Lmao this was a brutal thread. Cheers to my younger self for being such a goon. To anyone who’s here now, know that recruiting is so early that sophomore summer isn’t even that important. Cheers!
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I can hear you in a “bro” voice as I read this
you haven't seen anything until you interact with a NESCAC lax team.
lmfao or field hockey?
Look at smaller regional firms. That’s the easiest to do as a sophomore but will give you the experience to land a bigger Junior summer internship.
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Interested to hear why Colby is a semi-target and what other NESCAC schools are considered to be Targets/Semi-targets. My understanding was only Amherst and Williams were semi-targets.
It's not
Citi, MS, BofA, GS recruiting + alumni teams here in the last two days virtually + in person. Definitely not getting same level of pull as top two but still gets action as far as I cant tell.
I would prolly say Colby is on the bottom third of nescacs that get OCR but still get in nonetheless. IMO would consider will and amherst targets, bowdoin, midd, ham semi targets, the rest are a grey area
Translation: By networking do you mean you came here to flex that a family friend got you a freshman summer HF internship?
More of a question as to where to focus next.... I'm sure you really made it out of the trenches if you're on a banking forum eh?
H Factor on this kid is real.
H factor to plug and chug excel is unreal on this one.
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