Do I Stand A Chance Applying For An IB Summer Analyst Graduate Role/Scheme/Program?

Applied to a couple of BBs for an IB Analyst grad job for 2022. Only applied to 2 so far, been rejected by one - didn't even get to vid interview stage. RIP.

Before I carry on applying to loads and taking on a huge workload, do I stand a chance of breaking in?

Here's a summary of my profile:

  • A levels: Maths, Physics, Chemistry = AAB respectively
  • Doing Economics at a semi-target = grades have consistently been high 2:1s, got 69 in my second year lol

Relevent Experience:

Sell-side:

  • Interning at a boutique IB (bank has no name recognition and its based in Delhi) as a PE Analyst - made insight reports, investment memos to be distributed to institutional investors, analyse pitch-decks of startups and then have meetings with the management team of the startup to query them on their business and then give me recommendation to the IB from this
  • heavily client facing role
  • chair meetings between institutional investors and startups
  • Worked at a Currency brokerage onboarding clients

Buy-side:

  • Research and analyse stocks for a hedge fund that has live positions in them
  • report directly to the CIO

Other stuff:

  • Write my own financial newsletter on the market, stocks, investment philoshopy
  • was a PM manager for the student investment fund

I've not started networking yet, I know this is something I must do to increase my chances of breaking in.

Do be honest with me as I don't want to waste my time, pouring over companies and relevant transactions/deals to get absolutely nowhere and miss out on other my promising opportunities.

Also, any advice will be appreciated.

Cheers guys

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