Community college and SOphmore summer

Hi everyone,

I am a rising sophomore. Currently I have a internship at Northwestern Mutual. I go to community college and have a 3.4 GPA. The advisors at community are not the best. They actually don’t do anything, we don’t even have an alumni data base. I also have an online internship. The internship basically replaces the trading and business clubs at big schools.

All that being said, I took my current internship because I didn’t have much else lined up. I want to be in investment banking not financial services. can anyone point me in the right direction for my sophomore summer, I saw apps that are currently open. But I want to know if places like Morgan Stanley are a reach and what programs I should be focusing on.

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