posts here so it will not help. Even if you get a list of GPA's of succesfull applicants (which there is already a thread on), GPA doesn't represent the full package.
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Nice Ahmed, im guessing you know someone in a BB?
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Dude don't post such personal information on a public forum you dope. I now know who you are.
1.2 art-history major. Got offers from every BB to start as an associate :).
JK, GPA is a threshold that is offset by everything else on your resume. It plays literally no part in the actual interview. If it were down to two people, the only thing your GPA might do is affect how the interview perceives your overall persona (i.e. you can probabaly name off a few 3.95+ GPA students and you probably give them the benefit of the doubt that they're smart based solely on their GPA). That said, the other stuff matters more once you land your 1st round.
3.255, Econ Major, Non-target
No IB offers, but I did land a Finance gig at a top BB.
I also started a Pharm Student...had a 2.4 after 1st year...soo yeah.
GPA only really matters if you're applying without any previous ib experience.
4.5 GPA BA(Fin)
In the US GPA system, what GPA would generally be considered top 10%? And what GPA would generally be considered top 50%?
It really depends on the individual university as some have rampant grade inflation/deflation. I would be interested in seeing any statistics if they were available.
I don't know. But the bastards at NYU changed the latin honors system to class-rank based from cumulative GPA based, so now I have to be in the top 15% of the class to be considered for magna cum laude. The threshold used to be a 3.700. Grr.
"We are lawyers! We sue people! Occasionally, we get aggressive and garnish wages, but WE DO NOT ABDUCT!" -Boston Legal-
Interesting...
I graduated in the top 10% (v. good european uni) and yet I don't get any latin honours. But I guess in the US latin honours are pretty common, right? Like, even people with a 3.5 would get some kind of latin honours at many schools, if I'm not mistaken.
Well up until this year, cum laude at NYU used to be a 3.50.
"We are lawyers! We sue people! Occasionally, we get aggressive and garnish wages, but WE DO NOT ABDUCT!" -Boston Legal-
Okay, and roughly what proportion of NYU grads were getting that cum laude at NYU, any idea? 1/3? 1/4? 1/5?
3.6 (3.57 if you want to be precise)
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Yet somehow I get the impression you are doing just fine :)
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