Target School Grad - Bachelor of Arts & Trying to Break Into Investment Banking

Hello WSO Community,

I recently graduated in May, and after learning more about investment banking, this summer and especially the past few months, I have decided to put all my effort into studying and interviewing this November and possibly next January. I was not a finance or business major, but I do have some entrepreneurial experience. I plan on using that as the basis of a story I am developing to show why I am interested in IB.

If you are a liberal arts major, and you are in finance, what are the steps you took to make yourself an attractive applicant?

Thanks!

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