Boutique Experience

Shouldn't expect too much from a small boutique really. Having said that, take what time you can to look over existing models and learn whatever you can.

Everyone gets a hard-on about doing modeling in an internship. In reality, a lot of interns won't do any. I haven't done a lot with it during my current summer gig. Just try and pick through the models and rebuild them like Asatar said.

I'm in the same boat, basically all I did was research. Learned modeling and financial analysis on my own after I would leave for the day. The only thing good about boutique experiences is that you can list it on your resume.

Yeah I can relate too. I haven't done any modeling but I can say I've "assisted" by providing metrics and such. Not that that's difficult. Maybe say something like that? And I think doing comps is pretty useful. Also, you should have access to all their models - right? Just look through them and try to pick at them or whatnot. I spend a lot of time at my internship reading the WSJ, looking through old models, and reading WSO. I guess even if you're not doing heavy finance stuff, you've probably learned a lot more than you would think.

I guess that's one reason NOT to join a boutique.

Will this at least look better than say PWM/ or something similar, which people usually do in their summer before junior year?

I have done a lot of research (one industry primarily), worked a lot on a company deliverable, and done some valuation in the way of Public/Transaction comps.

I don't see what the problem is then. It sounds like you had a good experience. And of course it will look much much better. My freshmen year PWM internship was complete bullshit.

If you're really bored...there's always this:

http://dealbreaker.com/2012/08/food-eating-challenge-a-financial-servic…