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Jtrevor

Mike,

I'm not usually one to be discouraged by a seemingly difficult task or by naysayers. After all, I did set out to transfer from a small community college to an Ivy -- you can bet I had my detractors along the way.

I am posting here because I don't even know where to start. I'm not looking to be spoon fed, but I would be extremely grateful for any advice that could get me on my way.

-Trevor

Read everything on this board, figure out where you sit, and map out your own path. Really the only way to do it.

 

You're asking us how you can sell yourself to an IB. I appreciate that you're putting the key point on the table ie philosophy major is a disability to overcome, but you haven't told us what the positive selling points are, other than you GPA in a largely irrelevant degree at UPenn. That doesn't give us much to work with.

Do you have anything in your story relevant to finance that we can work with?

Those who can, do. Those who can't, post threads about how to do it on WSO.
 

Most firms do on campus recruiting so you can try and shoot for those positions, and since UPenn is a great school you should try and attend a few finance/accounting classes to get familiar with the vocabulary and terms used. I also recommend you download materials of the pirate bay, there is a user mr.finance that has plenty of materials on there.

 

Yes you can. End of story. Good Luck

I used to do Asia-Pacific PE (kind of like FoF). Now I do something else but happy to try and answer questions on that stuff.
 
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