high schooler interning at goldman sachs?
do high school seniors actually get offers from McKinsey or Goldman Sachs? this is from a couple years back but someone i graduated high school with said he’d be taking a year off before college to intern for both. 6 month stint at one and 6 months at the other.
a lot of my finance friends ran the recruiting gauntlet last semester with no luck despite being at a target, so this got me wondering…was this kid just straight up lying to everyone? obviously all signs point to yes but at the same time i can’t imagine being that brazen about it. one of the first search results when you look him up is the school paper interviewing him about his post-high school plans but his linkedin profile conveniently mentions neither of these gigs. does seem like he took a gap year though.
thoughts?
HA, that made me lol. Maybe I did high school wrong, but I had no fucking clue what McKinsey was back then.
either lying, but more likely that daddy made a few calls
He had to have had some connections, or he just wants everyone to think he's awesome.
My friend interned at GS while she was in HS. It wasn't in the US though. She worked primarily in BO. Her parents have connections to some MD there.
Kids are weird these days. I'd brag about my the amount of girls I'd hooked up with in HS; not interning at a bank...
I wish I had a SB to give you but I am out of them
Most kids these days do their GS/McKinsey time between elementary and middle school. After graduating high school, they take a year off to work in PE or a hedge fund.
For a real leg up, ask your parents to send you to company daycare before you hit kindergarten. From there you can hit Special Situations before you're out of diapers
This can happen. Unfortunately for the efficient markets mentality of wall street, everything occurs by pure science. I had a job that was 'prestigious' by the time I graduated from HS. It was through a connection that came from a buddy of mine.
Strange things can happen..
I've never met or heard of a high school intern in my few years at a BB.
i actually have: was through an NYC outreach program to low-income neighborhoods (so 100% diversity-type program). The interns would rotate through various MO roles for a few months. Pretty cool idea
I think JPM has something similar. Called Smart Start. It is a diversity program for kids from low income backgrounds. I think they pick like 10 kids a year. They also get a $10,000 college scholarship and guaranteed internships with JPM all 4 years. My friend is in Smart Start and she said many of them start in the BO and then transition to FO in college.
well, i spent some time looking into it and it gets stranger. his school’s directory doesn’t have him listed and there’s no indication he actually attends any college. no signs of having interned at McKinsey or front office at goldman either. i remember this guy was one of the types who really tried to craft a certain narrative on social media so it’s surprising to see he hasn’t really posted anything since we graduated other than the occasional vague status update.
i didn’t know the dude well but he seemed all right. i took what he said at face value since there didn’t seem like there’d be a reason for him to lie about anything, much less everything.
The only high school interns I met were either through a diversity recruiting scheme (Prep for Prep, Smart Start, etc.) or the children of senior employees or high-profile clients.
I've seen about half a dozen. Each one was a minority student or a complete nepotism hire. They didn't get meaningful work experience, it was a ton of shadowing and "sit with so-and-so today", but you can bet they sold the shit out of it on their resume. Such is life.
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