is IB a pipe dream for me?

Finance major at a west coast non target. Big state school, T50 overall but complete non target

Have about a third of my degree completed, finance major with a ~ 3.7. Expect it to go up soon, recent grades have been much better than before (20, supposed to be a junior after the summer but was a fuckup and withdrew from all my classes one semester, and didn't do well my freshman year. Fixed that recently) 
Have had one mediocre tech internship, hardly counts tbh

I wasn't really sure what I was doing before, but recently I became more focused on my career and trying to do well in life

Recently I've been interested in IB. I was looking at some semi targets, and transferring into them, I'm somewhat confident that if my grades do improve, and I apply next year, I'll be able to get in (comparing average transfer GPAs and some online anecdotes, I also had a near perfect SAT if that even matters at this point). Something to note is that a lot of these schools are sought after for their business school, while I'd be transferring as an econ major to the liberal arts/equivalent college in most cases, as they're a lot easier to get into

At that point I should have completed around half my degree and be a junior. Will that be enough time to network, try to land internships, etc and get a good IB placement? Am I wasting my time?

I appreciate honesty. If this is genuinely extremely difficult, I will take a different path and look for something else. I understand the market is bad and every job is increasingly competitive every year.

Thanks for any advice

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Just making sure you’re a rising sophomore and would be transferring as a junior? If so, you should get a sense how early the recruiting cycle is now. The most qualified candidates start outreach about now in preparation for junior summer internship recruiting in the (sophomore) winter. Transferring unfortunately probably wouldn’t help for IB unless you want to further extend graduation but in any case you have time to secure an adjacent role like TAS/FDD and try recruiting for full time later.

 
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