re: College student seeking advice

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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.

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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.