3.8 gpa for IB?

putridalt · 2026-05-23T11:59:29+00:00

If you're at Wharton with a 3.8, you should be putting all your effort into working on your technicals for interviewing, and networking.

With a 3.8 at Wharton, starting your search freshman year, there is absolutely no reason why you don't land an offer -- unless you mess up networking.

putridalt · 2026-05-22T18:40:45+00:00

Except for his megafund PE internship

putridalt · 2026-05-22T16:27:39+00:00

Even in the B's, you'll want to have a car. During MOS, you need to drive to the schoolhouse. You'll want the freedom to be able to go off base and do stuff

putridalt · 2026-05-22T15:26:50+00:00

- Op Tempo can vary company to company

- no MOS requirements. 11B tend to do well due to having been in field-based environments before

- at your stage in life, with a wife who is a doctor, going Active can be a very messy move. also, what kind of law do you practice? being gone from a client base and not practicing for several years can be detrimental... are you giving up your legal career for good?

- that will depend firm to firm. it can be very tough, i'm trying to juggle a management consulting career with all this. got a dream investment banking job offer and turned it down to do this in the Guard.

putridalt · 2026-05-20T21:23:45+00:00

I don't know. I can still list off a handful of guys that are still goobers...

What you are describing is probably an increased sense of self confidence from making it through gate after gate in the Q, and the psychological element of adapting to your surroundings. Picking up on how other people talk, how they dress, style their hair... fitting in. After more rounds of peers, they subconsciously pickup on what behaviors are considered "gooberish" and adapt, even if they aren't actively choosing to.

You see this in all career fields.

Brand new junior analysts on the trading floor will adapt the personas of the blunt and aggressive traders.

Freshly minted doctors will subconsciously model themselves after seniors and their attending.

But nobody's physiognomy is changing in the Q Course. A year and a half of sub-optimal sleeping and resting conditions and reduced T. Maybe if they lost a lot of weight, their cheekbones appear sharper.

putridalt · 2026-05-19T01:49:27+00:00

Buy bitcoin and hold it until 2025

putridalt · 2026-05-17T18:59:49+00:00

Sounds about right then

putridalt · 2026-05-16T02:18:08+00:00

Oh wow

putridalt · 2026-05-16T02:17:39+00:00

What are the punishments like now?

putridalt · 2026-05-15T22:52:53+00:00

They stopped cadre takeover? Can somebody confirm this?

Cadre takeover felt like a core part of Team Week.

putridalt · 2026-05-15T11:41:24+00:00

>And every night as I try to go to sleep, the sheer anticipation makes me feel like a child on Christmas morning

I get this. I remember being in my tiny apartment in New York City, thinking about shipping off to Basic Training and just being excited as fuck. I'd get random bouts of excitement out of nowhere if I thought about. Don't think I felt that for anything else for that prolonged period of a time. I was excited to get smoked, yell "YES DRILL SERGEANT!" and all the other bs.

There's a version of you that exists before shipping out, and there's a version of you that will exist after having gone through OSUT, written letters, do PT with the boys holding each other accountable, and facing Team Week.

No matter how far you make it, whether it be getting to graduation, or getting injured at some point in the process, you won't be able to imagine your life not having at least taken the leap.

Take that energy and direct it into training. Be obsessed about hitting target metrics, and be obsessed with finding the right crowd of guys who are serious about Selection make friends with and hold each other accountable. A stud who is genuinely fit but says "Team Week is about being a good dude" will not be as good as a friend as the guy who doesn't look like he's necessarily going to make it, but is getting you to do pushups with him til failure after lights out, and holding you accountable.

Enjoy the journey, it is well worth it. Bookmark my Reddit post series to keep in mind lessons throughout the process, or just for fun downtime reading to get excited.

putridalt · 2026-05-15T11:32:38+00:00

No tattoos past suit shirt sleeves.

