Which internship position looks least bad
Hey guys, I completely struck out of investment bank summer recruiting and and scrambling to find at least something this summer so im at least not sitting around jerking it until school starts
stats: Brown/Cornell current Junior Math and Econ Double Major 3.4 GPA 1500+SAT Front Office Sophomore summer intern at small hedge fund Club Lacrosse Player Founder small political club
ideally I would like to get into bulge bracket investment bank for fulltime. maybe going for masters at LSE if I dont get anything. which of these would look best:
Actuary at fortune 500 health insurance company. I dont even know what they do but it would most likely be a lot of excel work and computer data handling.
Real estate private equity with about 700 mil AUM. the group is about 15 people and I would be in the asset management division which is not as good as acquisitions division. this would not involve finance valuation or probably even much corporate finance at all.
Venture capital startup with very little AUM. This place is a team of about 5 people. I would be working directly with a Harvard/goldman sachs alum doing due diligence on possible acquisitions. a lot of non quant research such as talking to execs at acquisition targets and looking at market trends. would involve a slight amount of traditional investment banking finance including corporate valuation. this would NOT lead to a fulltime position.
fortune 500 insurance company investment branch. I would rotate through business development and their asset management division. would 'produce and analyze investment management reports'
Chicago options market maker. good group but not good enough for me to want to return for FT. trader internship.
bulge bracket asset management.
what do you guys thinks? could you all give me some sort of ranking of maybe the top 3 you think would be best?
thanks so much
I am still a student too, so take that with a grain of salt. #3 just seems like the best option intuitively when considering your goals.
Brown doesn't have GPA. Must be Cornell.
I'd take 6 unless its at Merrill Lynch or Citi or something.
I;m going to advise you to assume that there will not be any BB FT recruiting next year and make your decision based on that. Think about what you would find most interesting to do for ~4 years and go with that. #3 sounds great, but just make sure you're valuing the networking/experience in comparison with the cost of possibly graduating without a FT job.
assume he goes to brown => abuse of pass/fail option and weird grading scheme (failed classes don't show up on transcript? what?) => inflated GPA
3.4 is not inflated. QED.
which masters program in LSE? they have bazillions of em, and not all of them are created equal.
I would take BB AM first, then probably the investment management internship at the large insurance company, and then the VC internship. VC internship sounds like a great experience, but converting that into FT job could be difficult.
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6 then 2/4 tied then 3 (great opportunity if you dont care about FT) then 5 last 1
thats a pretty good gpa for cornell math/econ. I used to go to cornell and fucked myself in a lin alg class.
I'd go with 5 for sure if you want to get into trading.
Probably #6
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