Tips on getting to IB internships out of a non target with weak alumni

I go to a top 3 liberal arts college with notoriously weak finance alumni. Have cold emailed almost all of them and nothing has come of it. Any tips on what I can do past this to try and break into IB internships?

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My sister went to swarthmore. If she’d gone into banking, she probably wouldn’t answer your email either.

 

Expand who you reach out to - same club, same hometown, same favorite football team, etc.

 

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