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Jesus what did I just read.
General comment: talk about why you think your major is interesting, NOT why other majors suck
e.g. you talk about how art history is lame and unpractical, but your interviewer turns out to be an art history major
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are you really on here repping your high school with a ..."think HYP" kinda comparison? Good Lord.
I think you have a serious communication problem amigo (that's Spanish for friend)...Seriously, this isn't twitter, you don't need to save characters by writing cuz or tho. Aside from that, you need to learn how to be more concise. This could have easily been written in a paragraph. Now to the question I took from your rant, use the search function :)
This hahaha
Pretty much my answer:
"Thought I was going to law school so political science and economics made sense at the time. I realized later that taking on $200,000 in debt for a career where there are too many people for the amount of jobs available and you spend your day making sure periods and commas are in the right place was a dumb idea and not what I wanted to do. Still, political science led me to study leadership and improved my writing ability and economics helps me understand the market on a macro level."
I point out that going to law school would been a bad financial decision, showing that I'm mature and think things through. I show that I've done some self reflection on my career path, reinforcing that. Then I spin my two areas of study to skills that would be relevant.
I got a scholarship and it was cheap. $4000 a year vs. $60,000+ a year (my two real options) wasn't a contest really.
Do me a favor: write a concise question that people can respond to. This writing is diarrhea splatter and difficult to follow.
Why X school, and you say because it was cheap? Seriously, if there was a big enough trash bin in the room the interviewer would just throw you in it and have security take you outside.
You went to school X because of the student life, the interesting clubs it has, the vibrant theatre scene, the innovative teaching style. Doesn't really matter. Talk to an Admissions Counselor at your school and tell them to sell you, noting very clearly you don't care in the slightest about creature comforts like dorms with Central Air, a doorman etc. Use their answer if you really can't think of anything.
You did Econ because its frickin awesome. Say you didn't realize how interesting finance was until later, and that you really got interested in the markets when you saw Ben Bernanke turn on the money printers with QE.
To answer your question - it's definitely a lot easier to get into finance if you went from Andover to Princeton and majored in Finance, but it's not impossible to do so even if you're a Basket Weaving major from Timbuktu University.
Okay, that just might be impossible. Point is, though, that you're not completely screwed. There are plenty of posters who've broken in from way out of left field.
Side note 1: For someone who majored in Pol Sci, you sure don't know how to string together a paragraph.
Side note 2: You probably shouldn't brag about a 2030 SAT on WSO, because I'm 90% certain that a score of 2100 would be considered "okay" on WSO.
True but how many kids who majored in finance at St. John's, Hofstra, UDel, etc. even broke 1900 or 1850?
Given the school I did go to, every single person could see through what would be an obvious lie. When you go to a shit state school, especially when your numbers say you could have went elsewhere, you want to show that you were responsible in doing so, not delusional. If I'm talking to a Princeton grad and they're looking at my university with disgust already, what sounds better? "I chose to take on less debt" or "but my shit state school is so cool! there are generic clubs, unexciting lecture, no culture to speak of, and everyone just gets shitfaced for entertainment out of boredom." C'mon now...
Not to mention that every time this situation has come up in real life, the interviewer nods approvingly
This. Same as my answer to "what did you do during the summers between your freshman and sophomore year and sophomore and junior year?" - I worked as a waitress to save money so I could supplement my income the following year should I need to pay rent in a major city to do an internship and also afford to study abroad, which was a goal of mine. Having rich parents is not a prerequisite for working in finance (though it helps, haha)
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