Process of getting/finding a summer itnernship in PE?

Freshman year of high school, that is? Because if not, you're a little too old. I hear that nowadays PE shops are looking for talent chiefly among the 8th- and 9th graders.

aim lower. Find an unpaid internship and write a good resume. I doubt you'll get what you want, try Hedge funds, they gobble up free kids to perform due diligence cold calls.

afftar: failed miseribly at sounding funny/amusing/intelligent

sternfox: so you're telling me PE's dont do internships? I may be doing a summer internship this year at an ibank, so I see no point inf going to an HF one for free...

yury: what internship are you going to do as a freshman?

That's what I'm here asking about. I have no idea, so far I just applied to a few ibanks and there's a HF that I may apply to. As for "what" internship I'm going to do, no idea as of now.

" I may be doing a summer internship this year at an ibank, so I see no point inf going to an HF one for free..."

No, you're probably not. Since most I-banking internships go to juniors, and you don't have much business education whatsoever.

HF's are easier internships to get. More so than PE.

So what's the difficulty ladder? 1.Ibanking 2. PE 3. HF

Is there a specific reason it's this way, I'm still unsure of the differences between these groups for the most part.

"Is there a specific reason it's this way, I'm still unsure of the differences between these groups for the most part."

Many Hedgefunds are ultra tiny....a trader, Equity researcher, and a portfolio manager. Three dudes, and maybe four interns to work the phones.

maybe you can consider one of the PE divisions in any BB. sternfox is correct on the HF part, usually set up by some ibanker and his buddies, trying to strike it out on their own, which i totally respect.

Sigh. Yury, you're a fucking freshman. Half of this board is trying to get into PE after 2 years of IB stint, and you're six years behind them. I know exactly ONE kid who is now a freshman (think HYP) who has gotten not even an internship, but a summer one-week long rotational academy type of shit at MS. That's it. How you plan to get into PE being 17 or 18 is beyond my understanding.

I can see only one way: connections. But if that's the case, why do you even ask the question? You either know somebody or not.