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<p>no anyone with a real interest still applies and interviews if they get any, because it costs virtually nothing to drop resumes online and then give 25 minutes to meet an interviewer. low gpa never prevents someone from applying to finance altogether. Students with any GPA above ~2.5 (which is pretty much everyone at Columbia) can get a first round interview in some back office division somewhere. When I say 10-20% are actually interested in finance, i mean the other 80-90% prioritizes engineering, law, medicine, journalism, publishing, public health, music, architecture, literature etc. over finance to the extent that they don’t bother applying because they don’t want to be in the industry. This would be in line with a place like brown or cornell SAS + engineering. At Columbia people are willing to be unemployed for a little while or start with demeaning work to be in their industry of choice. Do you think more than 20% of Columbia is interested in finance?</p>