Frosher at Wesleyan U, CT - prepping for i-banking?

Hello
I am a freshman at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. It is a fairly selective New England liberal arts college, although clearly not Amherst and Williams. What are your thoughts in regards to preparing for a future Wall Street career? What can I do in this context to give myself the maximum opportunity for i-banking?

I have talked to the career counselors, but they seem such an obnoxious bunch of left-wing ex-hippies, that I am tempted to disregard their usefulness alltogether.

 

I've only ever met 2 from Wesleyan in banking - 1 SEO candidate that ended up doing a summer in HK; don't think that he got an offer, but could be wrong. Another summer that ended up in Palo Alto for a different BB - he wanted NY, but didn't get it... not sure what his outcome was. The first guy only got in b/c of SEO... 2nd guy only got in b/c of a connex he had in Palo Alto - don't think that there are too many Wesleyans on the Street, unless they have some sort of "in".

 
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herrsque:
Hello I am a freshman at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. It is a fairly selective New England liberal arts college, although clearly not Amherst and Williams. What are your thoughts in regards to preparing for a future Wall Street career? What can I do in this context to give myself the maximum opportunity for i-banking?

I have talked to the career counselors, but they seem such an obnoxious bunch of left-wing ex-hippies, that I am tempted to disregard their usefulness alltogether.

girl from Wesleyan was in my analyst class of 12 at Rothschild in 2002. she was cool and lasted longer than all of us -- some of us left after 2 years (myself included), she stuck it out for 3.

it is possible but also an uphill battle.

 

lol best thing you've done is be a freshman, market's terrible as is.

Other than that, study what you love, get good grades, a vaguely important internship soph summer (travel or do something fun freshman summer) and then apply for the sa, etc.

have fun and best of luck, you can def. make it from wesleyan

Paradoxical

 

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