Pearl-Cohn Academy of Finance (Business Magnet)

The Academy of Finance introduces students to the variety of career opportunities in the financial services industry while simultaneously teaching them how our highly complex international economy works and equipping them with the conceptual and practical tools they need to choose their future professions.

Our Advisory Board is the heart of the Academy model and vital to the success of our students here at Pearl-Cohn. The board is  made up of local business people who possess a wealth of experience, knowledge and expertise that they are eager to share. Advisory board members sponsor and/or recruit others to offer internships, scholarships, provide mentoring (personally and through their employees and colleagues) and open up their workplaces for site visits.  Our Advisory Board sponsors The Taste of Nashville annually to assist our business students with scholarships and other business-related activities such as camps and conferences for Pearl-Cohn students.

Academy of Finance (AOF) Admission Requirements:

1. Complete  application process
2. Earn no less than a C average every nine weeks
3. Successfully complete three (3 units of) business classes within four years.
4. Participate in summer Internship for six to eight weeks at the end of the junior year
5. Participate as a member of Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA)
6. Daily observe school dress code

Top Scholarship Eligibility Requirements:

1. Complete the scholarship application
2. 3.0 average or above
3. 19 or above on ACT
4. Submit a resume
5. Submit a transcript
6. Three confidential recommendation letters or recommendation check lists by non-business teachers to AOF teacher in sealed envelope by designated deadline (in early April).
7. Typed essay, “How the Academy Has Prepared Me for Life After High School (no more than two pages)

Students will be placed on Probation for the following:

1. Grades falling below a C average for 9 weeks
2. Suspensions (Academy students should have no Out of School Suspensions (OSS)
3. Dress Code violations--there should be no more than 3 times for In-School Suspension (ISS)
4. Probation is for one 9-week period. If improvements have not occurred, a student will be dropped from the Academy.

AOF COURSE SCOPE

Each summer, AOF students are encouraged to work as paid interns at banks, brokerage houses, stock exchanges, insurance companies, accounting firms, government agencies, and finance departments in a variety of corporations and industries.