Need some solid advice on a gameplan right now. FT recruitment

Guys, I'm hearing about people getting invited to Super-days left and right and getting offers already in the process.

I was an SA in Equities (IPOs/FOs, etc) this summer at a MM, and Equities while it was under IB the group was organized separately and basically didn't give out any offers due to the headcount.

However, I assume I did well and I have the head of Equities as my reference and I took the opportunity to meet 20+ bankers at the bank and met someone from every single group. The ED in charge of recruitment told me to keep in touch and I may or may not be invited to interview for a superday during fall FT recruitment.

However, I e-mailed her about 5 times now and she still hasn't replied to me. In the meantime I been hitting the phones for other banks. I've been targeting the MMs but most of the banks I had leads on like Jefferies and BNP all told me they are only hiring their own interns this year. Other banks I call up refuse to get me in touch or give me the name of the HR person in charge of IBD recruitment.

I got a paying internship at a good FIG boutique in the city I go to college in (No. 1 FIG team for MM specialty finance in No. of deals) and there may be a shot of getting hired here if I do well enough. But this isn't New York and I feel if I start at a Boutique I will never be able to move up to a larger New York Bank.

My questions is: 1.) What should be my game plan? Keep trying to cold-call and reach out to HR departments and send my resume (Keep hitting gate-keepers) ? What else can I do?

2.) How do you cold-call these banks / how do you get the name of the HR person in charge of recruitment?

3.) Is it too late? Are most banks already done and dusted with full-time recruitment? Are most super-days in October or September?

4.) Am I screwed? I understand I'm in a terrible position with most people in a much better position than I am right now. I intern at a FIG team with the other intern from Georgetown with an offer from CS Industrials already. He is set. I'm guessing most people are like that right now.

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