Applying to an Analyst class that is not yours?

So as the summer is winding down and summer internships are finishing up whether it was on IBD, PWM, PE, AM, S&T, some Summer Analysts received FT offers. While others weren't so lucky to receive an offer; they were still able to reap from the benefits of the networking opportunities at their respective firms. Which hopefully will provide them with an edge when full time recruiting comes to their school. That is if you go to a target school, in which every year BBs, MMs and other financial firms look to recruit top notch talent.

The leftover spots are for non targets that go to either state schools or other schools that aren't well known for the rigor of their business schools curriculum. If you live in New Jersey like myself ,and if you didn't attend Seton Hall, Rutgers, Rider University or local NYC Schools like Baruch or NYU your chances to break into Wall Street are slim to none unless your schools alumni Network is big which is very rare for schools in NJ.

I attended Montclair State University, do I have buyer's remorse? maybe just a bit, don't get me wrong my finance professors were brilliant people and I did learn a lot from them.The school's Achilles heel came down to the firms that attend our career fair in which the only somewhat reputable financial firm that attends our career fair is Prudential. I guess I also have to blame myself, because since I transfer to Montclair Sate University in 2012 I focused more of my energy towards my academics than to look for different networking opportunities with the few alumni's that do work in Finance, and to use my school's career services to find internships then again when you're a broke college student and you have to pay for school on your own you don't have much choices either.

I basically started at my local community college as an Accounting Major however after my sophomore year, I felt that it was a bit to dry for me. I still wanted to do something with a lot of number crunching and critical thinking so finance seemed to suit me the best and decided that I wanted to be a Financial Analyst. However as we all know the term "Financial Analyst" is such a broad term or as Wikipedia defines it a Financial Analyst can work as Credit Analyst, Investment Banking Analyst, Equity Research Analyst and as the Finance Analyst of a fortune 500 company. So my Dilemma was what did I really wanted to focus? My only experience with banking of any sort have has been my seasonal position as a teller and then my current position which is as Personal Banker although retail banking is quite different from Investment and Commercial Banking it has taught me a bit about financial services.

So what I really wanted to do was banking but not this type of banking since it lacks the number crunching and critical thinking criteria that I looked for. It wasn't until I took my corporate finance class in the fall semester of my senior year that I finally understood Investment Banking was the field I really wanted to work on. I heard from forums and other sources how the hours are brutal and how the work is menial, repetitive and boring,but despite all the negatives my corporate finance class taught me how the raising of Equity and Debt help business grow, and maintain their current operations, why companies do M&A and also the importance of the capital structure according to the Miller and Modigliani Theorem"s.The mistake I made was that I learned about this industry a little bit too late. I spent most of the summer of 2013 taking summer classes to speed up my graduation for the fall of 2013 instead, and when I started to search for boutiques, BBs, and MMs to apply to it was a bit to late recruiting had passed. Luckily I had found two alumni"s that work in Investment Banking that work for an MM but so far it seems that it hasn't be leading anywhere? I also being looking for internships but unpaid internships don't work when you have to pay for student loans on your own.

So over the past couple of weeks I have being compiling a List of boutiques, BBs and MMs bank also I been looking for
recruiters, analysts and associates in linked-in that I'm planning to apply to my question is it possible to get into the analyst class of 2015 or is it only reserved for the graduates of that year. Another couple of things I have done has been to revamped up my resume thanks to WSO Resume Review, I have gotten Certifications in Equity, Forex, Commodities and Fixed Income for the Bloomberg Terminal, Currently studying and taking CFA Level one in December and also preparing a valuation report on three firms in the pharmaceutical industry.