<p>Should I stop thinking investment banking from now?? </p>
<p>I'm a freshman at UVa. This is my worst grade at least for now. I know I'm going to get bad grade on this class but I never expected a B-. I know ibanks want people with good math skills, and now I got a B- on this class. Is my chance of getting hired by them lowered significantly?? Should I take another math class again to show that I'm not a person with low quantitative skills? </p>
<p>My basic math is not bad. I got 750 on SAT Math and I got A on AP Calc BC back in high school.</p>
<p>This is totally out of the blue. I don't know what to do. Please help.</p>
<p>I'm a high school senior, but I took linear last semester. Out of curiosity, did you ever go on Course</a> 18.06: Linear Algebra ?</p>
<p>This is Gilbert Strang of MIT 's website, and his lectures are AMAZING. I had a horrible teacher, but I ended up pulling an A because I just learned from Strang ( he wrote our book, which helps too). If I were you, I'd just make sure I knew the properties of basis and eigenvalues/eigenvectors, as those were, to me, are the most important parts of linear that I'm using in diff EQ (which is what I'm assuming comes after linear in college?) </p>
<p>Either way, don't sweat it dude. I sucked at calculus, and I consider myself at least pretty decent at math. I think people oftentimes get the misconception that math is all the same thing, when it really isn't. It's good that you're a freshman, because that means you can still improve. I may not be in the industry, but I can pretty much guarantee that recruiters would rather see an upward grade trend than a downward one. If investment banking is what you really want to do, then no, you should never give up.</p>
<p>Investment banking requires addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; if you are thinking S&T, you may need to find a way to explain it.</p>
<p>Additionally, for the most part, they will only look at your overall GPA, unless they ask for your transcript beforehand at which point they would see individual grades. </p>
<p>However, many do not request a transcript until background check time.</p>
<p>thanks guys... I was just totally freaked out when I saw that B- so I got really distressed when I started this thread. Anyway, I did very well on other classes though and hopefully I'll have 3.7 this semester.</p>
<p>I had both a B- in Linear Algebra and a 760M SAT and got a job in IB, although it was before the days of recent grade inflation. </p>
<p>As a freshman, you can't be focused on each grade and how it relates to your future career. You're going to drive yourself crazy and isn't really how it works anyway.</p>