Breaking into IB from REPE sophomore internship

You consider your sophomore internship to be at a "prominent" firm and your school to be one of the "top" of the Ivies. You obviously consider your current situation favorable and just want someone on this site to give you an ego boost.

Here is my two cents for anyone who is actually looking for it and not a pat on the back. Take it with a grain of salt as you should everything else on this site.

Blackstone hires a few undergraduate students for certain groups. But even for someone in a decent position like yourself, assuming you have not omitted a poor GPA or anything of the sort, the answer is not that it will be easy. The firm has in the past few weeks held accelerated process and diversity Superdays for certain groups including RE for the summer of 2020. While at least a few took part with 3.8+ GPAs out of a core school, they were not given this opportunity simply because of a stellar resume or GPA. They too, like anyone from a non-target or anyone with a sub-3.5 GPA, had to network intensely to get plugged in. And so will you.

The BBs are similar. Most typical analysts or incoming SAs networked their asses off regardless of what school or GPA they had going into the recruiting cycle. Most people have the credentials and the ability. This is a social industry, and you are wrong if you believe a strong resume gets you through a Superday if you don't seem like a person that is bearable and pleasant to interact with for multiple hours every day.

At the end of the day, your position can certainly help you get through the door and into a first round without a network. More likely than not, this will not be the case for most firms you would like to work at.