How to get an early start in investment banking

I’m currently a sophomore in high school and I want to know what I can do to gain more knowledge and build a resume in order to get into a target school as well as get offers for internships later down the line.

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You're way too early. Nothing you can do in high school will help. Also you will have plenty of free time in fresh/soph year of college to learn these things

Some tangible things you can do:

1. Work on your resume/involvement to get into a top school
2. Take AP Micro and Macro, these will get you a head start in college
3. Excluding targets, try and look at schools with undergrad finance majors - they will spoonfeed you all of the acounting/finance knowledge which is much easier than self-studying it

 

Agree to some extent - especially if at a target, you are then free to major in basket-weaving. But if you are choosing between equivalent semi-targets, the finance major will help you a lot

My #2 in particular - taking AP micro/macro - clears you to step right into accounting and finance at most schools. It's school dependent and I am obviously older, but I came in with both those credits and was able to take 3 semesters of finance and accounting befoe recruiting even started, ultimately didn't spend more than a day or two reviewing technicals. 

 

You want to best set yourself up? Get into H/S/W. Problem solved. Guarantee you get into a top target, that is the only thing you could do to genuinely help your future rn. Got into Harvard and still have free time? Enjoy your life. You'll reach recruiting hell soon enough and you'll miss the free time you have now. I'm not too far from your situation and wish that,

a) Got into a target

b) Enjoyed my life a little more and just had more fun

 

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