Between 60% and 70% is a 2:1, at least at my uni when I was an undergrad.

<t>Thanks for the advice Dominic. So far I have been tweaking my CV a little for each different application but I should probably be altering it to a greater degree in each case.I have been reading the forums for a while now (I don't like to post somewhere until I get a feel for the culture of the c...

The CV/Resume thing is just a linguistic difference then, here what you call a resume is a CV and what you call a CV is an academic CV.I guess I will have to try and get past my stereotypical British reserve and start spamming my CV to people even if I am not a perfect match.

<t>Thanks for the positive comments pipih and richard.Twofish, when I said "hopefully" I didn't mean I was planning on doing nothing, I just meant "hopefully I haven't wasted the time I spent on those applications". I expended quite a lot of time and effort to sell myself and it would be a shame if ...

<t>I appreciate you all spending your time (which I'm sure is much more valuable than mine) to give me advice. I am job hunting in London and I imagine the UK graduates siginificantly less than 1000 physics PhD's (let alone fully theoretical) per year so sometimes I wonder how these jobs can be so c...

Thanks for your responses, I am glad to hear that this sort of wait time is normal. I was worried they had just forgotten about me or decided I wasn't up to the task without informing me.

<t>Hey Everybody,Just over a month ago I applied directly (i.e. through their careers website) to a couple of large IBs for entry level quant positions and have heard nothing back since then. When I check the application status they are both still "under review". I am near the end of my theoretical ...

Would it be possible to change my username?Thanks!

<t>Hey everybody, this is my first post so please tell me if I do something wrong. I had a go at this a little while ago as it seemed like a nice problem but forgot to post what I came up with. I thought people might find it interesting, mostly because if this came up in an interview my code is very...