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re: College student seeking advice
Posted on 2/7/13 at 11:31 pm to bigDinBr
Posted on 2/7/13 at 11:31 pm to bigDinBr
I am senior right now and am doing an internship with one of the big 4 and I would definitely say this is the best thing to do before you graduate. You get a great idea of what it is like to be in public accounting during busy season.
Depending on where you want to be I would start talking to recruiters and trying to figure out the best way to do it. There is one kid in my intern class from LSU so I know they allow you to do spring internships.
On the graduate school part, you can do that or if you want get a double major. The firms don't really care they just want you to be CPA elgible when you start.
I live like 2 blocks from there right now
In my experience it really depends on location, Dallas you had to have a 3.5ish and above or know someone but Houston I know of people with low 3s. Houston is great place to be and is where I am at now.
Depending on where you want to be I would start talking to recruiters and trying to figure out the best way to do it. There is one kid in my intern class from LSU so I know they allow you to do spring internships.
On the graduate school part, you can do that or if you want get a double major. The firms don't really care they just want you to be CPA elgible when you start.
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Houston Community College
I live like 2 blocks from there right now
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We look at anyone 3.0 and up.
In my experience it really depends on location, Dallas you had to have a 3.5ish and above or know someone but Houston I know of people with low 3s. Houston is great place to be and is where I am at now.
This post was edited on 2/7/13 at 11:36 pm
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Posted on 2/9/13 at 8:02 am to reb13
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In my experience it really depends on location, Dallas you had to have a 3.5ish and above or know someone but Houston I know of people with low 3s. Houston is great place to be and is where I am at now.
It depends year over year, but our cut off for considering people is 3.0. After that, we look at how you stack up against your peers.
I'd suggest doing external/internal internships if your schedule allows. In a lot of instances you will use very little of your accounting knowledge in an internal audit setting. Ie more process evaluation vs traditional accounting. It's really a matter of preference.
I think the biggest piece of advice I'd give current students is to have short/long term goals of what you want to get out public acct experience if you do it and what level job youd like to have when you leave. Without them its very easy to want to quit while you are working 60+ hr weeks for prolonged period.
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