Accepted early to UChicago as a HS senior, advice for IB?

You don’t want to go into IB. You want to go into PE. Get into it out of under grad and thank me 10 years later.

You’re over 5 1/2 years out from hitting the desk. With the rate AI is advancing, I’d be very shocked if the IB analyst recruiting landscape looked the same by then. I’d keep an open mind

2 pieces of advice:

1. take easy easy easy classes your first quarter. Retake things or just stack the deck in your favor. No one cares if you take turbo micro economics, but people do care about your gpa.
2. I have dinged an extremely high number of uchicago applicants because their social skills were horrible. You guys have a reputation for not being able to pick up on social cues and being weird af. The fact that you are posting on WSO in high school tells me you are likely this sort of weird maladjusted person. So work on social skills and interact with other kids. Honestly maybe even read some books on how to be a normal person or likeable.
   
   Finally, you need to realize the macro economic and technological landscape will change while you are in college. Keep an open mind and go where opportunity is and where your interests and skill set aligns. There are many ways to make money if that is your goal. If you are a math wiz, don’t knock going to public markets/ the hedge fund path. Also, if you have social skills, don’t knock consulting over IB—the smartest people I know did consulting not IB. IB ends up with more grinder, grittier kids, but the outcomes have been pretty comparable if we are being honest. If anything, the top consulting crowd seems to be doing better with some of them staying to this day in consulting (now nearly 10 years post graduation)