I would talk to the dept. chair. Everyone at a school should be on the same team, meaning that they should help there students out. The point of college is to get good career placement. That's why people go to good schools, to get good jobs. Let's be honest every school teaches the same things, just varying difficulty, and that diff. in difficulty wont even matter b/c you don't use half of the things you learn once you leave college.

 
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The point of college is to get good career placement. That's why people go to good schools, to get good jobs.

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Then tell me why people do? If it didn't matter what school people went to, then my guess would be people would go to schools where they'd kill every test and go out every night. Sadly, at most target schools you have to work pretty hard to be competitive.

 

But for a summer analyst position, probably the right move. If it were for FT I might just say screw it and take the D if you have no plans to go back to grad school or anything.

My friend got into Harvard Law with multiple D's and C's, but he was a minority so not really comparable. :)

I got a C in one class in my 2nd semester of senior year right before starting this job. Luckily it barely even affected my GPA.

But yeah your school sounds backwards... I would raise hell with the administration. To get something you want you have to ask for it.

 

To bankerchic: Banks have many superdays; why not ask the bank to reschedule?

To dosk: claiming that one got into Harvard Law w/ multiple D's and C's is hard to believe, and therefore obviously misleading. To say that he did it because he is a minority is offensive and ignorant - even minorities with those grades will not get into HLS.

If what you say is true, he obviously had something else going for him (180 LSATs?).

 
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He did not have 180 LSAT or even close. Good but not stellar scores. What he had going for him was a HIGHLY unusual/unique background that they had never come across before. Academically his GPA was decent but well below the range of normal admits.

Obviously I can't go into details of this background here, but even he said multiple times to everyone that this was critical.

Lesson is that despite what everyone says about law schools only caring about GPA/LSAT, other factors actually can come into a play in a big way.

Again my intent was not to offend, just show my point above.

 

do you have any family members or family friends that are doctors. If not just ask around to get one to write up a fake note saying you were really sick that day and coudlnt do the exam.

BTW how did you get a BB superday so early?

 

What a dumbfuck professor. I would report him to the dept. chair. No school wants its professors to be roadblocks in their students post-grad success...

You should post his name here so he google searches can shame him, lol.

 

hmm...i understand your position..i think that was a terrible move by the professor...honestly in my opinion...if i knew i stood a good chance of getting the job after superday...I would have petitioned for an incomplete grade and gone for the interview instead...just my opinion...

 

Exactly, it is all about opportunity and choice. However, I think your professor should be extremely mindful of the fact that you have this interview going on. I had to suck it up and take a 0 on a quiz when I was going through full time recruiting. Of course, that day turned into an offer which turned into my getting home from work right now at 4am (hmm, maybe you shouldn't have canceled)??? Honestly though, this is definitely not the sort of situation you should handle passively. Talk to other professors, department heads, etc., someone will go to bat for you.

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Definitely talk to everybody that you can and get as many people on your side as possible. You definitely have a valid point and dates to take finals are always expendable. If not, try to work something out with the bank you have a Superday at. If they won't do anything about it, you probably don't want to work there anyway.

On a related note, I'm amazed at how some people would have handled the situation and at how high on a pedstal some people place these banking jobs. College is not merely just to get a good job- its to mature, advance, and learn. It should still be the number one priority while you are there. Its stupid to work hard for 3 years and then knowingly take a D just to get a shot at a banking job- that's ridiculous, in my opinion. You've got a good, rational head on your shoulders, bankerchic.

 

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