Freshman IB offer

Suppose a freshman does an analyst internship that’s ACTUAL investment banking. How much of a leg up is this for sophomore year recruiting. Everyone says freshman year internships don’t matter, but think about this. Before sophomore year recruiting, there are 2 WHOLE summers to stack up VC, PE, HF, and huge AUM AM over ur HS senior summer and ur freshman summer. I would imagine having some lofty accomplishments to back up your mastery of technicals and behaviorals would come clutch. If I saw a non target with a freshman IB gig vs some target doing nothings, it’s the first one no brainer. While you’re at it, I be super scoring ACT to a 36, yes not that hard to do if your at the 34-35 range will impress a lot of HR too. I feel like this whole recruitment process theoretically could be kicked back 2 years, where your freshman and hs senior summers pad ur resume for eventually when you recruit.

Those are just my thoughts tho. Obviously don’t be a hardo and HAVE FUN. This is just something I was curious about.

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helps if you get quality and/or live deal reps and come off super polished as a result. definitely raises the bar in interviews but gives you more control/less variability to crush it. Also typically means you recruit earlier than most others and get some special treatment. Few of my friends and i did “real”/BB/UMM PE internships freshman year. None of us landed in places that you couldn’t get without doing that though…all ended up at GS/MS/EVR (didn’t actively recruit for PE though did get inbounds)

 

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