Took me 4 years to raise GPA to 3.6. Applying for first time. Any chance at all?

I'm a senior now and will be graduating in 2010. I never applied to any BBs because my GPA got wrecked sophomore year. I LITERALLY got a 3.8-4.0 every single semester (including countless A+'s) in Columbia's Economics program along with computer science and financial engineering courses.

I finally raised by cumulative from a 1.77 to a 3.6 and it's my senior year. Would I have any chance at summer analyst positions or full time positions at Goldman, MS, Citi, JP Morgan, or ANY top 15 I-Bank?

My only work experience are quantitative and logic based, as in programming but no financial work experience.

Any advice would be appreciated, fellow monkeys.

 

thats actually impressive but like vjunreal said, recruiting is over in NYC.

I know columbia CCE interviews are done for FT positions.

sorry to bear the bad news but you can still look at boutiques, etc.

 

good stuff.

anyway, i would suggest that you consider getting a part time UNPAID internship (NY has plenty of those) in either banking or a hedge fund (depending on what you're more interested in) during this year. Don't pussy out on this cause Columbia has a great Wall Street network.

you can afford to work for free since you're in school. make sure to use and leverage the network/skills you develop for the future.

by the way, make sure you get a full time job even if its not on wall street (i.e. technical consulting, programming, engineering, whatever) and after your first year, start hitting the network hard.

just be patient, if you can get a 1.77 up to a 3.6, i have no doubt that you'll be able to get into banking down the road.

hell even if you go after your mba in 2-3 years time, that experience will help out tremendously.

------------ I'm making it up as I go along.
 

you might want to consider boutiques as well. prof. sally davidson has a friend who's started a firm somewhere in the city and now needs a graduating senior to work with him. you can email her, although the position may have already been taken. btw, from 1.77 to 3.6 is incredible!

 

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