Singapore or HK?

Hi peeps~ I'm sincerely looking for some advice ~ I'm from national university of singapore, just finish my second year. Next
summer I'm trying to look for a Bulge Bracket FO summer intern.
I am thinking abt applying to BB in SG or HK. As My school is only
reputable in Asia and I know lots of Ivy/Oxford/Cambridge people will
flood into HK for summer internship. However the FO in SG is small and the quota is very limited and I suppose in HK there might be more quota to compete for. I hope to get some advice from you guys~ Should I stick with SG or should I try HK? Thank you very much for your opinions!
(Here is my basic background: GPA around 3.7, four internships, one in a local engineering(very irrelevant to IB) one in a big telecom doing marketing, one in a famous MNC doing supply chain and one off-cycle internship in a Bulge Bracket SG office doing post-trading operations)

 

How good is your mandarin? In HK for IBD stuff, you pretty much need almost native level mandarin to work on deals(not all but many). Not to mention many mainland students already have connections in China which is why they are massively preferred. Then there's oxbridge/ivy league etc competition as well.

IMO, SG has a better chance but I've seen NUS make it in HK. Just not many.

 
boredviewer:

How good is your mandarin? In HK for IBD stuff, you pretty much need almost native level mandarin to work on deals(not all but many). Not to mention many mainland students already have connections in China which is why they are massively preferred. Then there's oxbridge/ivy league etc competition as well.

IMO, SG has a better chance but I've seen NUS make it in HK. Just not many.

Thanks a lot! Mandarin is my mother tongue. I'll try to improve my oral English as much as possible I think.

 
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