Advice for a Senior undergrad finance major

Hello Everyone and thank you in advance for your help. I am a new member but I have known about WSO for a few years now, anyway I am currently struggling to find any opportunity to jumpstart my career. Since last year I have applied to almost 200 internships/jobs in the finance and hedge fund field hoping to maybe just get lucky with one. I have a 3.7 cumulative GPA and a 3.8 major GPA. I have interned for one small wealth management firm as well as taken a student managed portfolio course in my school. On top of all of that I have started a investment club on my campus and am the CIO. I am currently spending my summer looking for any work and learning Python. I have ran paper trading accounts because I have never been able to have much money saved up to invest actual money. Is there anything that I should improve on or am I just looking to work in the wrong companies. Again thank you all for any responses!

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