Am I even qualified to enrol?

@PaulyPelz unfortunately it seems like you are not qualified to enroll yet but you will be in a about a years.

According to CFAI’s website:

“Have a bachelor’s (or equivalent) degree
or be in the final year of your bachelor’s degree program at the time of registration*
or have four years of professional work experience (does not have to be investment related)
or have a combination of professional work and college experience that totals at least four years. Part-time positions do not qualify, and the four-year total must be accrued prior to enrollment.”

The combination of your college and work have to be at least four years. That means with 2.5 years of college with 0.5 years of experience you are short one year.

Unfortunately CFAI required that you have reached 4 years before you enroll for level I but you should be able to sit for the 2014 exam in December.

For me a CFA supercedes a degree/diploma @paulypelz. It’s a post grad equivalent.

@PaulyPelz, your grades/marks do not matter per se, but I think it is important to ask why they weren’t very great? I mean, you don’t have to share with us, but I would ask yourself that question. The answer to that question might help you understand whether the commitment and rigor of the CFA program will be right for you. If your marks were not great because you were prioritizing other things, or had difficult/time-consuming jobs, for instance, then that’s OK. But if it’s because you had little interest in your major, or struggled with a lot of the concepts, or had trouble motivating yourself to study….those are things that should be worked on and dealt with before committing the time and money and brainpower to the CFA.