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I don't know if things have since changed but HHs routinely commented on my SAT scores and I can tell you our fund, for better or for worse, does look at them. Usually more of a check the box thing - if you get the interviews and crush them (and had a low SAT score), then it won't get held against you. Bad GPA AND bad SAT is pretty hard to recover from though.

 

3.5 GPA and ~1300 across math and reading, how would you look at that? Also, when I took the SAT in high school it was out of 2400 across math, reading and writing. To my knowledge, writing section has been dropped now. I score near perfect on my math, but relatively low on reading and writing due to english not being my first language. 

 

tbh not that favorably but the math score is probably most important and I think not being a native English speaker helps your case there a bit. GPA is definitely on the lower side, especially if you are not a URM - the people we have taken with 3.5s were diversity and/or former athletes at top banks. This is just from the lens of one UMM fund though. 

 
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It's one of those things where if you have good scores then it's a positive, but if not, you just leave it off. I'm not one to be a snobby asshole, but probably leave off anything under 1450 (SAT) or 720 (GMAT). If you get asked, call your interviewer a fucking dip shit for asking you about your high school standardized scores when you were 16. Wouldn't take the GMAT for PE unless you already know you might wanna go to B School and you actually have time.

There's an insane amount of neuroticism on this forum from 1st year analysts, like bro don't ruin your life with more work if you don't have to.

 

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