<p>Well…it’s been a while, but my kid was asked for them for a summer asnalyst job. About half the summer analysts were Wharton students and I think GPA was probably more important for them. However, a lot of financial firms are willing to take a gamble on kids who majored in humanites, social studies, or foreign languages IF they have sufficient math aptitude and they think a high SAT M score proves that. My kid also listed SAT II score and AP BC Calc score. This was just designed to indicate that kid was good enough at math to succeed as an analyst. </p>
<p>As discussed in other threads, there are kids at top colleges who got in despite lower SAT scores–especially lower scores on one half of the SAT. And I also suspect–though nobody’s ever told me–that firms think there may be some kids who got into top colleges because they are URMs, recruited athletes, legacies, developmental admits or celebrity kids. Being the best high school quarterback in the US could probably get you into Stanford even if you weren’t all that great at math. </p>