Post Grad Job in IB/PE after having only PE experience

Hello all. I have pretty extensive Private Equity Experience through internships. I'm currently a junior in college and an associate at a family structured PE firm (hence why I am able to be an associate...I went from intern-->associate in 8 months of work) that is unknown to many but I have gotten a lot of good experience from it. I participate in meetings with MDs from BB Investment Banks weekly and have submitted LOIs myself with the MD and VP directly above me. I have traveled to Detroit for a meeting with various executives for a carve-out deal too. This summer, I am going to Graham Partners which is a pretty solid shop where I'll gain full competency in financial modeling so I feel like I'll be a pretty solid candidate for some jobs post-grad. I have a 3.7 GPA from a prestigious school (though not an ivy league) and I am involved with extracurriculars.

Should I continue on the PE track and try to get into a better shop that route? Do I have any good chances getting into high MM investment banks? If not, which banks do I have a good shot to get into?

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Do the WSO resume review for that experience to figure out you're true positioning and where your experience lays out for the story telling. Tough spot undergrad for PE and non-IB internship, you need to kill it in the storytelling early on to make a IB jump, then things get exponentially easy with IB experience that was led by PE. Makes rockstar bankers that get hungry for PE again. 

After that you learn from receptiveness from a few interviews and how long your willing to push. Both are possible, IB sounds more likely for the internship layering. 

 

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