<p>After every semester, I have the registrar mail me an official copy of my transcript to my home. When CareerNet asks me to upload an unofficial transcript, what does that mean? I scanned my transcript and tried to upload the pdf but it was too big to upload. As a result, I am tempted to go to student center and just copy and paste the classes and grades onto a word document. However, this seems very unofficial. What do other students do?
For one of the applications, I just submitted my resume and cover letter via careernet and then later emailed the contact person with a pdf version of my transcript.</p>
<p>Thanks for any suggestions.</p>
<p>P.S.: I am a sophomore and I submitted a few applications to some big name banks. I am just curious as to how difficult it is to get internships in finance/ibanking/private wealth management for a sophomore econ major at Cornell? My GPA is pretty high and I have a decent amount of appropriate business extracurricular activities but it still seems too daunting to be able to find a summer internship. I am not in a business frat and I don’t have any connections in the business world either.</p>
<p>If you go into the student center grade portal, you can print pdfs of the webpages. Then you can stitch together the pdfs of the different semesters for a full unofficial transcrip.</p>
<p>Copying and pasting into a Word document is fine.</p>
<p>FYI - when you scan you have option of making the file smaller (not as clear), just like a jpg.</p>
<p>As far as getting a banking internship as a sophomore, it is very difficult. Most firms are only looking at juniors. If you have very high GPA, Goldman has a program where they would have you intern for a week over the spring break, if it works out then they would offer you an internship. There is also a NYC summer course offered by Cornell, where you would have class taught by a Cornell alum (I think he is at Goldman) and you would have 3 weeks internship at a bank. Let me know if you can’t find the link for the course on CU site.</p>
<p>Cornell does a very good job of getting internships for its students. Over the winter break the career center sponsored Cornell Days at most of iBanks in NYC. Each bank selected 15-50 kids to participate and there were a lot of Cornell alums at each event. It’s a very good opportunity for students to get a first hand look at those firms and to also make the first contact for Jan interview.</p>
<p>My daughter is going through Cornell’s career center and is able to get interviews at most of those banks. Last year, as a sophomore she did 2 non-paying internships at those banks. It helped her out tremendously to know if it’s something she would like to do, and more importantly understand how ibanks are structured/organized. One of those internships was through the course I mentioned above. My daughter is a math/econ major. Many students from engineering, hotel, ILR, A&S do go into banking. </p>
<p>Try to take few finance courses (in hotel or AEM) and accounting to round out your major.</p>