Hi everyone,
I'm currently a junior at one of the lower ivies (think Dart/Corn/Brown) who just went through recruitment and didn't land anything. I believe a large reason why I didn't land anything/didn't get enough interviews (only got like 2 IB internships with MM firms) is because of my low GPA (~3.5 in an easy major). I'm going to delay my grad no matter what to go through recruiting again.
To best position myself for getting an IB SA internship, should I just stay at my current school, where I only have 3.5, or try to transfer to semi-target schools like Northwestern, where I have the opportunity to reset my GPA?
Thanks In advance!
No need to transfer to another school that is less or equal standing than the one you are at. Having 3.5+ and decent school is all you need, now go out and make meaningful connections that can help push your resume through to HR and get you an interview. Also should look at why you didn't get offers from places you interviewed and work on that front too.
I didn't get ANY interviews with BBs/EBs tho (only with some decent MM firms), so I assuming my gpa was a large problem. My peers who got BBs/EB interviews had similar profiles except a much higher gpa (~3.9).
you need to network lol
Mmm I'm highly doubtful it was your GPA.
A 3.5 is fine at any strong school (lower ivies are definitely not gonna close any doors for you in the IB world). I went to a lesser school (T20 private) with 3.5 GPA and interviewed at virtually every BB and a couple EB's (not holy trinity; roths/gugg/ghl type).
Prior internships were really good but not IB/PE. Like someone else said, you probably didn't network enough (you need people truly batting for you).
How is Northwestern a semi? It is definitely a target.
Target for some, semi-target for others, non target for Guggenheim
Why so much MS lmao
Stop posting your "sob" story everywhere. Suck it up and start networking.
Imagine going to a target and crying about your school
Target School OCR IMO doesn't rlly help much if you can't be like the top 1% of kids in a highly competitive, extremely cutthroat university (might be different for HYPSW tho since they are top targets). A lot of my peers at Non targets still made it into IB (without taking out a dollar of loans).
you buggin, I have friends at cornell and dartmouth that landed top groups at BB with less than 3.5 GPAs.
if you can't land IB from an Ivy, sorry but you can't land it from any school.
if you delay graduation you could just have the same problem again doesn't seem worth doing and there is still time to land something it is only january
What type of firms/roles should i apply to? Or should I just focus on cold emailing boutiques at this point?
OP the school isn't the issue
Never said the school was. Just my gpa.
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