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Not at all. I got pretty good grades in school but I habitually skipped class and definitely was not an A+ student. And CPA exam scores were all 75-80. I'm almost 10 years in to my career, though, and been a high performer since day one.
Hmm. School top performers are measured in an objective way, exams. Top performers in business are measured subjectively, personality has a lot to do with it. So yes. It's probably the case that book smarts < street smarts.
No - did the bare minimum to maintain a good enough GPA. Worked all through school though
No. barely graduated college with a 2.2gpa and snuck into the firm by not releasing my transcripts.
"Top rated accounting school"... I always get a kick out of that one.
Yup
No. Average grades
performers*
Yes and no. Did I get good grades? Yes. Did I learn? No.
That Meant I busted my ass in school and bust my ass here
^AS1- money = motivation (for me, anyway)
What does top/high performance mean? Honest question
@pwc1 say what you want but when you walk out of school having your selection of any firm you want at any location then you know your school brought some sort of prestige value to the table.
Prestige does matter for bschool and some exit opps
I skipped class a lot but did well on tests. I don't know why as soon as I started working I felt very motivated to be successful.
I'm a top performer at EY and did well in school, but not a top student. I also worked part time for 10-20 hours per week. I think there's some people in PA who are book smart, but lack that extra something to do well in PA
I don't think there's a whole lot of direct correlation between top students and top performers. The circumstances are so different, that there's all kinds of people who were good at one and not the other.
EY3 - just based on my experience, top performers are ppl who can make their boss's life easier. The more things I can delegate without concern of having to take heat from a client/sr manager/partner later, the higher performer they are.
No. I was an experienced hire and EY never would have recruited me out of college. Was five rated first four years of employment. No correlation IMO. You need to be able to figure stuff out IRL and on the fly not be able to solve text book riddles that are almost never as straight forward when you come across them OTJ. How many more acronyms can I use in one post?! clearly work for EY 😂
No.
Hah - I was a top student and now I'm only a pretty good performer. I think its because I refuse to make my job the number one priority in my life.