Stuck between 2 internship offers

I'm a Junior at a respectable non-target state school. I have a 4.0 with only 1 year til I graduate but little to no experience. I came into college not knowing what I wanted to do, and was well aware that I had 0 chance of getting an IBinternship this summer when I declared a Finance major. With that said, I have 2 offers right now one both of which I have 5 days from now to respond. One is an Operations Summer Analyst role at a Bulge Bracket (30 mins outside of NYCwhich is mostly back/middle office roles), the other is a finance internship at an F500 in the consumer goods (think hygiene/health) industry. I've done research and nearly all the interns land a position within their FLDP, which I heard isn't bad for MBA admissions. My goal down the road is to get an MBA from a T8 and to get into IB. I know everything is what you make of it, but I'm here looking for advice. I know Ops is like the definition of back office, but I've heard an Ops summer analyst role isn't as bad as Ops full time and that the experience is more comparable to what some front office interns do. Ops intern is offering $38 an hour, the F500 is offering $25. I'm looking for advice, if my goal down the road is to get an MBA and break into IB. The comp difference doesn't mean much to me, I want what's best for the future.

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Take this with a grain of salt. Imo as someone that is also Junior in college I would go with the operations internship. I think JP Morgan, Goldman, Barclays even would better on your resume then finance intern at Merck. The name brand of those BB places has good pull and also if operations intern turns into fulltime at least you have people at your company you could network with that are in IB vs having to network from J&J or Merck into finance. Also I know someone who is older than me who did middle office job at Barclays got his/her CFA and was able lateral into Barclays IB, that is also a possibility for some BBs not all.

 

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