<p>I'm an accounting student entering my junior year. I REALLY want a big 4 internship and I hear recruiting starts immidiately when the fall semester starts. My GPA is pretty low but I think my school is heavily recruited. </p>
<p>Are most big 4 interns juniors or are some seniors?</p>
<p>Is there any possible way to get a big 4 internship with a sub 3point GPA?
Does being a minority help? I've had accounting internships: one with a small real estate company and the other was a science internship with a prestigious university(case western reserve). Will any of this help my cause? Thank you</p>
<p>Bump… I also want to ask an additional question… After taking which accounting courses does an accounting major usually look for an internship.?</p>
<p>At my school it’s usually the first semester of your junior year when you look for a internship and they’ll have the internship either Spring/Winter or summer of the next year. So if they look for a internship fall of 12’ then they’d do the internship in spring 14’ or summer 13’.</p>
<p>We usually only have the first two financial and managerial courses actually done but are just starting the upper level classes.</p>
<p>Are you sure its spring '14? Or. Is it spring '13?</p>
<p>You really need to ask this question at your college. They determine when you can apply for an internship. My daughter had one after her sophomore year, but she also had a stellar GPA (4.0), so that may have had something to do with why.</p>
<p>They want you to do your internship the year before you are 150 ready and thus ready to work at the firm. For some it is the summer before senior year and for others it is the summer before grad school.</p>
<p>For Big 4, I would say that anything under 3.0 will make your candidacy for Big 4 a steep climb.</p>
<p>How much more difficult would it be to secure an internship by the summer before senior year if you were a community college student who transferred as a junior to a university that’s ranked top-10 for accounting? As opposed to a student that spent all four years at said university?</p>
<p>I can’t see that being much of a disadvantage seeing as a good number of business programs are only two years (junior and senior year).</p>