BIG 4 to BB?: Can I do it?

Hi all, I am 21 years of age looking for a full time analyst role or internship with a BB bank. I am wondering where I should look in terms of company or just general career advice.

Experience: KPMG Tax Intern (received full time offer but trying to transition into KPMG Advisory) Sales and Analyst Intern at a no name firm. Only skill learned was Bloomberg Terminal.

Education: I go to a semi target in my region and have a 3.61 GPA, 3.83 Major GPA. Am doing a concentration in Finance.

I have one full year of school left and am applying a year out. I don't care if I have to do another internship or if I get a FT role.

What I want: I'm aiming for an analyst role, although NOT necessarily on the IB side so to speak. I have a friend who works at Merill & does 40-50 hour work weeks on the non credit analyst side.

Any and all career advice is welcome.

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Possible?

Search function. As I have mentioned before I know people who have done and they describe it as being pretty frequent out of undergrad. During hard times people go there instead of banking, then when things improve and banks need warm bodies immediately they will pull in laterals from the corporate finance arms of big 4.

 
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