Most prestigious finance sophomore internship
What are the best sophomore internships you can do in finance that set you up for junior year summer.
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Know someone who’s going to Apollo her soph summer through GWI lmao
non GWI tho. GWI does crazy buy side shit that no guys can do
not sure then. Know a guy who did gs soph summer and then went to BX for his junior year. Assume it was through div programs tho
The best sophomore programs for the most part were the sophomore SA internships at BBs, but those are gone or going away. GS closed their's recently and BofA just took their last cohort. The only one left is MS, but that is exclusively for diversity. If you're diversity then consider MS sophomore the best thing you can get.
Some great buyside places like Silver Lake have sophomore programs, which are incredible opportunities, but they usually don't give returns. It's more like they have your name at the top of their list for on-cycle if they liked you and you go to a good bank. The advantage of the BB programs was that you could return for junior summer and then full time, so people could effectively get their full-time job as a freshman.
Update: MS cut their program
Is the Silver Lake sophmore process diversity only?
I know a couple non-diveristy kids who are doing / have done it seemingly without nepo but I don't know much about the process beyond that tbh
Does anyone know when the MS Sophomore program opens for applications?
Think they cut the program unfortunately. Offers were out already by this time last year. BofA scrapped their program too
Most prestigious sophomore internships are BB IB, MF Investing Roles (usually diversity), MBB Consulting, and elite hedge funds
Sophomore BB IB programs are largely gone now unfortunately
do they still have sophs for other roles?
I know an incoming SA 25 at Pemira, another at Farallon, and a handful of others at SM HFs. Know of some that did Millennium as well
Smart or Nepo?
Non-diversity + non-nepo, very sharp/hard-working
Farallon is based on a pitch comp, it’s pretty fair actually
MS, Houlihan, Berkshire, Audax, Advent
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William Blair has a sophomore internship program that’s pretty good
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