Non Target Italian To IB, (maybe?)

Hello everyone. I’m in my second year (approaching my last year of my bachelor) of a non-target school in Italy; the course is in bank, financial markets e insurance. I have 4.00 GPA and I’m also in an advance school (think Scuola Normale di Pisa, ENS,…) with the same GPA. In this moment I hadn’t done any intership, and my preparation is purely academic. I think to continue my master in the same university for another two year and improve every aspect of intership, networking and maybe do a summer school in tier 1 university as OxfordBridge, Hec, …. During these I would like to achieve an high score on the GMAT and try to apply for LSE msc Finance after. (There the possibility to cover all my experience in LSE e right now I don’t pay any tax or accommodation for my university thank to the advance school). Do you think this plan could work for breaking in to IB? Thank you all

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Thank you for the advice.
I’m not 100% sure to left my current university, in particular the advance school could give me full tuition for free mover programme or fund my future master, and to be honest the environment here is really good, but the career service e the alumni network for IB is awful.
Anyway, I’m going to prepare my gmat in the next weeks for an eventual application.

 

ITA monkey here. Finish your bachelor at your current school and apply to a target master (Bocconi, Luiss or abroad). You should be fine.

 

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