What do 2nd years do after they are done?

Yo guys, I'm currently a senior and all of a sudden I'm wondering if I should switch over to medicine.

Do you guys know what analysts do after they are done with their second year? I know everyone looks for a PE / Hedge fund sort of job, but is that what everyone does? Does anyone out there with experience have stories of 2nd years leaving finance?

I'm wondering whether I should take some premed courses and switch careers.

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You're going to be in school for the next 2-3 years if you plan on taking (and doing well enough to get into med school in) all the pre-med courses.

and you're going to have a pretty miserable life if you base your career decisions on "best that I can get" mentality...

I don't know too many second years, but the handful that I've known are all doing A2A or PE...

 

"what I want to do"

if you are really interested in finance, but know that you won't get a BB gig, I would look at small banks over top med schools...

if you're interested in medicine, but know that you can't get into Hopkins, I would look at unknown med schools versus Goldman Sachs...

not really apples-to-apples, but you get my point.

I wouldn't go to med school after not landing in banking simply b/c medicine is in the same prestige cache as banking...

 

isn't one of the main appeals of working in finance that after your 2-3 yrs as an analyst, you can do pretty much whatever you want because you've shown that (a) you will work your ass of, and (b) you're reasonably smart? not that becoming a senior guy at my bb isn't appealing to me....

 

Kids at our office are headed off mostly to PE or corporate development. Maybe 2/10 stick around for 3rd year/promote to associate. The rest either go PE/HF/CorpDev or leave finance altogether it seems.

 

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