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Study abroad. It will be a great experience that you can talk about in interviews and will make you look like a more well rounded candidate.
Go abroad. Every kid in the world can get PWM internships from just cold calling offices, even before college. Abroad is a huge differentiator.
Do the PWM internship. You will personally develop a lot more working in a professional work environment (regardless of the work you do). Furthermore, the market is getting tougher and tougher - if you want a good internship next year, you better try to build up your experience this summer. If you don't have an internship now, I don't see how you can effectively position yourself for a covetted internship next year... Lastly, you mentioned that your resume is fairly light right now... If your goal is to establish credibility professionally on your resume, the BB name with four to five bullet points of professional work experience will far far outweigh the one-line location of your study-abroad program.
I actually interview and evaluate resumes. The decision is a simple one for me. In fact if we have this discussion in-person, I would question your commitment for evening considering / thinking about choosing the study-abroad program over the professional internship. I know that I am in the minority here but this a working man / banker's two cents...
Study abroad buddy. You realize how international everything has become and how few Americans have left the country?
Not to mention being a freshman this is your one summer to enjoy yourself you'll get to be a whipping boy soon enough. Plus how will you reminisce on the good times if you never had any; I'd hate to see another quarter life crisis play out, it isn't pretty.
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You have the rest of your life to be responsible. Study abroad, I wish I would've
Study Abroad. Cannot stress this enough. Too many reasons.
Now if this were a BB SA internship as a freshman you somehow landed, yes take that. But for PWM regional, yeah, opt for study abroad.
College senior now, and if I could go back and redo it from your position, I'd do the PWM internship. You can always go abroad sometime during sophomore year or spring semester/quarter junior year or senior year (assuming you've found a job by then).
Granted you could also do a PWM internship during the school year, but if it's unpaid, then I'd rather not have that competing for time with my classes and grades, whereas everyone knows most study abroad classes are jokes.
study abroad and work your ass off for that soph internship next year
go abroad and try to get a bb pwm internship during the fall... or this spring for that matter.
Any chance you could do both, like a month and a half or two months at each? I was able to divide up my summer and do a PWM internship then take classes.
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