Cooked for SA 26
Finance is the only fucking thing I care about and I’m stressing the fuck out with networking and technicals actually going fucking insane please help.
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what do you need help with? Hard to provide advice without specific questions being asked.
Dawg what the fuck is a sale lease back. Also I’m not crazy smart so if they ask me mental math questions in interviews I’m most likely fried. Thank you for the response your real for that tho
Best advice I can give is repetition. If sale lease backs are something you struggle with, try to spend 15mins each day reading about them and doing practice questions until you feel rock solid on them. As you're doing the rest of your prep, make note of anything else that is tripping you up and set aside time to focus on your areas of weakness.
When it comes to mental math, once again I think repetition is going to be your best friend. Try to pick up on patterns, especially with accounting questions. If you're studying the guides, don't just use the numbers they give you, try them with different numbers to get comfortable with potentially weird figures that may get thrown your way.
Promise you the mental math isn’t hard. Best thing to do is to start multiplying by 10. For example, if they ask you 58 x 17, do 58 x 10 = 580, 58 x 3 = 174, 580-174=406, and then 580+406=986. Best way to practice is to use https://arithmetic.zetamac.com
bro isn’t recruiting several months away?? u have plenty of time to learn the sale lease back
Ya but I bet all those Ross hardos alr know this shit. I feel like I’m behind man
bro you can learn all this stuff in liek 1 month of locking in. Relax.
Nobody at Ross really starts until late fall at the earliest unless they are really tryhard
when do yall think recruiting will kick off
December this yr earliest.
No chance it goes before Jan, then some kids won’t have fall grades
Bro ur already ahead of so many people. Just review the redbook and memorize the guides, and start networking so that ur resume will be pushed. Unless ur interested in Rx you seem to be on/ahead of track.
If interested in RX, how much earlier do you need to start prep/what extra things should you do other than reading Moyer and HL?
No timeline on how much earlier, but it’s a completley different skill set you need to learn and it is difficult. Moyer and HL case are the absolute bare minimum, given how competitive rx is rn I would say you need to be pretty engrossed in rx news. Do the rx guides, read petition and other news, and practice cases and mocks as much as you can before the recruiting season picks up. Your real life case analysis are also a much more complicated ball game than you would find in m&a. Need to know in more detail, and the deals can get pretty complicated
Bro calm down you sound like a whiner
Sorry I take to WSO to express my insecurities about my technical knowledge. Move on pal
Chill the fuck out you knuckleheaded the school year hasn't even started
Echoing what’s been said above, as long as you have the guides down (M&I 400 and others such as DCF, LBO, etc.), you should be fine in terms of technicals. Additionally, you might consider supplemental materials like Rosenbaum and Pearl, and the Red Book if you’d like more depth.
You're definitely coming across as very anxious, which I sympathize with, as I’m the same way. While it’s great to be that person who can build an LBO model with a full multi-case analysis blindfolded, it’s important to remember that you won’t be asked to do that in interviews. It’s not just about being a technical expert; fit and behavioral aspects are equally important.
Having the mentality that you’re already so far behind is not helpful and will only lead to psyching yourself out, especially during interviews. Focus on what you can do now rather than what you could have done. From the sound of it, you’re already on the right track, as the SA 2026 cycle is still 5-6 months away.
Know that as long as you do everything in your power (networking hard, mastering the guides, and practicing with upperclassmen), you’ll land something. It might not be PJT RSSG or another top group, but it’ll be a position you can leverage to get where you want to be.
Take a deep breath, don’t let your brain psyche you out, and keep pushing.
Good luck!
Thank you man. I am extremely anxious
Can't let it get to you. I'd recommend talking to someone you trust or maybe even get a professional.
Bro all you have to worry about now is networking, chill out and enjoy the summer please
Chill out. It hasn't even started yet and you're talking as if it's may without a single interview. However, I disagree with the comments above saying that recruiting isn't going to officially kick off until January. As someone who just recruited (going to top BB), recruiting will probably be starting in like November this year for SA 26. The timeline moves earlier and earlier and people say oh it wont kick off this early, but it literally always kicks off earlier and you can't do anything about it.
Take a deep breath, send networking emails, crank out the 400 questions and BIWS guides, check trackers like this one from another thread: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15za1luZR08YmmBIFOAk6-GJB3T22StEuiZgFFuJeKW0/edit?gid=0#gid=0 , get mock interviewed, and you're chilling.
no chance in november.
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