for anyone else who ever interviewed someone...
Am I the only one who could care less about someone's Major GPA? To me, if someone puts on their resume that their GPA is a 3.0, the only thing worse they can do is put down next to it that their major GPA is a 3.7. Why not just put down that you only took (or showed up) 1-2 courses a semester and still didn't get straight A's...
Who else trashes any resume that doesn't even bother with the cum. GPA? (I even had one where someone only listed their 3.8 MINOR gpa)
you might very well be the only one. But all joking aside, major GPA is relevant in the sense that I don't really care all that much what you got in your Psych 100 class your first semester of college, which might have brought your GPA down. I am, on the other hand interested in how you're grown, over those 4 years, as you start taking more classes relevant to your career choice. That's what, in my opinion, makes a 3.9 major GPA relevant. Still, 3.8 minor GPA is useless.
I have a ~3.6 GPA at an ivy (and its well above the average for my major). But honestly, if I ever get to the point of interviewing college kids, I could care less about their GPA in general (for non-quant positions) as long as:
(1) they are interested in finance/the position (2) they are smarter than average (just the US average!) (3) they show initiative/hard work in something that is important or interests them (e.g. sport, EC, past internship, personal reading/interest in finance or related field, publication, anything at all- even some wacky stuff)
generally I have found that women are more adamant in having high GPAs even in ridiculous english/social/writing gen. req. courses. I would rather take the footballer or the kid who has a financial econ publication in an undergrad journal.
You sure about that? You come across a real whippersnapper, a guy who was (gasp) social chair of his fraternity for 2 years, tells you he reads WSJ everyday and got a 1410 on his SAT. He starts, and it turns out that he sucks donkey dick. What are you going to tell your MD as to why you decided to hire him?
I understand major GPA can show someone's improvement, but I'm also interested in someone who could hit the ground running. If it took someone 2 years of school before they decided to apply themselves and boost their GPA, then it just doesn't cut it right now, when there are so many candidates who have been more consistent-
you just described 90% of the people who applied-- Have fun interviewing them all.
but seriously, in my life, I've met no more than 1 football player who I think could have done the job. 95% of them are retarded. (to the other 5%, I don't mean to offend you... but I'm sure you know what I'm talking about). We can always blame the game.. http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2009/01/are-pro-football-players…
and if it's a female who has the high GPA, the interest in finance, and the stories to convince me that she'd be a good teamplayer/can do the job, then yeah, I'd happily take her
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