Okay so I took a college offer because everything was literally paid for literally everything only thing is the school is a very non target like 96% acceptance rate, nobody from the school is on the street unless they went to get an mba, Was seeing do I still have a chance to get into AM or IB if I network hard and study for technicals?
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Transferring of course would help, even to a semi-target or well known non-target. If the money is a big factor and you have to stay at your school, it can be done but it's a very tough battle. You'll need freshman and soph internships, potentially off-cycle internships too, and networking your butt off. It's a lot of work but the path is 100% there.
AM is going to be pretty tough - it's a low hours, high paying job... there are so few seats and many of them go to target schools. I'd focus on IB, they are happy to bring on a scrappy non-target who worked their ass off to get there.
okay thank you a lot can I maybe pm you to ask you some advice
wrong approach buddy
Original commenter here - prefer to keep advice public for future people who may find this thread.
Offcycle interns - not any banks you've heard of. Think small, 10 man boutique IB/PE/PWM/really anything in your college town who will let you come in 20 hours a week. Gotta make a list of small shops and see who's willing to let you work for nothing (or $15/hour...).
Networking - there are comprehensive guides on here. sounds like you are a freshman so you should be prioritizing small shops above to get some experience for freshman year or freshman summer. You can start really networking sophomore fall with the big guys, but obviously good to have an internship or two prior to then.
Also didn't get this in my above answer, but technicals take like 2 weeks to learn. Not a big deal. If you are in a finance program, try and take the finance classes as early as possible (for example, take macro and micro at the same time so you can be in finance and accounting for soph fall). Those will teach you a lot of the technicals as school work to save some time.
so what about sales and trading?
I go to a low semi-target/nontarget, depending on how you define it.
My advice is this:
Find the core finance people at your school, there likely will be a club or a program or student fund, something like that. Join whatever that organization is and get to know all the seniors that have placed already and learn from them. If there are people at your school who have landed, then it is possible for you to land as well. This way, you'll learn which banks like your school, you'll build relationships with people that will eventually run recruiting, and you'll have a group of people to push you to mock and help you with learning.
Now, if your school has no such club and no such base of students that have placed then maybe consider transferring. Make sure to do it early or you won't be able to build the relationships necessary to recruit well. I don't know if this is a common thing outside of where I am but I have seen people transfer and defer their start date by a year to do two offcycle internships, allowing them another chance to recruit under their new school's name.
Just throwing thoughts out there, this is what I've observed and might not be applicable to your situation.
yea it’s not seniors at this school that got that role really no alumni at all that work in high finance and no finance clubs maybe I can create one to help out the odds or is that pointless?
No.
Transfer to a semi-target public uni
Does anyone know if LSU is considered a target school in the south? Towards top of class and feel like I know technicals well.
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