koolcrud

I'd guess composite, since that's what the colleges are doing.

Dcho711

just to make sure, composite means the best of EACH section right? not in one sitting? just want to make sure cuz i sometimes get confused about what composite means

koolcrud

Yup, that's it. Best of each section.

farbdogg71

My dad works for a major private securities company, Wedbush Morgan, and he says it is absolutely ridiculous for someone to include their SAT Scores, the only thing he says they might care about is being a national merit scholar, that shows something more than just doing well on a test.

bluestar7

i'd never include my sat score on my resume in college. there's no place for it.

however, that's not to say that investment banks and consluting firms don't ask either for you to report your scores or for copies of official sat scores. if you haven't been through the process yet, what's the point in attacking someone (months ago in this thread) who HAS and telling them that sat scores never come up. they do! they may not be important, but esp. w/ consulting in the bigger firms, they're definitely coming up.

bern700

I've applied to practically every large bank on wall street, as well as many boutique and regional banks, as well as most of the top 10 MC firms...on my resume I've never listed my GPA nor my SAT score...I've had probably 20-30 interviews and have been asked for SATs on one interview (it was a special case as the guy had to "play" the role of the mean ******* interviewer and he'd ask me questions like what was your sat? i'd say 1450 and he'd be a dick and say how'd you get into wharton...stuff like that - after the interview he told me that he was just made to play that role and wasnt really an ass), and GPA on maybe 4 interviews...

bluestar7

honestly, i've never seen it come up for internships (you're graduating in '08), but for post-graduation fulltime positions even at those same companies. (but i really believe that consulting firms want to see scores more frequently than wall st banks) i was taught by my school's career center to put my gpa on my resume... but yeah, people do resumes differently.

bern700

we're recommended to put it if we have a 3.5+ (which is honors) but the thing is that at wharton on paper your GPA can look like crap but in reality you are still doing well. For example, on many of my tests I've gotten say a 90% which for the majority of our tests is the median (these are really hard tests btw) so thus you end up getting a B/B- (2.7/3.0) depending on the curve. So say your GPA ends up being a 3.1 which on paper looks pretty bad...making employeers think that you really didnt master your subjects when in reality you're practically aceing tests.

georgejone

In the eyes of Wall Street is a Finance major with a 2.9 at Wharton regarded higher than a 4.0 student at a great state school(U-Del).

bern700

im not working on wall street yet but from what i've seen i know many people with sub 3.0 GPAs getting good banking jobs...so if they do hire these people then they must be at least somewhat well regarded but i dont know how much better or worse they are regarded.