Freshman GPA - am i screwed?

Went through a pretty bad breakup this semester and a death in the immediate family last year - ill be wrapping up my year at a semitarget(UNC/BC level) with a 3.2 GPA. Is investment banking(MM/BB) out of the question for me at this point? I know this seems like a stupid question but with accelerated timelines I just don't know.

Edit: forgot to mention ill be doing PWM this summer

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If you didn't start prepping for IB when you were coming out of kindergarten you're already screwed. By the time I was leaving elementary I had a full resume outlining 3 cap-raises I had completed to restructure the school playground, sports fields, and gym equipment. Additionally, I had completed over 200 parental leveraged M&A processes throughout the school cafeteria. In high school I began my initial recruiting for Goldman by leveraging my status as captain of the lax team to date a variety girls whose family members were high up in the firm or the financial services industry to secure an internship my freshman summer of college. It's a cut-throat world.

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