Emailing Alumni as a Freshman

Hello few people that will actually read this,

I am about to begin my freshman year at a private college that places pretty well in its area for IB in a few weeks. I'm about to begin emailing alumni and current members of  it's "IB placement" club to start building connections and improving my chances of breaking into IB. The questions I have are:

1. Should I only focus alumni that went to a select few shops or should I just try emailing as many alumni as possible?

2. What talking points should I bring up as a freshman with only simple modeling and industry knowledge?

3. Any other advice that you'd want your ignorant 18 year old self to know lol?

I realize I'm not the most knowledgeable on this stuff and it may not end up being the career for me after all, but I at least want to learn some more about this field and keep my options open. Thanks in advance for any help!

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PWM, local boutiques, companies HQ’d in the same city as your college.. it doesn’t matter. I’m just saying that more than likely you’ll have some bad calls in the beginning and I wouldnt want to ruin my schools only relationship at Goldman on my first call

 
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