I have a deep love for finance and I’m looking forward to a career in IB. Was wondering what if anything i could do at this point to maximize my chances of actually landing a job later on apart from getting good grades. I’m already taking small courses on CO finance.
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Get off Wall St. Oasis until you're a college freshman or at the very minimum a high school senior deciding on where to go for college.
Get into as good a college as you can but also recognize that you don't need to go to Harvard/Yale/Princeton/Stanford/MIT to get into a top investment bank (although it certainly helps).
Being on this site so early is just a waste of time for you. You aren't going to maximize your chances of getting a job in banking by doing anything in high school in terms of finance knowledge or experience. Get good grades, get a good SAT score, and get into a good college. That's it in regards to banking, which shouldn't even be on your mind until years later
Thanks for the answer, will do.
Good for you for knowing what you want to do. Apart from getting good grades and getting into a good college, my advice would be to get off this forum and go do literally anything else for the next 4 years (at minimum)
Thanks, will do.
If you are 14 you do not have a “deep love for finance and passion for IB”. Something that is often overlooked on this forum is being a likable and normal person - if I interviewed a kid who said he wanted to be an investment banker since he was a FRESHMAN IN HIGHSCHOOL I am going to assume he is the biggest try hard known to man and not someone I want to spend 12 hours a day with. Bro go do normal 14 year old stuff - play sports, video games with your boys, try to get a girl to hook up with you - anything but finance.
Damn alright😂. I basically can’t move much for now as i have a serious case of jumper’s knee from bball but I can definitely make some effort on the girl part haha. Genuinely though why is being a try hard a bad thing ?
Being a try hard is not a bad thing, coming off as one is
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