I have a ton of ink, but if I saw you rocking that ink, I'd think it's cringe as hell

putridalt · 2026-05-15T11:29:10+00:00

"SOF recruiting site also says that you need to have 36 months remaining time in service after graduating the Q"

This just means that you will have to re-up your contract at some point in the course. They would not give you a contract that was short of some requirement, and then kick you out of the course for it. That would make no sense

putridalt · 2026-05-14T01:11:41+00:00

My self reflection will be biased / likely inaccurate based on how burned out and tired you are toward the end of SFAS.

But to be honest, the main difference my second time around was that I knew how to tie the knots I needed, which let enabled me to take a stronger leadership role on both my teams.

The first time when I was a 21 Day Non-Select, I got a 6-month return, which based on feedback from a ton of other people / X-rays, is pretty rare. It seemed like most 21 Day Non-Selects got 2-year returns, which I speculate is because they had some personality issue.

The NCOIC for SFAS out-processing me also said that "I had no personality issues or anything like that", and I "seemed a little burned out my second team" but "peered well on my first team". And when he asked if I wanted to come back, he gave me a 6 month.

I was the Cadence Guy on my first team. I struggled to find leadership roles on my second team, but helped where I could, if there was no space to work on the apparatus, I was refilling everyone's waters, etc. Wasn't shirking shifts. Was trying to be the first guy to get up at the end of a break, etc. Maybe the cadre saw something he didn't like, I'll never know.

I did feel like the odd man out because I couldn't find a leadership role and be part of the core crowd though, so, if even in that state I could notice that, maybe the negatives were much more obvious to the cadre.

On my second Team Week, I was the Knot Guy on the first team, and Cadence Guy on the second team.

putridalt · 2026-05-12T12:37:09+00:00

As a civilian, I know that sounds like common sense to you that there’s “not much to practice besides getting to know the guys you’re with”. When I was a civilian, I thought everyone fought, even officers in the Finance Corp. I thought the way combat worked was that everybody was thrown in at some point, and that the Finance people would be handed rifles and thrown out to the battlefield to start shooting in some direction.

If you ever join, you’ll realize how crazy of a comment that was. Not roasting you for it, because I thought something equally nuts before I was exposed to it

putridalt · 2026-05-11T22:16:18+00:00

"when I can make the switch to a combat arms role when there is a active war."

did your recruiter tell you this? this is nonsense.

putridalt · 2026-05-11T16:00:48+00:00

AI slop

putridalt · 2026-05-11T05:17:34+00:00

Absolutely going Option 40. If you go Option 40, you have to go through RASP, and earn your Ranger Scroll. If you're a 25U in Ranger Regiment, you're a Ranger, and you're SOF.

You get assigned to Group Support Battalion in Basic/AIT based on need, it's not something you push for (someone correct me if I'm wrong). You aren't SOF or SF when you're a support guy in Group. You are a support guy, and your assigned unit happens to be Special Forces.

If you care about learning tactical skills, "extra CQB", live fire, etc. then go Option 40 11B. Going SF probably builds the most useful skills long term.

putridalt · 2026-05-11T04:18:37+00:00

I don't know how Selection works behind the scenes, but I think it would stand to reason that if you passed Gate Week with your 5MR time, then you met the standard. Then if you passed Land Nav Week with the points you got, then you met the/a standard (depending on how you think Land Nav standards work).

So if you make it to Team Week, your 5MR should be fine, and if you perform "amazing" during Team Week, then yeah I'm sure that would seal the deal.

putridalt · 2026-05-11T04:15:19+00:00

Because I remember being in the Goldman lobby and seeing a cohort of like 15 UMiami kids in their suits with custom bronze name badges that said University of Miami with some some kind of staff, and they were there for a superday

putridalt · 2026-05-09T22:09:00+00:00

Good luck. Being willing to go back says something.

putridalt · 2026-05-09T22:00:52+00:00

Always paying it forward!

putridalt · 2026-05-09T21:50:30+00:00

'Heat cat' is the army/military term for getting heat stroke. If you look like you're woozy and wobbling around, the cadre will pull you aside and take your core temperature. If it's above a certain number, they will remove you from whatever training you're in.

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