MF PE GPA Cutoff
What's the GPA expectations for the prestige heavy MF PE funds (KKR/BX/APO/SL etc)?
Is there a difference between a 3.8 vs 3.9 vs 4.0?
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Wtf is a “prestige heavy” MF 😂😂 they’re all prestigious and hard to get into
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I looked up "silver lake associate" on LinkedIn and literally the second person that showed up graduated from NYU. He's a private equity associate there. Do you know how to read a website? I decided to look on the website as well and see analysts and associates from UC Berkeley, Baruch College, Carleton College, University at Western Ontario, Stockholm School of Economics, etc etc. From scrolling alphabetically through the letter “C”, literally less than half of their analysts/associates graduated from “target” schools.
Last I checked Berkeley and NYU were targets my man…
Cap 🧢, literally the opposite
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
Keep grades high. I've definitely regretted partying too much senior year.
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
Blackstone recruits from all the ivy (strong emphasis on HYP & Cornell for the RE team). Decent presence from Georgetown, Duke, and UMich too
Blackstone recruits from MIT as well
This is highly inaccurate. I've seen a ton of Berkeley analysts at silver lake. Also, tons of random other schools at those other funds, like all the ivies, USC, georgetown, UVA etc
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.
what would you consider a "high GPA" for MFs?
Same as a high GPA for banking. 3.8+ usually
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.
did you go to a target? also how did you approach your headhunter interview when specifying what you were looking for?
I did, and my banking group tends to place well. I was quite focused in articulating what I was looking for. Large-cap buyout, X geography, and Y industry. Had good story for why.
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