Maybe too late/not good enough for IB - What to do next?

I go to a non-target (though a decent amount of kids get offers from BBs) , have a decent GPA - 3.7+ and really want to do banking. I really dropped the ball, mostly with networking and now I'm kind of stuck. At this point idk if it's too late to do IB at least at a MM but it's really hard to find something, especially somewhere that I can network at. I have pretty decent experience when it comes to summer internships - Deloitte and property management - so my resume I don't think is an issue. I wish I had people that could advise me on this and the career center at my school is pretty good, I just don't know that they really understand the IB side of things that well. I'm really at a loss and don't want to just keep aimlessly applying with no hope of getting anywhere. I could hypothetically talk again to old recruiter at Deloitte but I really don't think I want to do consulting. Would really like something that's more finance-y, maybe corporate banking which is also kinda taken up at the BBs already. Any advice on what to do atp? I've definitely made some mistakes but don't want to fall through the cracks. At least want to get something that I can get to a T15 MBA program to and then go from there. 

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