High School Senior seeking Investment Banking Internship
Hello WSO, I'm new to this forum and would like to ask for some advice for my professional resume.
I am a high school senior right now who will be attending Princeton next year and I would like to pursue a career in investment banking. I have been fortunate enough to have been able to schedule interviews for special internship programs at several major investment banks through friends of my parents, my grandparents, and my older brothers.
I have already received some resume advice from my brothers (both of whom are already in the industry), but seek further opinion.
Please tell me how I can improve my resume and overall candidacy.
Thanks,
Eamon
So let's clarify...
You're going to Princeton and you aren't even in college yet you already have internships lined up at major banks through your parents friends and both of your brothers already in the industry?
I think you'll probably be ok.
Somebody protect this poor high school boy. This thread is going to become a shitshow when he posts that resume.
Gotta have a thick skin San...no time like the present. Although he may already have 4 BB internships judging by what he's already said
WoW. All I cared about when I graduated was women, beer, easily accessibility of drugs, parties, free beer, free drugs, and a low wage summer job. What the heck is going on with kids these days???
Enjoy your youth man, you will be working the rest of your life
WOW! So many responses and I haven't even uploaded yet. Thanks guys, razume doesn't seem to be working today, does anybody know of an equivalent site I could use?
@happypantsmcgee, thanks for the encouraging words. Unfortunately, I don't have 4 BB internships yet. However, I've worked at a large (over $5Bil) Event-Driven Hedge Fund and a Private Wealth Management office for UBS (if you consider them BB, then I suppose I have just one).
@San Franciscan, haha. Thank you for your concern, but I wouldn't post my resume if I believed it to be a poor reflection of myself. I'm unashamed of what I have, I just need the damn website to start working.
@eyelikecheese, I still enjoy myself fine. I travel often, am one of the few people in my town that actually enjoys his family without having to be mormon, love to sail, play sports, etc. With the exception of the girls, all the stuff you described never really appealed to me (least of all a low wage job, haha). I'm pretty square, if it's any indication, I got into Princeton on a recommendation for Math.
We'll be waiting to see your resume with bated breath...
Can someone let me know if this link works for them? http://www.razume.com/documents/18148
If you were 2nd in your class, who the heck was 1st in your class?
Who do you think was first in my class!? An asian girl on scholarship of course.
It's only the bottom and the middle of Wall Street that hates Obama.
Good thing I'm not interviewing with you then, haha!
One of my uncles is a travel writer. My entire family did an Antarctic voyage via this adventure travel agency. I was like 12. I'll try to find the link if you're interested.
You might have a point there, my brother thought it would be a good idea.
That being said, there's no evidence that Lloyd DOESN'T stalk these forums.
I guess I should take this as a complement?
I've been dating the same girl since I was 10 (I'm now 18), it's just not something I care to put on a resume.
Wooo Woo wait a minute...
You have been dating the same girl since you were 10! My dear friend, that is your problem. NO ONe dates the same girl during the most for formative years of your life. My advice, as i'm sure my fellow primates will agree, is to first ditch the girl, then we will talk
get the barack obama campaign out this is wall street
Read that part again, homeboy wasn't some blue collar volunteer. Do you know who David Axelrod is? That's not something he should take off.
Holy shit... I retract my previous statements.
what does matriculation mean :O
god damn mathematical modeling :O
I call bull shit on Technical Skills: Bloomberg, Capital IQ, Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook), Java, Python, C, C++, C#
Why the fuck were you in Antarctica?
why don't you ask your brothers, your parents and grandparents?
your family sounds mighty successful what can you expect to gain from this forum?
Lloyd Blankfein doesn't post here, m8
is this serious?
Get a girlfriend.
Also, this is fake BTW.
Pretty dang impressive for being a fake resume.
Dude, fuck you.
The fact that you thought posting here would get you anything of value makes me think this is fake.
If this is your actual resume you don't have anything to gain from anyone here.
If it isn't kudos on the good job trolling but get a fucking life.
Either way, Jesus Christ.
If your French, why the fuck do you have an Irish name?
Your resume is very stacked OP you shouldn't have a problem :)
Jesus F**&ing christ. Your resume is going to give Joyce Meng's a run for its money in a few years. Only thing I'd change is managing the 50k for the hedge fund. You underperformed the S&P 500 big time during that 3 month period in 2009 when anybody who threw a dart at a dart board would get 10% returns. Take that off. Other than that, I pity the person who has to go against you in interviews.
You will be more than fine.
Troll of the week
After all this research, we might have to give this guy Troll of the year! At least the YTD.
I feel like the level of coolness is reduced because of the amount of work he put into it. I'm all for funny but it's kind of depressing that someone has this much time and decides to devote it to this.
Troll of the history of WSO....
Sorry for reviving
I was about to call bullshit on this, but a few things check out.
