Seeking Genuine Advice, Breaking into IB, Post Grad

Seeking advice, not really looking for the “you’re cooked” comments, but some genuine help. Here’s the story. I have 0 prior internships, Finance Major Graduate Semi-Target NYC 3.4 GPA I’m looking to break into finance, but I’m having a lot of trouble. I ultimately want to end up in VC but I think that investment banking is a good area to transition from. With that said, I went to a two-year college that at the time was only online due to Covid, during this time there were no career fairs, or anything of that sort. After that, I transferred to a semi target, and, at the same time, I was running my own businesses. Instead of realizing how important internships were, I thought it would be good to focus on keeping my grades up and focusing on my businesses. It was also a weird transition to be back in school normally. Long story short I only realized how important it was to get an internship in my last semester of college, which I missed that window of opportunity because I didn’t think that I would have time to prepare for all of the technicals by then. I’m now graduated, and have spent the past two months studying for technicals, and behaviorals, I have been reaching out trying to network, sending LinkedIn messages, emails, as much as I can. There are almost no internships offered to post graduates and I seriously am passionate and have the drive to break into investment banking, but I don’t know if what I’m doing is the right thing. WSO and other companies offer programs that are about $8000 that promise you at least one offer or your money back, but I have been told by some of these companies that because I’m not in college, that they will not honor this. I have applied for WSO’s program, and I’m curious to see if I get into that. However, I’m just trying to see what I should do differently. I have been trying to contact more boutique banks, rather than elite Banks obviously. Would appreciate some help. Thanks.

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