Advice for a High-Schooler?
Hi everybody, I'm currently a senior in high school about to graduate in a month. I have been thinking on this for nearly a year and a half and I'm certain that I would like to work in IB. However, due to slacking In my first two years of high school, I'm walking away with only a 3.3 gpa so I'm going to a complete non-target state school for my first year of college.
So I would like to ask you all for some advice. What can I be doing now and in the future to prepare? I'm considering transferring to a better school after my first year. Any books I can read? Everything you guys can throw at me will help. Thanks!
Don't read anything. Enjoy your college experience.
Try to secure a first year finance internship, maybe at a private wealth management firm. Join your colleges' finance associations and societies. For the most part, just enjoy your time and get good grades.
Don't be one of those anal kids who are so serious that they forget that life is passing em by while they prematurely learn how to do DCF models...
If you really dont care about your social life (not a good idea, IMO), focus on banging out your first 3 semesters and transfer. I got straight A's first 3-4 semesters of college and got accepted from a non target state school to UNC, Cornell, Duke, etc
smoke a shitload of weed now to get over it so you dont post a drug test thread later
This.
Can not stress this enough. Do all your crazy shit before junior year or soph (if you wanna aim big BB).
Then after that pick up nice finance book on whatever you wanna do.Read the WSJ daily.
Definitely read some good books, but don't go overboard. Don't read the dense ones - rather, focus on the books that are actually readable. like One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch (couldn't be easier to read and one of the best investing books of all time), Barbarians at the Gate (longer, but reads like a fiction. talks about leveraged buyouts, investment banking, and the general culture of wall street), and the biography of Warren Buffett by Roger Lowenstein (the newer one, The Snowball, is painful to read, whereas Lowenstein writes coherently and keeps things interesting).
Read those three and PM me for more.
Also, definitely work your ass off to get that 4.0 freshman year so that you can transfer to a target (or even semi-target). Enjoy life later once you have that luxury apartment, working at a BB. You'll still be a young guy in your prime when you're done with your BB analyst stint.
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