Shouldn’t my Wild Turkey be a tax deduction if this is true?
[quote]davan wrote:
RickJames wrote:
Social drinking is useful. The Millionaire Next Door also hinted at this with its discussion of what most self-made millionaires spent colleged doing (average GPA was something like a 2.3 - and that included doctors and lawyers). It’s very easy to see in many business environments. Go to where the big dogs hang out and there are advantages to be made.
There is no way this is true. You won’t even get into a 1/2 decent med or law school with that GPA. You aren’t getting into any form of Ibanking either with a GPA like that, nor pretty much any other job on wallstreet.
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And your reading comprehension and reasoning skills won’t get you into one either. LOL. Let me type this slowly:
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Average GPA of self-made millionaires was something low like a 2.3.
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This included doctors and lawyers - along with other people.
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It being obvious that those going into law and medical school would have higher GPA’s than the 2.3 means that there must have been quite a lot of self-made millionaires with less than a 2.3 GPA.
[quote]RickJames wrote:
davan wrote:
RickJames wrote:
Social drinking is useful. The Millionaire Next Door also hinted at this with its discussion of what most self-made millionaires spent colleged doing (average GPA was something like a 2.3 - and that included doctors and lawyers). It’s very easy to see in many business environments. Go to where the big dogs hang out and there are advantages to be made.
There is no way this is true. You won’t even get into a 1/2 decent med or law school with that GPA. You aren’t getting into any form of Ibanking either with a GPA like that, nor pretty much any other job on wallstreet.
And your reading comprehension and reasoning skills won’t get you into one either. LOL. Let me type this slowly:
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Average GPA of self-made millionaires was something low like a 2.3.
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This included doctors and lawyers - along with other people.
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It being obvious that those going into law and medical school would have higher GPA’s than the 2.3 means that there must have been quite a lot of self-made millionaires with less than a 2.3 GPA.
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The only way this is true is if we include athletes in there, which would obviously scew the data, or include extreme outliers (billionares who dropped out). Statistics point to aiming for a high GPA. If you think a 3.0 from schmuck state U is going to get you far, you are kidding yourself. Now, if you have a great idea that you can apply, it doesn’t really matter what your GPA is just like it doesn’t matter for an athlete.
Take away athletes and the extremes (Gates for example, who dropped out), and you don’t have many people that are rich without doing well in school. I would love to see how they gathered these statistics anyway, which are highly questionable alone.
Oh ya, it is a 2.7 GPA, not a 2.3, according to the one person who perpetuates this point.