What companies will my high SAT help me get in?

I have no finance experience and went to a state school (3.8, econ/math). I'm late 20's now with some consulting experience (just average firms). I have a 780 math SAT and 800 GRE quant. I'm looking for firms that won't care I don't have experience and will give me a look based on those scores. Any thoughts? Any interesting jobs outside finance would be fine too.

BTW, no excessive hours jobs.

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IlliniProgrammerSAT scores won't help you- they might get you an interview, but they won't help you in the selection process. This is coming from someone with a perfect SAT score who thought that would help him.

SAT scores largely become irrelevant pretty quickly after college.

Yeah just to help get an interview is all I'm saying.

 

SATs which you probably took 10+ years ago (since you said late 20s) probably have no correlation to what you are like now. The GRE makes more sense to show, but most people don't put their SATs on their resumes after college. I would be really confused if a resume came across which showed SAT scores and the person was 5+ years out of college. People focus more on gpa, experience and what you've done since to get you to the interview.

 
keyboardcatSATs which you probably took 10+ years ago (since you said late 20s) probably have no correlation to what you are like now. The GRE makes more sense to show, but most people don't put their SATs on their resumes after college. I would be really confused if a resume came across which showed SAT scores and the person was 5+ years out of college. People focus more on gpa, experience and what you've done since to get you to the interview.

I understand. I guess as a career-changer I am trying to demonstrate my strengths since they may not come across in work experience. My BA is also only 3 years ago so I come across younger on the resume.

 

those scores are decent, but honestly, won't help much. its a dime a dozen for top schools and jobs.

i used to get comments on my sats, but i felt that it was more my experience that got me interviews.

 
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An entry level finance job with normal hours that you can get into based off of ten year old SAT scores and no experience? The GRE score might be ok on a resume but if I saw an SAT score on somebody in their late 20's it would scream " I have not done anything better than this in my ten years since high school and I need to fill up space on this paper". The fact is there are plenty of smart guys out there looking for jobs right now, many with experience. My advice would be to take the GMAT and look into business school. You will have a MUCH easier time as a career changer going down that well beaten path.

 

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