need some advice - liberal arts school

go to a liberal arts school east coast, very top of my class, in all of the most competitive clubs on campus. school just doesn't have deep IB alumni penetration. maybe ~5+ people at any given EB, BBs have more but so few in true IB roles so it's hard to find people who actually stayed

done ~20 networking calls since may but not all IB, mix of finance broadly. starting to hit a wall on warm connections and expect the cold email response rate to continue dropping

the other wrinkle: my school has a wall st. feeder program and a student fund, both pretty competitive, but they're only a few years old. so when i talk to a alumni that graduated before 2020 they have zero context for what those programs signal. feels like credentials w/o a translation layer lol

questions for anyone who's been here:

how do you rebuild pipeline after warm traction dries upany merit to pulling back and ramping up again in july/aug when SA recruiting gets closerhow do you frame newer school programs to alumni who predate them

not trying to shortcut anything just want to make sure i'm not leaving my early advantage on the table

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