No return for Spring Weeks, what do I do?

As titled. Located in UK and wants to get in investment banking for S&T. Have a spring week at in BB but was unsuccessful in converting into summer offer. Now I have 2 options and wants advice on it:

1. I will apply to summer internship in S&T this year's summer. As simple as that.

2. Same with 1. But should I also apply to some spring week and do a gap year between year 2 and 3. In that year I could do off-cycles in IBD/buyside and explore my options.

Which one gives me better chances? I think option 2. gives me better chances as to break into a BB bank but is it worth it? Also could I apply to both summer internship and spring weeks later at the same firm?

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Congrats on the BB, but sorry to hear that you couldn’t convert.

Was personally in your shoes as well (not S&T though) and would just reapply to summers later this year. For your first year summer maybe try to get a small AM firm/any coding related jobs if you’re trying to break into S&T. Don’t think S&T summers are that easy to find other than the big banks.

I would personally apply for those firms I really want for Summers but leave a few for Spring that I might not be super keen to do. Decide what to do (gap year or not) after getting your offers. Personally for firms I really wanted (BBs) I applied directly for the summer as I’d much rather do a summer than waste a year, and applied for EB springs instead. You could swap if you want to do a gap year. I just found the spring -> summer -> FT way too long to do it again, and just wanted to jump straight to the summers

 

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