How would you treat a resume with a freshman year BB FO summer internship?

I got an email from a kid from my school asking to chat on the phone, and he attached his resume as well. One strange thing was that he had a lower tier BB front office summer analyst position for the summer after his freshman year. Now he's an "incoming summer analyst at [Mid Tier BB]."

Do any BB's allow rising sophomores in their summer analyst program by merit only? Or does this sound like a classic case of family connections? Is it possible to get this through just pure networking with alumnI? How would return offers even work for this?

The rest of his resume is otherwise impressive, nothing super outstanding, but nonetheless impressive. Am I reading into this too much?

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He could've started as a freshman this year but told banks he was a sophomore then gotten a diversity program slot or something. Doing so would require a lot of knowledge beforehand to even know that program existed (I'm sure we can all agree that IB wasn't top of our minds during freshman orientation, unless you're some hardo reading WSO from high school). Definitely an interesting case though.

 

Yeah I’ll probably ask him about it. It was Non-NYC, but still a top city (One of SF/London).

Regardless, he’s pretty accomplished in campus extracurriculars not relating to finance but that do demonstrate great people skills.

 

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