This does not: Other than for 1st place prizes, prep schools don't rank and don't have unweighted / weighted GPAs. The GPAs are based on a 12 point scale and are almost always unweighted.
But then I saw his relevant coursework, they are actually Exeter classes. It all checks out. This could be real, or a very elaborate forgery which I am beginning to doubt.
If you were captain of the Exeter debate team, when was the last time Exeter won the Yale Model United Nations conference? What DANIES team do the Vavpetics coach? What happened to Hotchkiss’ running back before the New England champion game against Exeter last year? And Exeter's captain? Who was the last Exonian to qualify for worlds?
I've seen very similar resumes coming out of similar schools, this could be real.
Wasn't there a gigantic conspiracy or something and he was forced to sit out or something like that? I just remember seeing something to that tune on my facebook newsfeed.
Fake. There is no mention of an Eamon on the '09/''10 rosters of the schools lacrosse team. Case closed.
http://math.exeter.edu/ebergofsky/lax2010/2010%20alphabROSTER.html
Its definitely fake based on this. Quick look at all the captains bios rules this kid out (some didn't play all four years, others going to different schools, others played different sports not listed on the resume).
Now back to South Park.
Case closed:
Fake. He said he is the captain of the cross country team. There are 3 captains and not one of them is him. No one is from Connecticut, yet alone Greenwich, on the team.
Plus, it is near impossible to do all of the thigns he claimed and survive; I know a guy who went onto have the top GPA his first year at Princeton that could not have done half the shit this kid says he does. Exeter also no longer teaches AP courses, you can take the tests, but I doubt he actually took as many as he said he did. 10 is reasonable, 15 plus is pushing it. I went to a very similar prep school and I am now at Wharton, the work load here is no where near to what it was there. I just really doubt that one guy could do all that and survive. If you left out two or three of the computer skills, one language, and two or three APs, it would have been within the realm of reason.
http://www.exeter.edu/athletics/3165_20971.aspx
I feel bad for this kid. In my book, he is grade A LOSER! I mean who dedicates time to do this?!?!!?1
there was no way a high schooler mastered c++ c# java bloomberg etc even with a 5 in AP classes
So in 2009 (when he was a soph in high school) he managed $50,000 of a hedge fund's capital?? Sure sounds legit!
yep it's fake, you don't exist. asked some seniors at exeter. good 1 though.
did you go to exeter?
lol guys
when he said he's been dating the same girl since he was 10 he pmuch admitted to trollin
no need to do any in depth digging
So you are helped on the Obama campaign?
A few points:
Other than that, solid effort. Almost enough to convince me you didn't go to a public school
Haha. Great troll
I almost shat my pants when I saw this resume. Must have taken the poor kid hours to put it together.
I was trying to figure out why this kid had -8 banana points and then I saw the internship with the Obama Campaign, lol.
At least he provided some material for people to beat off too.
Regards
I am appalled and disgusted that so many people actually thought it was real.
lol
I found this extremely entertaining.
Resume is interesting. PM me if looking for megafund interview.
Once i saw managed capital for a Hedge Fund at the age of what 15, 16? How could you think it was real? what HF would allow a CHILD to manage 50k in capital also? Why not black out your name thats where you started failing? Otherwise great troll.....
Maybe its time to get a girlfriend though you have too much time on your hands to come up with something like this.
LOL I have an exam in 3 hours but I can't study because I AM ROFL. fail of the year?
Made me feel unbelievably inferior.
GJDM OP
Well, if what you put on your resume is true, I think you are on track to overtake the ben barnank
YO TROLLS!
ok so now i got some attention ....i've been trying to post my resume up on the forum, but it keeps saying that its "unpublished" ....HELP!
13 AP Exams, yuh right. Nice fake though.
I currently attend the prep school in question and I can tell you this resume is fake.
First, he's in the Phillips Exeter Academy Class of 2011, so that means he's applying for colleges in the class of 2015. Princeton decisions come out on the 30th of March, 2011. So, that means he applied to Princeton EA, but Princeton is not offering EA for the Class of 2015 (they just recently brought it back for the Class of 2016). He doesn't know he's attending Princeton (so that means he's not an Exeter student).
Exeter does not weight GPAs. It is out of an 11 point scale, not a 4.0. Exeter does not rank, they only dole out the names of the top 20% in class (Cum Laude). Also, you don't find out if you're in the top five of your class until graduation (June), where the Cox Medals are awarded to the top 5 students in the class.
Exeter has no National Honors Society, only a Cum Laude and Early Cum Laude (top 5% of class).
There is no Exeter Investment Society.
Exeter does not give out independent study times to work on campaigns, and it wouldn't be for 1.5 months. Most term abroad programs last for one term (3 months).
I know the captains of the lacrosse team and the heads of the debate society (you are not the sole captain!). None of them fit this profile.
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