Internship - Feedback on summer internships

Just wanted to get some feedback on internships this upcoming summer. I'm a junior and at an sec school school so I'm already blackballed by being at a non-target. Any ideas/tips/advice on getting a leg up on some of these target school kids would be much appreciated.

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thats a fairly open ended post....and is frequently discussed, did you try searching older posts?

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CNB90, my younger brother is at a non-target but he's interned at several places (Big4, Fortune 50 Corp Finance, PA senator fin advisor) and is a finalist(top 3 individual or team) for almost all case study competitions (EY, KPMG, PwC) and trading competitions(Traders Trophy, other) at his university. He's pushing a little over a 3.5 right now and his resume is pretty good. What do you think he should do/apply to now that is still recruiting?

He was planning on graduating this May and all of a sudden decided to stay an extra semester to take like 7 engineering courses. So he turned down his full-time offers and was considering summer sessions, then changed his mind last minute (last week) to do a summer internship.

Any ideas from anyone would be great.

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well what is it that he wants to do? it honestly seems like hes all over the place(not that this is necessarily bad--he does have a lot of experience). hes interned in accounting/consulting, corpfin, done trading competitions...does he have a particular sector in mind?? seems like hes just interested in literally every sector of finance right now...need to know a little more about his end goal...

 

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