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+83 How does every wannabe banker have an internship at NextGen Growth Partners / Internships to avoid 40 3mo
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+23 Indiana Kelley Incoming Freshman: Tips for this summer and for my four years. 16 3mo
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+16 Target Student (UMich/UVA/Cal) Considering Recruiting For Multiple Cities 17 3mo
+112 Pros & Cons Summary - Post-MBAs in Restructuring (RX) - any regrets? 25 3mo
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+12 CFB and Banking 5 3mo
+26 Ross vs Stern Undergrad 18 3mo
+4 Del 5 3mo
+13 JPMorgan Tax Equity IB Group 16 3mo
+10 Wall Street Undergrad Prestige Ranking/Tierlist 24 3mo
+9 For those in transportation/freight/logistics coverage groups... 4 3mo
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+19 KeyBanc SA 27 56 3mo
+43 My opinion about the rumor "Major Investment Bank go bankruptcy" 38 3mo
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+14 MD compensation 7 3mo
+8 Any opinion on Case Western Reserve's business program? 6 3mo
+108 Pitch me a Stock Interview Question for Investment Banking? 88 3mo
+17 MSF Advice 12 3mo
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+24 Failed SA27 cycle and next steps 12 3mo
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+35 How Is Recruiting for Chicago IB from HYP? 13 4mo
+12 Chicago Roommate 2026 8 4mo
+15 How realistic is full-time IB recruiting senior year after sophomore summer outside IB? 5 4mo
0 Baird Industrials CHI 2 4mo
+678 Banker With Terminal Illness - If I Can Make It So Can You 56 4mo
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+74 How is Northwestern? 30 4mo
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+8 Lehigh CSB vs Colgate vs IU 5 4mo
+26 Is UBS beginning to be a great place to work again? 26 4mo
+17 HS Senior struck out of college decisions, where to go from here? 11 4mo
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+4 Ross (UofM) vs Haas (Berkeley) vs Kenan Flagler (UNC) vs Marshall (USC) vs Mendoza (ND) 12 4mo
+7 Chicago IB 5 4mo
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+12 Citi Industrial Insight? 26 4mo
+53 How are other first-years feeling right now? 43 4mo
+309 A girl on tumblr wrote a guide on targetting different types of bankers for money.... 132 4mo
+1 Fried for IB 2027 SA 1 4mo
+7 Client Analyst at Goldman Sachs, good or bad? 5 4mo
+13 Accepted into a target, confused on what to do now 8 4mo
+100 Georgetown McDonough vs. NYU Stern vs. UMich Ross vs. Northwestern Weinberg 44 4mo
+3 Citi Industrials Vs Citi M&A & Generally Product Vs. Coverage 4 4mo
0 True undergrad investment banking Target School Prestige Tierlist 9 4mo
+10 College offers out: Berkeley vs. USC Marshall vs. WashU Olin 4 4mo
+13 Is a Search Fund Even Enough for Banking Recruiting? 8 4mo
+11 Notre Dame Mendoza vs USC Marshall vs WashU Olin vs UC Berkeley Industrial Engineering & Operations Research 6 4mo
+85 2026 Chicago Rankings 54 4mo
+6 how fucked am i? 6 4mo
+41 Investment Banks in 10 years - Ranking 26 4mo
+4 Rerecruiting with CB offer 2 4mo
+2 DEI Opportunities for incoming freshman at non-target? 1 4mo
0 Some questions from an ambitious dutch student 15 4mo
+29 Investment banking representative and IB trainer 5 4mo
+127 Non-traditional path to RX: 31 YO, military background, ran distressed business 47 4mo
+56 Investment Banking Recruiting Q&A 28 4mo
+18 Is RX the place to be? 12 4mo
+284 The U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund is Paradise 17 4mo
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+6 MM Restructuring IB 9 4mo
0 Driving Safety After IB Workday 7 4mo
+14 Recruiting for Chicago IB from UVA? 4 4mo
+37 Is JEF the cockroach? 13 4mo
+38 Penn State vs Fordham vs Indiana Bloomington 29 4mo
+5 ChatGPT's minimally prompted undergrad target tierlist 1 4mo
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+81 Is early 30s too old to start as a post MBA associate? 76 4mo
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Overall Employee Satisfaction

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Professional Growth Opportunities

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