Just curious as I know there are way less spots for sophomores compared to freshman. Would it make sense to reach out to exec board members before the year starts? Just wanted to maximize my opportunities
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honestly depends where. If it’s somewhere that is more “transfer friendly” (NU, lately UChicago, etc), then it can be a bit more straightforward to crack clubs and recruiting but if it’s like Penn could be tough
What about a lower Ivy (think Columbia, Brown, Cornell)
good clubs are worth taking seriously here. it's basically the first look you get at how recruiting works at your new school, and which banks and alumni pick up the phone when a student reaches out.
don't cold email the exec boards this summer. a sophomore transfer emailing in July usually just gets passed around the group chat as the overeager one. wait until the first week of classes to introduce yourself instead.
spend the summer lining up warm intros. get into whatever transfer GroupMe or Discord exists for your school if you're not in one already, and message a few analysts on LinkedIn who transferred in from a background like yours. ask them straight up which two clubs carry real weight with the banks people want, and who on the inside runs mock interviews or looks at resumes for members, since that's usually worth more than anything posted publicly.
once you're in front of them, the application is mostly mechanics. sophomore interviews tend to run as a lighter version of the first round, so go in with a stock pitch built and your accounting and valuation basics solid. a lot of clubs also run a smaller spring cycle, so getting dinged in the fall isn't the end of the road.
don't undersell the semi-target year either. whatever pitches or models you built there are the edge you have over people who transferred straight from a target and never had to do that work. bring that up directly in interviews.
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given the hilariously accelerated timelines being discussed (some banks are reportedly considering fall superdays, which could mean applications opening in late September or early October) I would not spend much time on club applications.
The higher-ROI use of your time would be practicing behaviorals and technicals now, then beginning to network once August 1 hits. Going through timely club interviews and training that will likely lag behind where you need to be technically does not make much sense.
No shot, right?I feel like recruiting each years moves up by a few weeks or a month on average. I would’ve figured maybe late October or November, but superdays happening in September or October?!? God forbid this happens, at this rate we’re gonna be recruiting out of fucking high school
i said fall superdays, so that could mean late fall or december. idk it's all here say. doesn't hurt to be prepared, however.
liontree, p72, houston, and rx ran similar time lines last year
Yeah I remeber HL RX recruiting very early at my school last year. Any reason on why Houston recruits early?
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