Rare Liquid IB Bootcamp — anyone done it? Worth it vs WSO's $5k program?
Doing a masters at a top London program this year (think Oxford/LBS) and trying to get IB recruiting sorted properly instead of winging it. Been looking at Rare Liquid and noticed they've got 4 different pricing tiers, which I haven't seen broken down much on here.
The bottom tier is $1,000 and seems to cover (which I'm most interested in):
- Technical practice and modelling drills
- Inside look at interview/superday processes at the major banks
- Group calls and chats for tracking progress with other candidates
No 1:1 tutoring at that tier (that's reserved for the higher packages), but it still looks fairly structured, not just a PDF dump and a Slack channel.
Honestly, I don't want to drop $5,000 on the WSO course when this seems to cover the essentials without the extras I'm not sure I'd actually use. Has anyone actually gone through the $1k Rare Liquid tier and can speak to whether the technical content and mock process actually holds up? Also curious if people think the lack of 1:1 time is a dealbreaker for someone who already has some markets/deal exposure, or if the group format is enough at that price point.
Would rather spend money efficiently here than pay for prestige I don't need!
You don’t need any of this. I spent basically $0 and broke in.
And now you have Claude or ChatGPT is $20/mo.
Ask Claude or ChatGPT and search on this website which guides to use to prep for IB (BIWS, 400 Qs etc) - then search and find PDFs of those and study and review. Then ask Claude or ChatGPT to give you a plan to break in.
You don't think it's useful to have insight into internal recruiting processes? I always figured it would be useful to hear from people that work in the banks themselves that can give advice.
Wouldn’t pay $1k to some course for it lmao
You can find everything you need on Google / WSO / AI
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If you're at a top school you can do this yourself + rely on upperclassman and get the job done
Hi,
UK masters are one year so there is no "upperclassman".
Ah sorry - didn't realize it was a masters program. Regardless I don't think spending $5k on a program is worth it when you have AI + lots of information on WSO to leverage
Think this thread is a stealth ad for this shitty course lmao
God forbid I come here with a genuine question? WSO and rare liquid are the main programs for IB rec, didn’t know asking a question is an advertisement
Bro rare liquid is not good
Is there any reason why it’s not? I haven’t seen much about them in the UK market, but they seem pretty strong in U.S
lol @ anyone paying this kind of money for someone credentialized from fucking around in PPT with some light excel template tweaking for 2 years
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