College Fuck Up
I’ll get right to the point, as the title says I’ve basically fucked up college (NYU). I started off my first two years pursuing a double degree in mathematics and physics and due to a litany of personal and work ethic issues I crashed out hard and my cumulative GPA is below a 3.0.
I transferred into the economics program this year and have fixed my problems but it’s a little too late. The damage from my first two years is hitting hard and with the amount of credits I have left to graduate I won’t be able to end with a cumulative GPA of a 3.1-3.2 even if I pull 4.0s every semester for the rest of college.
As for my resume I don’t have much other than running a business since I’ve been in high school, maintaining a tutoring gig, and some irrelevant medical side internships (I have zero personal connections or family connections in finance).
Right now I feel like I only have two options in my life:
(I should clarify that I’ve always wanted to serve in a meaningful capacity regardless of if I got into a job after college or not)
1) Enlist into the army via an 18x contract or 11b Opt 40 contract, use my GI bill after exiting to finance a good MBA program and then entering recruiting for IB
or
2) Find a way to get into IB regardless of how fucked I am in a reasonable time frame (if it’s going to take 6+ years might as well go the military route)
Option 1 is an option that is always open, but I don’t want to completely give up on trying to get into IB out of college.
Before y’all rip into me, trust me I understand the gravity of how bad I’ve fucked up (that being said, any comments shitting on me are justified considering how bad I’ve fucked an otherwise golden opportunity).
I want to desperately move forward but at the moment I just feel lost af and the light at the end of the tunnel is looking pretty dim.
I need any advice y’all can give with breaking into IB, whether it be a no name, unpaid, boutique SA position to what the fuck I should even put for my GPA on my resume (if I even should).
Thank you in advance.
Transfer schools (if possible with low GPA), GPA restarts at new school
hes already like 3 years in tho
GPA does not restart at a new school 🤦♂️
Cumulative gpa is very real and has an impact
why is ib the only option for you? if you have the quantitative skills to do math/physics you sohuld have no trouble getting good gmat/gre which would help alleviate gpa concerns, and going to some MSF or other masters that needs math prereqs. put your MAJOR gpa on your resume, considering you're now econ major and haven't been doing bad the past year it won't look that bad.
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