Entering Sell-Side from Buy Side Experience

This is my first post, but I'm trying to see how f***ed I am for trying to transition over to the sell side. To give background, I am a senior at a semi-target and I have a lowish GPA (3.4 overall) and (3.7 major gpa) since I've been interning at an HF since freshman year. My senior year of HS, I had an accounting internship through my family at a big tech company, but it was otherwise unremarkable. The HF I've been at is very small, and they just don't have the capacity to take me on full-time time but I am on very good terms with them. They were able to get me something at a MM in Philly as an analyst, but I've been in NY for the past 3 years and my parents live in the NYC area. I worked at a student start-up hoping that would take off, but I don't think the leadership team can take it there after sitting in on some meetings. Now I'm trying to jump ship. What do I do? I REALLY don't want to live in philly, but did I dig myself too deep and should I just take the offer?

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