Freshman GPA - I fucked up.
I just calculated my grades and I end up with a 3.0 (if I'm lucky, possible 2.9) for my freshman year. I'm absolutely stunned and never thought this could happen to me.
My only worthwhile marks are Economics with an A and Accounting at a B+. Everything else is absolutely disastrous and it feels like everything I've wanted and hoped for is going to be overshadowed by the fact I didn't do so well in absolutely BS courses my school mandates first year (Marketing, OB, etc.).
I can't stand the feeling of failure but I just can't push myself to succeed in courses I'm not interested in. Coming from a semi target, I've been in talks with a few alumnus who all tell me to ignore everything but my grades. How do I explain to them that the one piece of advice they've kept regurgitating to me just went out the other ear as I continued downing beers and letting my grades suffer.
I keep hearing from my friends that it's only first year and I shouldn't worry, but then when I see how competitive finance recruiting is at my school (basically 3.7+ to land an interview), it definitely doesn't seem like the profile of anyone I've seen in finance has been able to get there without a super solid GPA.
If anyone has some advice, motivation, anything, it'd really help.
This is what I do every morning when I wake up and start my job search, I tell my self that one day I will be laughing in their faces while a total babe sucks my dick.
Sucks for you that you had to learn this way but now it is time to suck it up start busting your ass. You can overcome a 3.0 and get it up but it will take hard work and dedication on your part, there are no magic words to tell you other than start working hard.
4.0 Sophormore year = 3.5 4.0 Junior year = ~3.7
Problem solved.
Stick it out. It's not that bad bro. Nail a 4.0 your sophomore year. With a 3.5 you should be able to get interviews as long as you have good internships as well. Be the founder of some i-banking club or run for president and win. Need leadership.
Be realistic in your expectations. Not everyone is a straight-A student their whole life. If you're really determined, this is your chance to set things right. Don't expect to get 4.0 for the next 3 years but it's still possible to have really strong grades. With that said, it's just freshman year. Believe it or not, you have a lot of time in front of you. It may mean you will have to take a crappy job(s) for a few years but if you're really hungry, it can work out eventually.
Not sure of your school's policy but at least at mine you can take some classes over (Two I think?). So next year take that marketing class you got a C in, take an easy teacher, make your schedule 18+ hours and it will be above 3.5.
he speaks the truth.
Listen freshman here's a template for what to do. Take EASY summer school classes get 6-9 hrs of A-/A work. That will help your GPA so you can land a PWM or better internship sophomore year. Then junior year get a solid BB SA. Then get a FT offer. Then go HYP grad. Then PE/Megafund/World domination etc....
Sprinkle in leadership from now through graduation because you may need some redeeming resume qualities to overcome what may be a GPA on the low end of the spectrum. Use this slip up as a way to strengthen your resume and like someone above said show your resolve/ability to overcome setbacks .
I'm going to try taking a summer school class, but the only ones left are philosophy so I'm really going to have to bust my ass in that. I also have 4 finance-related exec positions, including on the finance club, and did PWM before my freshman year for a few months at a regional branch. It's just from what I've seen, even the best resumes in terms of ECs get overlooked by anything less than top notch grades.
Same thing happened to me. Brought it back up to a 3.5 by the time I graduated. I used that in my interview... overcoming adversity or some crap like that. Use your connections to land a good internship and you will be fine.
Stop whining and work harder.
PS: How do you do bad in marketing?
You'll be alright man - your GPA is still super sensitive to changes so just don't f**k up anymore and it'll be alright. Also, I think 80% of college students mess up at one point or another ... it happen.
You'll be alright man - your GPA is still super sensitive to changes so just don't f**k up anymore and it'll be alright. Also, I think 80% of college students mess up at one point or another ... it happen.
By the way how did you do bad in marketing? I am guessing 3-ish 50 question multiple choice tests with a few gimmie hw assignments? Going forward keep this nugget of advice I'm about to drop on you. When I messed up and asked for advice my father would say. "whatever you are doing...do it better"
Looks like you fucked up first semester too. Maybe you are just stupid.
