VISA troubles or bad resume?

I am Canadian rising junior at a NESCAC. I am on an F1 visa, and want to know how much this impacts my ability to land a summer analyst role in 2025. I want to work in the US, preferably NYC but idrc as long as its not socialist Canada. I have been networking since September, and have applied to at least 100 IB jobs at this point, when factoring in multiple locations. I have received 0...0 first round interviews. Even after exhausting entire lists of alums at BBs and networking with whoever I can at other places. (My school has a pretty good population of alums at 2 BBs). My GPA is above 3.7, I play a varsity sport, I am working at a small financial advisory firm this summer (so my resume has some relation to finance on it). I do not understand how after networking and studying efforts I could be in this poor of a situation. I am a straight, white male who unfortunately must click would require sponsorship in the future on apps. Am I missing something? I know kids older than me at my school who followed the same process, but are American and it has worked out. How much does the Visa hurt?

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