GS TMT & MS M&A: Mortals allowed?

It seems there is a lot of reverence on the street for GS TMT and MS M&A teams. These groups seem even more selective than GS/MS as a whole. So given that, how does one even begin to try to get into these specific groups? Is it based on relationships?

 
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While it's great that all the college kids here wank off to GS TMT/MS M&A/etc., you do have to consider that you have to live it for (at least) two years. I'm not going to search for the thread, but someone described GS TMT as drinking from a firehose and then wallowing in the pool of water from that hose and drinking that up too. Combine that with what I've heard from people (secondhand albeit), and it's something that you have to make a really reasoned decision as to whether and how badly you would want to be in such a group.

 

Not every group in GS or MS is good. If you guys knew anything you'd know that many groups within GS are actually mediocre. And TMT is more selective because usually the cream of the crop get placed in there. Kinda like going to Berkeley and then applying to Haas. You're taking a top percent of the already accepted class.

 

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