Princeton Freshman Looking for Experience

Hello WSO! I'm attending Princeton University in the fall and am likely to major in Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) or minor in finance with a major in CS. I was the president of the investment/finance club at my high school in NYC and have had over a year of trading stocks/options with my own money. I'm well versed with the financial markets but have no experience at a real firm. As a high school senior, I have my summer free to try and get an internship, but really don't know where to start. I have a great high school GPA along with standardized test scores, so I think age is the only determining factor for many potential internships. I hope to go into IB or similar.

I looked into a JPM program but it only accepted students who were going to school in the NYC. I picked Princeton over Stern, and I didn't think it would be worth changing that decision for one internship (even though both schools are great). That being said, this is my first post on this site, and I'm really looking forward to interacting with this community!

 

If you really have nothing else to do (I always fully support getting off the fkin computer and go drinking), then try for a local PWM shop (like UBS, ML, family shop). Have any family friends in the industry? Talk to them and say you'd love to help out for the summer to learn.

Just curious, but why you choosing IB before you even get to college?

 
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Go drink until you blackout. Makeout with a chick and pass out squeezing her left boob. Go to a music festival and pass out before your favorite band even comes on stage. Sneak into a bar in NYC and make out with a 27 year old 5/10 desperate for some loving. Drink so much you pee your pants and ruin your cell phone. Eat a couple mushrooms and pretend your darth vator.

Do something cool so that in 3 years when your interning at a BB and your out with the analysts/associates you can prove your not a gigantic nerd.

 

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