MF PE GPA Cutoff

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Wtf is a “prestige heavy” MF 😂😂 they’re all prestigious and hard to get into

I know a kid from my school who got a kkr offer with a 3.5 someone from another school I know for an offer with 3.6 it’s all luck man. Albeit they did do soph summer @bb. So if you have soph summer at bb you can have lower gpa

SilverLake pretty much exclusively recruits for undergrad from Harvard and Penn

Blackstone recruits from Harvard, Penn, and Yale -- in like with KKR for undergrad for analyst programs

Apollo and the others for Associates will incorporate a variety of factors: bank, bank group, GPA, school, interview skills etc.

- You need the first 4 to get in the door with each factored in and stronger in one category can alleviate worse metrics in the other. Ultimately, you need to secure the offer once you get an interview regardless of where you went to school

Look, if you get the interview for the MF and crush it, you'll get hired if you're the person they like for the seat. Where it gets tricky is when you with let's say a low GPA crushes it the same amount as the hypothetically equally performing candidate with a higher GPA. Most likely the fund will hire based on who they personally liked more but if it comes down to the wire, the higher GPA candidate is a safer bet and in all likelihood will get the job over the other as they're a safer bet. It's not fair imo given who you were in college is often very different to how you performed in your professional life but unfortunately these decisions can often be data-driven when there are few separating factors in an interview process.

I work at a MF and got 2 MF offers the same day of on-cycle with a 3.5 GPA. Banking group, headhunter rapport, and interview performance are, in my experience, more important than GPA when coming from banking.