Ian Krell
Degree
- Bachelor's degree - business administration in economics (EMU, 2015)
Current position
- CG-07 Financial institution specialist - FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) Boston South District
Extracurricular at EMU
- Fed Challenge (2014)
- Member of Student Veterans Group
- Financial assistant at Ameriprise Financial Services during enrollment at EMU
- Part of the "Why Study Economics?" presentation group
Scholarships, honors, research
- 3.87 Cumulative GPA (Magna cum Laude)
- Dean's list (Spring 2011–Winter 2015)
- Undergraduate GPA 3.75 or higher (2013)
- Omicron Delta Epsilon Honorary Society (2014)
- Selected above peers in a 1200 applicant pool to interview with the FDIC and subsequently was part of a 12-member group that received tentative offers for full-time positions (top one percent of applicants)
EMU economics experience
"The economics program at EMU gave me the tools to be a competitive applicant in the FDIC recent graduate hiring program. My own drive, work ethic and execution of the requirements to achieve my current position would not have, by themselves, been enough to get me here. The field of economics versed me in the trade and exchange of all different types of assets and ideas. Principles of economics are seen in nearly every discipline offered in higher education. For every end pursued, there is a cost imposed on the individual pursuing that end. My study of economics has taught me to look for the costs, benefits and incentives presented by all types of situations that I face every day in and out of the workplace."
"EMU's Economics department offers a small, tightly-knit group of professors that service a moderately-sized group of students. I always have thought that the ratio of instructor to student in each course is more than adequate and the professors are very helpful and available. The professors truly love the discipline of economics and it is seen in every lecture that they give. This passion for teaching that they displayed throughout my college career really kept me going and drove me to achieve."