First interview coming up, advice on what to brush up on

An alum from my UG is an MD at a boutique IB firm in my area, so I sent him a cold e-mail instead of one of their analysts. Really I just asked if he had 15 minutes to speak with me on the phone, and in his reply he had passed my information along to the head of their internship program, and that I would be hearing from him soon to determine further interest.

I'm only a freshman and I pointed that out in my initial e-mail to him, so I'm not sure how much they will be expecting me to know. I've held a previous IM internship and they know about that as well. Low GPA is my only pitfall right now. 3.0 (Pledgeship last semester...) although my semester GPA is at a 3.6 at the moment after my first round of exams.

I'm assuming that the Sr. Analyst who runs the intern program will probably hold a phone interview with me, so should I just brush up on behavioral questions or maybe look at some technicals?

I may be jumping the gun with assuming I'll get an interview, but I felt it was implied with his response to my email.

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