Investment Banking Recruiting and Feeling Hopeless
I’m an international student and I’m about to become a senior at NYU and I’m studying math and economics and I have a 3.4 GPA.
This summer (before my senior year) I interned at VC in NY and have gained good experience but nothing on the technical side.
I’m trying to get into investment banking but it just seems like everything is going against me. I feel like I’m late. Being an F-1 Visa international student doesn’t help either. Not having real IB or CorpFin or finance internships doesn’t help either. I feel so stuck and it’s weighing heavily on my mental health and I don’t know what to do other than keep sending emails to people in IB and never getting replied back. Do I still have a shot at getting a full-time position? Should I keep pushing? Should I refocus my time and energy to something else?
I want this so badly. Please help.
KeepRunning I can relate - I had no internship experience at all after college (I majored in Biology at Imperial College in london) and none of the banks here in asia would take me. I went as far as to offer one of the boutiques to be an intern (i was already a full time at PWC then) because I really wanted to get in
It took me 5 years before I landed a stint at CS's FIG team and did that for 2.5 years before moving to growth equity
Keep going because the moment you stop trying, that's when its really over
Best of luck