No first rounds yet? (SA 2025)

Just want to gauge where everyone else is at in the process right now. Sophmore with a 3.7 at a semitarget, applied to almost every firm on the street -so far have received zero first rounds or responses from any firm. 

Too late? 

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I got two and know I missed on a few at a nontarget… idt it’s too late tho

 

How has been networking for you? I had a few contacts on a phone that agreed to push me through hr, but its been radio silence since. 

 

One I got no networking the other I did with networking but no referral. I still have two referrals I’m waiting on but idt they started the process

 

A lot of Chicago firms are already doing superdays/wrapping them up already. For NY, HL is out (not sure if it's just RX or just M&A), no word from anyone else that I'm aware of.

 

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