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Edit your post and resume to remove personal info (named specific school).
cut High School unless it is private or otherwise noteworthy. If you keep, consider rounding GPA to 4.0. Up to you to keep SAT. (note to others - only perfect SAT/ACTs scores are worth posting).
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replace "Chinese" to "Mandarin" (or w/e variant you speak)
Looks really good, especially for a freshman. Stay HUMBLE. Tell each person with whom you network/interview that you are interested only in that job/their industry. Tell them you are interested in grad school only if you can't break in after undergrad. Tell them your startup is just a side project to gain business experience and you are excited to work in a more formal setting and learn from experienced professionals.
Formal recruiting channels are largely closed to freshmen and sophomores, you need to network for a position. Hopefully you can afford to take an unpaid internship. Talk to professors and upperclassmen for leads on jobs. Network w/ anyone with whom you have something in common (school and language are prob your best bets). Get premium sub to linkedin.
You are way ahead of most of your peers, even at the elite school you attend.
Thank you so much for your advice,
I have a return offer at the place I interned last summer, but the work I was doing was pretty simple and the expectations weren't really high (at that Asset Management firm in general, people seemed very relaxed and worked really short hours with really long breaks).
I've applied to a couple top tier BB's and a couple of hyper competitive trading / quant desks, but I have been having some trouble getting interviews reliably (1 out of 4) (I was told a couple of times to re-apply next year as their programs are pretty much closed to 2nd years).
Do you have any suggestions as to what kinds of banks / trading desks I should try to apply for (internships)?
oops I posted too many times
oops I posted too many times
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