Advice on breaking in (target, low-ish GPA)

Hi,

I have a 3.4 from a target school and am looking to get into IB. I have a pretty odd background, having been a home repairman from my early teens through age twenty. I have internship experience in financial law with the government. First-gen college grad. Near-perfect SAT. I'm mainly worried about my GPA since most of the on-campus recruiting posts say they're looking for 3-5 to 3.7+. I'm not particularly interested in bulge bracket, middle market is fine with me. I also will have a humanities degree (although with a STEM concentration) and very little finance background aside from that one internship I mentioned plus good scores on the AP Econ exams. Anyone have advice about how I should go about applying or what I need to do beforehand? 

Thanks!

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Network! Same situation here. Just make it clear to the people you speak with that you’re interested in their MM bank because ______. Typically the safe route is to mention that you’d get greater exposure to senior bankers, leaner deal teams, close-knit culture, etc. It’s especially important that you say explicitly why you’re interested in that particular bank over the typical JPM/MS/GS/etc. You just have to be convincing.

 

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