Yes any company, especially a big 4, is going to look at your GPA prior to an interview and won't give an interview to a C student. I said exactly the same thing prior to your post.

The post you quoted, and wrote "WRONG!" below said once you're in the interview no one cares about your GPA. That statement is still true. What did I write? "GPA is an early weed-out." They use it to weed out people ... early... THEN they give interviews. The GPA is no longer a factor.

Don't get all condescending with people when you're just splitting hairs.

 

I'm pretty sure they just sit around mensruating and discussing cramps.

 

I wrote a whole long post on it yesterday, and the server ate it.

Gist of it was, I went to a fairly prestigious college for undergrad, Villanova, and studying accounting. It was a well-known school in Philly/New England area, but then I moved out here to IL, and my wife's U of I finance degree is at least as valuable and cost about 1/3 as much.

The big advantage had I stayed in the Philly/NYC area would have been the networking and alumni base from Nova, however, and it would have meant a lot of feet in a lot of doors. Out here in Chicago, that isn't the case.

Now I'm at NIU for my MBA, and I am basically getting it just so I'm not the only guy without it. If you aren't going to a top-10 MBA school it's not worth spending the money on a fancy private school degree, you're just trying to put the check in the box. Eventually, your resume is going to end up in a huge pile, and someone will be looking for a quick way to narrow the pile out; pulling all the resumes with no BA/BS/MA/MS/MBA on them and tossing them will be an easy way to do that. Right or wrong, it happens.


Finally, getting a degree for just any old thing, or because you liked your jr. high drama coach or sophomore French teacher and picked your major based on that is retarded. You're going to end up unemployed. Go to college with an eye on converting your degree into a job. You CAN be successful without doing that, but it's much harder.

 

I'm going for my B.S. in Finance (Quantitative Finance--more heavily focused on math courses) and I think this statement is because you failed at networking.

Business is ALL about networking and getting to know those around you, and those who would hire you. If you think the degree will get you a job, you are pretty ignorant to the type of world we live in right now. I would think a finance major would know that it's not what you know, but who you know

 

 

that's funny. There are a couple of heart surgeons I know who are absolute nerds but got Mozart hands for heart surgery.

Then there's some people who work in the hospital who are "street smart"

I think I'd rather have the book smart person crack open my chest.

as many have mentioned here. It depends on the career.

 

I'm pretty sure there was a joke along these lines: "Saying you're street smart is just nicer way of saying you're stupid."

 

I just saw that a few days ago!! Can't remember from where though

 

me either!!

 

This very forum.