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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First, it's hard to get bad grades at an elite school due to grade inflation.

Second, if you have an HYPS degree, no one cares about your grades. I've literally never put my GPA on a resume. I wasn't advised to do so by our career office, and I find it very odd when people do it.

Basically, unless you include it on your resume, no one hiring you knows where you ranked in your class. And at least at my undergrad, the only signifier of rank was whether you were Phi Beta Kappa or not.[/quote]

Eh. My DH and I met on Wall Street back in the late 90s in two different investment banks. We both had to put GPA AND SAT scores on our first applications. Not sure if they still do that but I wouldn't be surprised. I'm pretty sure the bank I worked with had a 1400 minimum. Meaning if you couldn't score above that, you weren't worth looking at all.[/quote]

+1.  The banks that did OCI at HYP all wanted GPAs and a transcript. A few people bottom 10%ers tried to get slick and "forgot" to send their transcripts. HR always called, either before the flyout interview or before they made the offer, and that was the end of his candidacy.  He apparently managed to sneak into a lower-end bank with understaffed HR.[/quote]

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