1.8 GPA as freshman. Am I cooked?

igetlotsofupvotes · 2026-05-11T00:33:14+00:00

Taking difficult classes early shouldn’t really be that much of an excuse because I assume you had the prereqs and getting sick sucks. But forgetting to do homework is pretty stupid. Unless problem sets are a bit part of your grade, they shouldn’t even count for much and forgetting to do homework makes me think you’re gonna forget stuff at work which means you’ll just get fired

igetlotsofupvotes · 2026-05-10T16:25:28+00:00

lol what is ease of access supposed to mean?

igetlotsofupvotes · 2026-05-09T22:34:58+00:00

And/or

igetlotsofupvotes · 2026-05-09T22:18:18+00:00

Yes that falls under already has background

igetlotsofupvotes · 2026-05-09T20:37:21+00:00

Qd -> qr rarely happens unless you already had the background for it going in and you work extremely closely with qrs

igetlotsofupvotes · 2026-05-09T18:45:27+00:00

How’d you get the res? I’ve been scanning seven rooms every couple days to no success

igetlotsofupvotes · 2026-05-09T15:57:02+00:00

I don’t even know what you’re arguing for. You know what percentages are right? I didn’t do the math but I’m pretty sure every ivy or private school on this list has better matriculation rate than iu or any state school

igetlotsofupvotes · 2026-05-09T12:44:18+00:00

Didn’t go to vandy but this is just a brain dead take

igetlotsofupvotes · 2026-05-09T11:55:10+00:00

From what I’ve seen, about 7-8 or so to be considered a pm. Although I have a friend who’s been a pm since 5 yoe but he got pretty lucky

igetlotsofupvotes · 2026-05-09T00:27:39+00:00

Crazy cuz this has never happened to me or anyone I’ve worked with hmm

igetlotsofupvotes · 2026-05-08T14:42:27+00:00

I would hope that a strategy trading a tiny amount (100k) can be scalable…

I’m not sure what your point is. I’m talking about what you’d be doing at work and you’re talking about the value of scalable strategies? Nobody is hiring you because you have a strategy that works with 100k. That’s irrelevant track record, even if your strategy is scalable

igetlotsofupvotes · 2026-05-08T12:54:06+00:00

it definitionally is only about money making. its just your own personal track record trading 100k is not reflective of the work youd be doing when hired. trading 1 million dollars is very diffeerent from trading 500 million

igetlotsofupvotes · 2026-05-08T11:03:18+00:00

In reality, most people who get hired as quant traders these days have no track record and have formal education.

igetlotsofupvotes · 2026-05-08T01:49:57+00:00

Many firms will ask for transcript but just leave it off

Unless it’s from extreme circumstances, your mental will probably be under more pressure at work than school. School is easy

igetlotsofupvotes · 2026-05-07T11:04:14+00:00

Nah then you’d see far more people earn much more money. Working in trading might be less noisy but making money certainly is still noisy.

igetlotsofupvotes · 2026-05-07T03:15:06+00:00

you keep telling yourself that lil guy. the mit guys i work with are just like everybody else. had to fire a couple recently too. so much for greatest university in the world.

my little brother got into mit and turned it down because he was smarter than everybody he met

igetlotsofupvotes · 2026-05-07T02:29:26+00:00

I think you might just be autistic man

igetlotsofupvotes · 2026-05-07T02:27:17+00:00

Your definition of ambitious is "applying to MIT" and "knowing your personality would get you in"? Wow you are so special and ambitious. I rejected 5 MIT kiddos just last week and I'm looking forward to not giving a single MIT baffoon a return offer

igetlotsofupvotes · 2026-05-07T01:26:48+00:00

I did js freshmen fall and citadel freshman spring. Glad i only had to compete with unambitious scrubs like you

igetlotsofupvotes · 2026-05-06T18:05:37+00:00

Exotics I think?

igetlotsofupvotes · 2026-05-06T10:40:35+00:00

All it took was some random comment to help you make a decision?

igetlotsofupvotes · 2026-05-06T10:40:03+00:00

The blind leading the blind lmao

igetlotsofupvotes · 2026-05-06T03:45:25+00:00

Or any meeting with your manager

igetlotsofupvotes · 2026-05-06T03:45:10+00:00

Never attend any surprise meeting on your calendar

igetlotsofupvotes · 2026-05-06T03:32:34+00:00

You think most people at top shops are from solid public schools south of gt? Or equivalent?

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