How fratty is IB?
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If you weren’t a GDI I’m sure you’d know
Every banker is a chad that grew up playing lax at middle sex and exclusively dates Barnard chicks that hate capitalism but have MD fathers
Depends on bank, but I would argue it is very minimal now a days.
Is it going to be more male? Yes. Is it going to attract Type A personalities? Yes. Are there going to be people who use drugs? Yes. Does IB have a bunch of young people in it? Yes. Does this make it Fratty? You decide.
That’s why we only use Greek letters in finance, like alpha and vega for example.
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