Has anyone heard of Girls Who Invest? Looks like a great program and was wondering what the acceptance rate looks like. Is it a hard application and does anyone have advice on it? What are they looking for?
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Lmao tf is that
It’s the real deal. The fact you haven’t heard of it is more a reflection of the quality of your firm.
The intensive program is pretty selective - if you make it in, the program involves a several week training program at Wharton and then a ~5 week mini internship at an (often times really good) asset manager. Send lots of girls to mega funds, BB investment management, private credit etc but the roles oftentimes don’t have the option to return junior summer / full time. Very highly regarded to have on your resume and better than just about any other soph summer internship, only exceptions maybe being BB IB or a distressed shop if you want to do RX.
One caveat is that anecdotally have heard that the internships are not very hands on - mostly overviews of the firm, shadowing, talks from leadership, and a small project rather than on the desk work, but sure this varies by program.
Would like to add on too of what you said that from having friends who did it, it definitely varies by program. With that being said I have seen someone intern at a MF that has analyst program and was asked to join for Junior summer but already had an offer so they ended up inviting to recruit ft for them.But it definitely helped that she had an in and people actually liked her.
If you can get in I would definitely do it. For some reason from the sample I met is that they favored women from non-finance majors and/or without extensive internship experience.
P.s she is really smart and very well polished technically. Never seen a liberal art major explain DTA and DTL’s to me like her. So she is the exception of the rule.
Thank you so much for your help!
‘Girls who “invest”.’
Forum: “IB”.
Summarizes their program pretty well
Congrats on Baupost Internship.
Isn't the program a buyside program rather than an IB program?
Had also heard it wasn't hands on at all. Mixed views on it when I was helping out with hiring at a BB.
Not even buy side, the program aims to get girls involved in Asset Management specifically and I doubt the work they give is that hands on
I've heard it's a great program experience for learning about finance.
the misogyny is showing
The OIP GWI program is pretty easy to get and looks somewhat good on your resume. It also helps you with Excel training.
I already submitted my application for GWI 2025- should I have networked for it? Or I can start now?
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