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An institution as venerable as The LSE should stand you in good stead! People across the land speak of The LSE as mightier than The Catholic Church, The United States Government, The United Nations, The World Bank, The World Health Organisation, The Oxford, The Cambridge, and The Harvard. Truly, saving humanity from itself. 

More seriously though - Yes LSE is a good school. Given a bad macro environment and analyst slots being given to spring/summer internship people - why not consider B4TAS, Corporate banking, other finance roles in accounting? Perhaps target network with LSE finance professionals, or use Careers services. If all else fails why not consider startup?

 
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I am currently working at a startup crypto exchange as a strategy analyst. I am also applying to corporate banking roles (like the SMBC - Graduate Corporate & Investment Banking Analyst), and I am engaging with LSE finance professionals via LinkedIn, just barely any of them answer back. I also am communicating with someone from Dartmouth Partners, but these services feel quite shaky as you get ghosted quite often. I don’t seem to get invited to first round interviews for some reason.

Cast a super super wide net and focus on open grad roles

 
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