How much does GPA matter for recruiting
How much does GPA matter for investment banking, and what was your GPA when you got the offer?
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From the network I have talked too, essentially as a non target non diversity hire you need a perfect GPA and even that might not be enough. It’s usually you need three things.
Target/semi target
High/mid GPA
Solid connect at bank that will vouch
Bonus (don’t be a weirdo)
If you look at that as of right now and what I know you have none of these. Say your networking is going well then you have 1 of these. At the end of the day you need to really get your GPA to be perfect, I am actually transferring from a non target to a target, my GPA was a 3.9 and I had decent connects and even then I still had a struggle to get accepted to things in high finance.
Hopefully that makes sense and helps.
This is goofy af
Given you got a 2.7 (C+?) in 1st year calc, I doubt you're going to be strong enough to get exclusively CVP/EVR/JPM/GS as you mentioned wanting in your last post. You go to a non target and your academics are sub-par... suggest you re-evaluate and start looking for opportunities in TO
Your grades don't matter - Network, Interview well and get a job, most USA IB won't even look at your resume when deciding to give you an interview it will be directly due to a referral. Coming from a non-target you don't get the luxury of being socially awkward, unprofessional or unpolished so if you can't satisfy those requirements you could have a 4.3/4.3 and it wouldn't help you.
Have you recruited for any firms and have been successful? If so, do you mind if I contact you, I would love to learn about your journey and the different perspective you have.
Do you actually need to put on 3.9 / 4.3 on your resume? Why not just put 3.92 GPA?
Professionals are busy and aren't going to go dip into your colleges grading systems when you try to network with them. They are either going to kill it because you go to a non-target or think that a 3.92 is fine.
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