Recruiting - Need Advice

Creating a separate account for this because it's honestly humiliating.

I'm currently a sophomore at a low-tier Ivy-league school (Dartmouth/Cornell) and I'm feeling very demoralized with the onset of recruiting. Two years ago, it was my dream to attend the school I'm currently at, but I realized it was a double-edged sword as soon as I got here because every candidate from my school is decently smart and I was always afraid of falling behind.

I didn't grow up w/ money, and never had family/friends work in finance. Naturally, went into college with no prior experience and some pretty rudimentary knowledge. I managed to get my shit together and secure a position in finance clubs and also some other leadership stuff, but got so worked up in performing in school I basically completely forgot networking and expanding my professional resume and am convinced this will really hold me back.

I took an unpaid internship freshman summer at a pretty shit firm (no-name boutique/search-fund) and whatever other fake experience I could get my hands on (BS diversity events), but I'm failing in every metric for what makes a good candidate. For some reason, probably out of fear of failure, I haven't networked well or put myself out there enough, and even though I've accomplished a lot in my time at college I'm still falling behind professionally.

I already sent out applications with my bullshit experiences on my resume and judging from what WSO typically says about these kinds of "professional" experiences, I'm genuinely starting to believe it would've been best to omit these and just have club/leadership experiences fill the resume. One Google search and you'd see WSO forums talking shit about a firm I interned for so I'm very concerned about how this will be perceived. If 2025 SA recruiting goes as well as it did for 2024 summer, I'm screwed.

Recruiting also opened up fairly early, so it's been a bit of a struggle to get referrals in time. For context, I'm 3.8+ and diversity, although I wouldn't say my school is a top target in terms of placement. Like I said, I have two very weak professional experiences and they weren't really what you'd call internships, especially compared to most of my peers.

Just need some guidance or advice on what to do. I'm only starting to organize my life together and feel ashamed I've neglected so many applications I could've filled out or people I could've reached out to, but just didn't have the energy or the structure to do so.