<p>I just transferred to Baruch from a CC. I had a 3.6 gpa from cc and a couple of leadership roles. I applied for an internship at pricewaterhouse coopers, ernst & young, and delloite. I got rejected by all of them.
Well, there's always next semester
p.s. i'm a junior</p>
<p>Good luck next semester.</p>
<p>You didn’t even get interviews?</p>
<p>If that’s the case you’re SoL this year. Not getting an interview means you are at the bottom of the barrel of the list of applicants. </p>
<p>You need to spend the next year building contacts and gaining leadership positions AT YOUR CURRENT SCHOOL. You cannot say “there is always next semester”. That sounds like you are just hoping that next semester their minds will change about your resume and they’ll grant you an interview. Let’s not forget you still have to charm their pants off through two rounds of interviews and several social events. </p>
<p>I’m sorry, but this is a classic example of why a CC can damage your college career. You were among (most likely) hundreds of applicants who had been taking more difficult coursework at a 4 year university. You also have lost 2 years of being able to gain reputations in organizations around campus. Hate to be the one to tell you, but they just don’t see rising to leadership positions on a CC campus as anything special where there are so many ordinary people.</p>
<p>If the companies you’re applying to work for are stupid enough to give a crap whether you’re leadership roles we’re at a CC or a university then there is no way you should be wasting precious moments of your life on them. That is just one of the stupidest things I have ever heard.</p>
<p>Stupid? Welcome to a competitive industry. </p>
<p>I mean, granted, my comment hinges on whether or not he even got an interview. However, NYC Big 4 is the most competitive in the world. If he applied in a less glamorous city than it’d be different. However, with a place like NYC a community college puts you at a disadvantage. Seriously, why wouldn’t it matter? To get a Big 4 interview you need leadership experience. If you have thousands of applicants with leadership at prestigious four year colleges with people who are having to work harder and have already achieved more academically, wouldn’t those qualifications out-do the CC leadership? </p>
<p>Let me guess, you had leadership at a CC? </p>
<p>If he did get interviews than he’s even more screwed. If they gave you an interview and rejected you it means they didn’t like your personality and thats much less likely to change than the things on his resume. </p>
<p>Also, nice straw man there. Idiot.</p>
<p>Inmotion. </p>
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<p>Obviously this is something you “expect” to achieve. Here is where the problem lies. At a CC you can expect to get this fantastic gpa with reasonable certainty. The courses are dumbed down, because CC is filled with people who couldn’t get in to college/dropped out of college/are just looking to take a class (as well as people who use it as a bridge) employers will take the GPA with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>A constant argument on these boards is how name of the school matters. So when you come from a CC the name has NO meaning to employers.</p>
<p>When you gain leadership experience at a University you are doing it among a much higher percentage of talented, competitive, and potentially-successful peers. When you do it at a CC you may be running an organization filled with quite a few drop outs, maybe a couple of pregnant girls, quite a few 35+ year old divorced women, etc. (being slightly sarcastic here). </p>
<p>As someone who is in CC it’s not something you want to hear, but it’s the truth. The things you do at a CC just aren’t impressive when compared to what someone is doing at a University. Facts of Life Lesson #134A.</p>
<p>EDIT: I had an interesting discussion with someone the other day about CC. These days people try to say “I went to CC to save money”. I hear two things in that statement “I am completely oblivious to the enormous amount of grant money available to low-income students” and “I didn’t do well enough in HS to get said grant money/merit scholarships”.</p>
<p>I might be wrong but don’t the accounting firms look to take on summer interns the year before they hit 150 credits? Could it be that you are a year from meeting that requirement?</p>
<p>PLS,</p>
<p>May I ask what your experience is with CC? There is a lot that I agree with and disagree with when it comes to people’s impressions of it.</p>
<p>I personally have experience with both. While I completely sympathize with your notions of what CC classes are like I personally can’t say that University classes are clearly more competitive or difficult for the equivalent classes. </p>
<p>Yes the higher level classes I have taken tend to be more challenging, but those classes weren’t offered at CC. So if we compare just the lower division subject classes and GEs I had to endure, I would say the difficulty was not significantly higher after transferring or before it. The attitudes that some teachers may have had about babying young students and tolerating their BS was same with some lower GEs I took at University. A lack of challenge also existed in many of them. If I had to list the most challenging few classes I have had to take thus far, it would probably be a near even split between CC and University. </p>
<p>And as far as the more competitive and potentially successful people at University, I agree. However, they are not more leadership oriented or ‘take initiative’ type of people in my opinion. It just went from ‘I hate school I want to go home’ to ‘I need to get good grades so I SOMETIMES go to class but I make sure I study a lot at home.’ They are just more studious but not ambitious and eager to develop the way people make it out to be.</p>
<p>Of course school reputation matters and it should be used if you can afford to do so. I don’t disagree with the lack of weight CC ends up having for many people viewing a performance record. I just had to share my disagreement as far as the content of CC curriculum goes in comparison to University in general.</p>
<p>Pewbel, I agree with you. I would say that the difficulty of any course depends on a professor who teaches it, but not on a type of university/college. </p>
<p>nybrian, you didn’t get in becasue you are probably didn’t take upper level accounting classes yet. As you know, when you transfer from one college to another, your GPA becomes a zero. However, since you have an associates degree, they will evaluate you only based on that. You should probably take some accounting classes, and try to apply at the end of your junior year, but not at the beginning. BTW, do you have an associates in accounting, or something else?</p>
<p>unforutunately a associates in business administration. I took accountting 11, and 12, and i will take another beginner course, and financial accounting 1 next semester. I’m not taking acc classes this semester bec i was told i couldn’t</p>
<p>^Now this is the answer for your question. IMO, it is almost impossible to get an internship at an accounting firm by compleating only the introduction to accounting course. Just get good grades, complete financial accounting, auditing, taxation, and then shoot for the stars.</p>
<p>nybrian, you are a junior, and if you are planning to graduate in May 2012, put your graduation off until the end of 2012 and point toward a spring busy season internship in 2012. By then you will probably taken both intermediate accounting classes. A lot of regional firms even do not offer internships without both intermediates being completed. So many people get weeded out by the intermediates that, especially in this economy when internships may be fewer than other years, recruiters don’t have to gamble on people who have only taken intro accounting classes and just think they are going to get accounting degrees only to change majors after taking intermediate accounting.</p>
<p>I know plent of people who got internships without Int. If he was trying to get summer than he should have been able to take at least Int I. </p>
<p>So you can eliminate that as the problem.</p>
<p>I got my internship with only Intermediate 1. They know I will also take Int 2 before the start. Interview skills >>> EVERYTHING ELSE, btw.</p>