D1 Athlete vs. Non-athlete w/ Banking Experience
I'm a D1 tennis player at a mid-tier UC and am facing a tough situation.. I've played 2 yrs of college tennis and am currently contemplating whether I should come back for a 3rd year or even complete all 4 years. I am currently working at a boutique investment bank and will continue working through the school year. Consequently, athletics would certainly interfere with my internship and the experience accompanied with it.
I've occupied my previous summers with internships at another investment bank and hedge fund. I am heavily involved in a Presidential role of an organization at my college relevant to finance as well.
In regards to academics, I have a decent GPA (3.75) and am in the honor's program at my school. I've received a few national academic awards for tennis, as well as some athletic and academic conference awards.
I hear it helps a lot to be an athlete in terms of recruiting, which is quite surprising to me, so I would greatly appreciate any advice on the matter.
Thanks for the help
what uc are you at?? try to switch your classes around too. I moved all the classes to the evening since we practice at 7am so that i could do my boutique internship in the fall...Also let the botique know you are an athlete and only can intern about 15-20 hours a week because of that
if your question is about whether a firm would recruit you versus someone who is not an athlete and has banking experience, im not sure who would get hired. in all honesty, i dont think firms really care that you played a sport. they want someone who can contribute to their bottom line, and probably not as much at what kind of athletic skills someone has. if they had an applicant from a BB internship from same school with you, i think they would take them just because of their experience. keep on studying hard and get some better experience, then you should have some good prospects ahead of you
This is complete bull shit. Flip through the resume books at any of bulges and you'll find the average gpa is surprisingly low because there are a HUGE amount of athletes.
Resume to resume, playing a D1 sport would probably be equivalent of having a GPA .2-.3 higher. They definitely take this into account; it's at least as strong of a pull as being a URM.
false they care, a lot
Finish school and make sure you get that degree! A boutique I bank? I'm guessing you go to UCI then since there are like a million boutique advisory firms in Newport Beach and Irvine.
This isn't the 80's anymore where a banker can make it to the top without an undergraduate degree. Seriously, we're talking about a boutique here... don't drop out of school to work for a boutique that is probably not going to launch you anywhere.
I believe he was talking about quitting tennis.
Completely misinterpreted.
Sounds like you should stick with tennis, it will give you a solid EC for when u apply to business school.
Tenis is major plus. Definitely keep it as its the only card you have against every unathletic neerdy ivy / target kid with a high gpa.
Unless this internship is leading to a job...who cares? Sounds like it fills a space on your resume.
do not quit tennis unless you dont like it...you have plenty of time in life to work in finance, not much longer to be a competitive athlete so enjoy it.
You can (and should) make it work.
There are plenty of other athletes that make it work somehow, I'm sure you can manage somehow.
Btw, one of the (multiple) reasons wall at loves athletes is because it's a pretty demanding schedule to balance and to be able to make it all work says something about you.
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