What happens if you have a SA @ BB lined up junior year, then you get a 3.2 senior year? Does this affect your offer or potential career?
they don't always get over looked by top notch grades. Good resumes show more than spending all your time at the library.
a true champion, face to face with his darkest hour, will do whatever it takes to rise above. A man fights, and fights, and then fights some more. Because surrender is death, and death is for pussies. - Kenny fucking Powers
its only your first year, i did even worse then that freshman year, but got my grades up, networked into a great couple internships, and ended up just fine. It's easy to raise your gpa after freshmen year, as you have few units completed and many to go. pull it together, figure out how to get good grades, and you'll be fine.
dude you gotta transfer to a semi-target. you'll start fresh. work you're ass off and you'll do fine. consider IU. minimum GPA for getting in is a 2.5... 2.3 if you're in-state.
Can anyone clarify more on the part that great ECs are overlooked by anything less than top notch grades? Thanks.
Sidenote: Didn't know it was a 2 year thread. My bad.
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Generally I'd say you've got a great sense of humor as evidently it is a good thing that you realize this at a relatively early stage. My undergrad GPA is 3.0+, and I didn't realize the importance until much later. Things will change when you REALLY start paying attention to your future. So either keep downing beers and go with the flow, or sit your ass down to seriously think about your life. The rest will sort out fairly easily.
Just take the classes that you enjoy, look for easy professors, overload your courses with easy 1~2 credit courses (so you have 2 ~3 semesters before SA recruitment, the extra credit load would sum up to 2~6 credits) summer courses + extra course loads + 4.00 for two straight semesters => this would get you about something a little bit higher than 3.6 before you SA internship application. It's possible....
Don't play the "BS mandatory courses" card, that's an excuse used by those who didn't work enough to deserve a good GPA. A high GPA demonstrates you'll work hard at something whether you like it or not which is a trait you'll need in IB, when it's 12 o'clock and you still have 2 hours of monotonous work ahead of you it's your work ethic that will get you through. Work hard at every course next year, nail a 4 GPA if you can and drop the bullshit excuses.
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Getting in isn't just about your GPA, it's about the story. Do something interesting as fuck. There's 100k 4.0 GPA target dorks (u mad?) but, potentially only one of you if you stand out.
some schools have a freshman forgiveness policy. I know for my school, you can retake classes from your first 30 credits, it leaves the old grade on the transcript but your GPA is updated with the retaken class. e.g. a D in Accounting will stay there on the transcript, but will not hold weight on your GPA.
Freshman Year GPA? (Originally Posted: 04/12/2018)
Essentially, if you only look at sophomore, junior, and now senior years, my GPA is between a 3.7 and a 3.8. However, my freshman year, due to my own immaturity and family situations, I got really awful grades (below a 3.0).
As a result, my cumulative GPA for my entire time in college is not really all that high. Is there a way I can explain this away or get recruiters to place more weight on my later classes? Or should I just be upfront and admit to them that yes, I was an immature brat freshman year, but that I've learned from that and have worked to get higher grades?
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What about adding a line for Major GPA? The GPA from your major courses are probably higher, right? Another option is adding GPA by year: Year 1: X.X Year 2: 3.7 Year 3: 3.8 Year 4: 3.7....you get the picture. They will instantly see that your last 3 years were stellar.
Poor Freshman GPA with a good reason (Originally Posted: 04/06/2018)
My question is how to frame a not-so-good GPA in freshman year on my resume. My path to college and banking is anything but linear. I joined the Marines out of high school then worked in tech while applying to schools. I ended up at a "second-tier" Ivy (think Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth) and had a difficult time adjusting for several reasons. 1) I'm a first gen college student who barely graduated high school, and 2) I was maintaining a serious long distance relationship with a grad student at a top University out west (think CalTech, Stanford). I pulled a 3.2 in the most difficult major and ended up transferring to a decent, but not well know college near my girlfriend's grad program and did much better after getting calculus and difficult classes out of the way in freshman year.
As it stands, my resume lists:
School 1 : 3.7 School 2 : 3.2
Is this unnecessarily honest and forthcoming? I feel like I'm shooting myself in the foot on my resume. I have an offer in S&T at a BB as a sophomore, but I'm working on leveraging this summer to get a junior internship in IB on the west coast in a TMT, Healthcare, or Sponsors group and applying to Harvard's SVMP. I don't want to close doors in my face unnecessarily.
Is it acceptable to just list my current GPA and drop the last one? If I transferred from a Community College, they wouldn't care about my freshman GPA. As long as my transcript lists that my credits are accepted at my current institution (which they are) it seems overkill to broadcast that I had a less-than-stellar freshman year when my story is very complex. Thanks in advance for any comments.
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