ft recruiting timeline

Hi, currently a junior at a west coast target studying STEM + business/econ. I accepted an SA EB offer in a bay area tech group which is good but not great. 

Anyway, I know I don't want to return to that group FT, and I do want to definitely move to NY, so i will probably FT recruit.

For FT recruiting, I want to make sure I'm on top of everything to do the best I can. I'm not in any clubs or anything so don't really have a professional network outside of a few friends in banking (all west coast though). How does the FT process work and when should I get started? What's the timeline?

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