Does GPA matter?

Hi everyone, i am a 17 year old student currently enrolled in an accounting bachelor, going into my second year in the Netherlands. My current interest in investment banking made me decide i want to study in the US, so i started looking into colleges and universities in the us. my grades from my high school are very bad, since it didn't matter and there is no competition, so i have a low gpa (2.3 or so). my SAT won't be a problem, i always perform good when i'm well prepared and my first exam went really well, so getting a 1500 is doable. my goal is a top 25 uni in finance, since it will most likely be a target uni for Investment Banks. So if my SAT and english tests are really good, how much do they look at your gpa as an international student?

 

my plan is to follow my bachelor in the US and not finish this one. when applying for the bachelors i need to send my school transcript and as you know it's really bad because i never needed higher than a 5.5 (D) to pass the classes and there is no competition at all so i was just lazy throughout the entire 5 years. 16 years is pretty young but i skipped 1 class

 

Not super knowledgeable on this, but a below 2.5 gpa is pretty much an auto ding from t10 schools for American students and I don’t imagine it being better for international as you are somewhat of a liability. t25 might be possible but that’s a really bad gpa bro sorry. If it was like a 3.2 that would be a different story

 

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