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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC is at an Ivy playing a sport.  It seems like a great conversation starter for her at fairs and in interviews.

I think the athlete network thing is overhyped. At least she has not seen it.  She really does not have time to network, not like how the kids in finance clubs at her school do.

[b]For the best finance jobs, they just want the smartest kids with quantitative skills.  They’ll take a physics major over a tennis player any day.  [/b]

For her, her sport continues to teach things that will carry forward. The biggest are accountability and time management and drive. But [b]when you drop your resume at JPM they want to see first and foremost your GPA and the classes you are taking (the more math the better). [/b][/quote]

This is accurate.

Have a relative who was an athlete at Duke. Close friends with many of his teammates. One Dad heads up an IB firm. While Duke places well in finance, relative got nothing, but math is his weakness.

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