Graduating Soon. Help!

Any advice for students who have lower GPAs that want to get into IB? I am currently a BO intern (Fund Accounting) at a bigger private equity firm and would like to get into the investment side of things. I quickly found out that that is near impossible to do without relevant M&A experience/high GPA from a target school. I have completed the CFA level 1, and I am graduating in a semester. Some advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!

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