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I would like to know why you would like to be an investment banker or financial annalist.

 

1) You should be banned just so you're forced to go outside

2) Local PWM office is your best bet

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford
 

Did you honestly upload a picture of yourself onto your WSO account? You must be a troll...

Also: only in Hell does working pro bono at a Wall Street firm count as 'volunteering'; that term's usually reserved for doing things of altruistic benefit to society.

And the horse you rode in on
 

I would first focus on getting admitted to a good college.

"I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."
 

The best way to get into ibanking is to go to a target school. The best way to go to a target school is to get good grades. No need to intern now. Wait till you're in college.

Get strait A's and above a 2300 on your SAT. That's what it takes to get into ibanking and that is what a high school student should focus on.

 

Disagree with the others. If you can pull off a decent internship in PWM over the summer, it will make getting an internship after freshman year infinitely easier, and so on. Go for it.

 

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