想进I-Bank,想通过MBA创造平台,请教路线

lyuki

背景: 大四Senior

Saint Louis University, Cook school

金融major+数学minor

1年国内

半年西班牙交流

GPA很低3.2

GMAT没考

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现在想问下5月毕业后该怎么做?赶上去年金融危机,加上中部非名校, Junior的intern的interview2个没过. 只有国内的一个commercial bank的实习经验.

去年10月准备找工作却被学校的CFA老师和FINANCE DEAN说"focus on you GPA"

今年投简历被拒2封 找不到有人招analyst的工作. 有个friend年底去morgan stanley,一个friend已经在lazard了. 比较迷茫.

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想通过工作经验来balance掉我的低GPA,以下学校是否我是肯定进不去了?或者在接下来的3-5年里我应该做些什么准备?谢谢

Wharton (University of Pennsylvania), Columbia, Harvard, Chicago, MIT Sloan, Stanford, and to a lesser extent Michigan, Cornell, Kellogg, NYU Stern, Darden and UC Berkeley.

Cova

建议一个国外网站：http://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/

MBA不是进入投行的捷径，尤其是你想从analyst做起。可能在热门金融学校（如Stern/CMU/UMich)读一个master in finance还有机会拿到analyst level的面试。如果你只想进IB(不管大小不管pay), 努力networking一下应该还是可以的。如果你想进bulge bracket, 非Ivy之外的学校很难。

mopton

除了你对IB的热情，你觉得自己胜于其他college grad的优势在哪呢？毕竟SLU的商学院也不是太有名。

有没有考虑上个名校的MSF来做一个过渡？你选的上MBA的学校还是很难上的，如果没有solid work experience。Just my 2 cents。

cannedpineapple

At both the schools I've been in (UChicago, Wharton), the GPA has been a crucial element for iBanking recruitment. For instance, at Chicago we only need a GPA of 3.2 to get into the Dean's list. But you generally need a GPA of at least 3.5, or around 3.7 to be safe, to even get an interview. This applies to Bulge Bracket firms. Your deans have been in the industry for a long time- it is not without reason that they tell you to focus on your GPA.

Your undergraduate GPA is not going to be 'improved' by a Master's degree. At Wharton, we ask only for your undergrad GPA. Masters programmes are known as less academically rigorous, and so we don't really consider that as substantial academic achievement.

If you had fantastic extra-curriculars that might be of some help to explain what you were spending your time doing; but more generally, I think work experience is important in your case. Don't worry about going to a brand-name firm; it might be better for you to go to a smaller firm that really wants you, and then become an outstanding success there.

There are many paths to success. You may eventually find that you may not even need an MBA.

Good luck!

withmoon

说实话，觉得大部分人都对ib挺有热情的。。。

erte

很不好意思，可是我觉得你的资料中没有任何一项达到你list的那些名校的要求。我觉得你还是进IBANK，然后靠那个经验申请名校MBA好了。如果你想毕业直接申请学校，我觉得你申请100后的比较现实，50-100的可以试一试。（MBA基本没希望，因为你别的条件也不强，加上没有工作经验）
或者你可以直接工作，不管在哪里工作，只要你做的好，有很大的进步，让人觉得你有潜力，做个3-5年，可能还有希望申请50前的。如果要进你刚刚列的学校，那你的公司必须要很好才可以。再加上好的GMAT，和ESSAY

不好意思，我实话实说，希望LZ轻拍 （LZ也可以看看CD上别人的背景，就可以更加准确的定位了， 很多人可能看上去GMAT不高，GPA不好，然后很轻描淡写的说有多少年的工作经验。但是这些人的工作经验一定是很impressive的，他们一定有很强的地方，并且弱项只有一个到两个。）