Advice? Grad school/career?
I come from an untraditional background. Out of high school I was running my own business and did not attend college right away. I now have 1 communications course left and a math to graduate for next semester and 6 economics courses left to finish double major. SO either graduating may or December of 2016. Gpa 3.5
I have only gotten two investment banking summer internship interviews out of 25+ apps and they were very small no name firms.
My entrepreneurial background is my strong point on resume. Other than that I have finished a communications PR internship with recommendation and am currently interning with a small but reputable commercial real estate firm and I like it a lot and may end up being a broker here once I graduate.
I want to get another internship in over next summer on the investment side of things though.
A big question I have is will having a bottom tier state school basically black list me from finance roles or just make networking crucial? I am looking at doing masters of entrepreneurship from DePaul University once I graduate either full time or part time at night while being a commercial real estate broker. I know a ms of finance or an mba is recommended but entrepreneurship is really where my passion lies even if I don't need the degree, I want to learn more about entrepreneurship and get into the DePaul network. Would a program like this erase my non target undergrad? Would it be worth staying 4 more months at my school to finish the double major in economics, I do enjoy the economics courses so 4 months is not a huge deal for me now that I am done with communications and plan to intern/work the summer.
Also when applying for internships should I even put communications on my resume or just economics for finance roles? The funny thing is even though some call it a "fluff major" my communications course work was actually lots of very in depth research and in many ways was tougher then the econ courses.
My goal is to be selling investment properties earning 200k+ or working in a middle market investment bank midway into my career. Also to later in my career open up my own brokerage/real estate investment. I also intend to start up more small businesses once I graduate.
