I'm Cooked... What Do I Do?

Good afternoon fellow monkeys,

I hope all of you are doing well! I am a college senior, and over the summer I completed an S&T internship at top BB (GS/MS). I attend a low-tier Ivy and have a fine (3.8) GPA. I did not receive a return, and haven't landed another offer since. Given how late it is I'm really getting worried....

Should I delay graduation? Go to a masters program? Is there anything I can do at this point?

I'm posting in the IB forum as it is more active than S&T and I'd assume that advice should generally be similar.


Thank you so much!

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I get that this is a tough situation, but at the same time, what have you been doing since last summer? The moment you found out you didn’t get a return offer, you should have been networking aggressively, leveraging your school’s career resources, and exploring every possible opportunity to land a role. If a master’s program was on your radar, you should have decided in the fall to give yourself a shot at re-recruiting for a 2025 summer internship (and even then may have been too late) but now in late January that window is already closed. 

 If I were in your shoes, I’d focus on graduating and securing any FP&A, corporate finance, or banking role and start rebuilding from there. You have an ivy brand and a strong GPA, which still helps and you might be able to lateral into IB in a year or two if the market picks up. The key now is getting experience and positioning yourself for the next 1-2 years IMO unless something happens to fall out in the next 2-3 months before you graduate. Best of luck

 

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