How to spend summer productively?
Ok, so I currently attend a non-ivy, but highly ranked public university in the US. I'm double majoring in math and statistics, but am a little behind with my stats courses because I dabbled around with engineering in my freshman year. However, I'm certain that I want to get into banking, and intend to go into my math and stats courses full-steam ahead in my sophomore year. (next year).
My question for now, however, is what I should be doing to improve my resume and acquire useful skills. I plan on taking the GMAT this summer, and I'm confident I can get a high score (I'm good at standardized tests). However, what besides this would be a useful activity to do?
I was thinking of working at a local restaurant like Panera or something, just to show I'm willing to work hard and that I'm not some entitled SOB, but does this look good at all on a resume? I would also like to pick up some programming languages, and maybe get some real world experience applying them, but i'm not sure where to start.
Any general tips would be greatly appreciated, since I would ideally like to maximize all my time during the summer so I can put myself in a good position applying for internships next year.
Thanks in advance, I hope my first post is informative enough...I can post some stats from high school if you guys need any indication of what type of student I am.
GMAT now? U stupid bro?
Take some summer classes or workout. Get a 2400 on the SAT. Maintain your GPA. Try to get some extracurriculars under your belt. Transfer.
Yeah, to get into my school's MSF (masters in finance) program, they want a gmat score.
Plus the GMAT is pretty easy anyway.
I would advise against taking the GMAT as a freshman. your scores are only good for 5 years, and you are going to be wasting 3 of those while being in college, meaning youd have to retake the GMAT if you dont go to b-school almost immediately after you graduate...
lmao work at Panera, are you planing to become baker or banker? Try to work at a bank or get something close to finance. Try to work in government, they have connections to banks.
Don't take the GMAT
My advice is: work at Panera but also do an internship part-time on the side. Lots of shit to do. From volunteering for your county comptroller to PWM, anything works. Make some booze cash, intern, then get drunk at night. Awesome.
Ok, well the goal is to actually find a legitimate place to intern, but I'm worried that it might be too late in the year to apply for this summer, and my real shot would be to try next summer once I have more skills/experience to advertise on my resume.
bump?
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