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

by herrsque (Chimp, 2 Banana Points Points) on 9/9/08 at 2:56am

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.

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I've only ever met 2 from

by b2 (Gorilla, 516 Banana Points Points) on 9/9/08 at 3:07am

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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by WallStreetOasis.com Certified User(Senior Gorilla, 777 Banana Points Points) on 9/9/08 at 3:07am
herrsque wrote:

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.

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lol best thing you've done

by Paradoxical (Monkey, 39 Banana Points Points) on 9/9/08 at 8:13am

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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If you really want

by chuckles02912 (Monkey, 56 Banana Points Points) on 9/9/08 at 9:59am

If you really want i-banking, at least you have two years to transfer.

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One of the SAs in my class

by matchbox39 (Senior Monkey, 87 Banana Points Points) on 9/9/08 at 10:16am

One of the SAs in my class this summer was a freshman from Wesleyan, but we were convinced that they knew the CEO of our firm...

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I know someone from

by Alex_Kap (Baboon, 145 Banana Points Points) on 9/9/08 at 10:56am

I know someone from Wesleyan, family, who went on to LB. Def possible, but like people said uphill battle.

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Morgan Stanley

by johnwesley (Chimp, 1 Banana Points Points) on 9/10/08 at 4:29pm

Morgan Stanley will be at Wesleyan for an entire evening next Tuesday, 9/16/08. It's on the Career Services website. If I could find this, why couldn't you?