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bpolley00
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Hey everyone,
Just hoping to get some advice as my profile is ridiculous. I am not really planning on applying until I get more work experience so please keep that in mind.
I have a double major in Economics and Finance from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, with a 2.8ish GPA. However, the low GPA was on purpose; which, you may think is quite odd but I can gladly elaborate and prove it as my grades would be 100% on one test and a 40 on the next. It was very immature of me at the time, but what can you do. Basically, I didn't agree with a lot of modern finance, which I am not going to discuss here. HOWEVER, I helped manage a portfolio for the University and did very well. I also won my stock market game by purchasing AIG before the government bailed out the company at $2 a share and an ETF that tracked the S&P500 with the entire portfolio. No insider information, just me sitting in the library thinking I am quite clever. In my opinion, beating the S&P500 as an undergraduate was a great way to distinguish myself from other candidates from all over the world. I mean that is the goal, so who cares about gpa right?
. Anyways, I broke my shoulder right before I graduated so I hung out in Lincoln being a teller, my college job. I ended up working at an insurance company for 9 months as an Agency Operations Specialist and was let go over things I could not control. I went unemployed for around 5 months after applying to nearly 600 jobs. I finally took some temp work at a Financial company and that is what I am doing now. I am hoping that my recent GMAT score will help me get my foot in the door in order to get some real work experience doing what I love to do, which is portfolio management/ value investing. With all that being said, I am only 25 so I kind of want to postpone going to grad school for awhile as I do not think my work experience is up to par. I may also retake the GMAT at some point down the road as I felt that if I took it again I would score somewhere closer to a 680 than 650. I also want to study under a guy named Bruce Greenwald, who teaches value investing at Columbia, so a higher gmat score would probably be necessary. That obviously won't be the only place I apply too.
If you could provide some candid advice that would be great.
-BP
Just hoping to get some advice as my profile is ridiculous. I am not really planning on applying until I get more work experience so please keep that in mind.
I have a double major in Economics and Finance from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, with a 2.8ish GPA. However, the low GPA was on purpose; which, you may think is quite odd but I can gladly elaborate and prove it as my grades would be 100% on one test and a 40 on the next. It was very immature of me at the time, but what can you do. Basically, I didn't agree with a lot of modern finance, which I am not going to discuss here. HOWEVER, I helped manage a portfolio for the University and did very well. I also won my stock market game by purchasing AIG before the government bailed out the company at $2 a share and an ETF that tracked the S&P500 with the entire portfolio. No insider information, just me sitting in the library thinking I am quite clever. In my opinion, beating the S&P500 as an undergraduate was a great way to distinguish myself from other candidates from all over the world. I mean that is the goal, so who cares about gpa right?
. Anyways, I broke my shoulder right before I graduated so I hung out in Lincoln being a teller, my college job. I ended up working at an insurance company for 9 months as an Agency Operations Specialist and was let go over things I could not control. I went unemployed for around 5 months after applying to nearly 600 jobs. I finally took some temp work at a Financial company and that is what I am doing now. I am hoping that my recent GMAT score will help me get my foot in the door in order to get some real work experience doing what I love to do, which is portfolio management/ value investing. With all that being said, I am only 25 so I kind of want to postpone going to grad school for awhile as I do not think my work experience is up to par. I may also retake the GMAT at some point down the road as I felt that if I took it again I would score somewhere closer to a 680 than 650. I also want to study under a guy named Bruce Greenwald, who teaches value investing at Columbia, so a higher gmat score would probably be necessary. That obviously won't be the only place I apply too. If you could provide some candid advice that would be great.
-BP
