Advice for a Nervous and Naive High School Senior
I'm a graduating senior this year who has a vested interest in finance and would like to be able to build my early career in IB and the buy side (as all naive kids do) but despite having top 10% grades and being an IB diploma candidate with an estimated score of around 36, I probably won't be able to get into any of the schools I applied to (NYU, Rice, UMich, BC all for Econ) so I felt it a "good" decision to come here to ask for some advice.
Firstly, is it feasible to be able to transfer into at least a semi-target like BC or Rice or even better schools like NYU or UPenn after one year of college if I really bunker down to try to improve my resume as much as possible (I have very few extracurriculars besides; only some volunteering, model un in senior year, and personal study of Japanese) or would it be unlikely to be able to get into any target schools without a very strong high school resume to back me up (for either econ or business)?
If I can't get into a target school (or even if I do) what are some things I could do either on or off campus that would give me good experience and look good on a resume? Do most people only do internships during summer or do many try to fit them in during the school year? I know there are many middle market and normal boutique banks that would be comparably easy to get a job at but my naivety only allows me to aim for the very top (in all seriousness I'd like to aim as high as possible but would be fine if I don't get into like the big 3 or the elite boutiques since I only want to do IB for a few years anyways). I've heard that the importance of your internships generally increases the higher your grade is since the elite banks offer a very small amount of positions to interns in their final year, so I'd really like to be able to land an internship in my junior summer (or during senior year if they offer any of those, idk)
If I don't get into any of the schools I applied to I'll either go to my state school (University of Kansas lol so not a target) or I might attend a university in Japan for a year since it's been a dream of mine to go there for a while (and it's so much cheaper than here but I refuse to even think about how bad the work-life balance must be for finance in Japan when considering how many hours bankers work a week even in the US) and am curious which of these would be better for a. transferring to a semi/target (top 20ish programs) and b. just recruiting for us banking in general (top tier) (obviously I know they are both low but I'm curious if it would be better to go to a highly-ranked school in Japan which I might be able to get into or my state school in the US)
If anyone could give me some advice and/or defer me to a post from someone with similar circumstances (really just anyone who doesn't think they can get into a target out of senior year) with good advice I would greatly appreciate it. Feel free to ask for more specific details if anything is unclear.
You have a lot of time. Based on 4 paragraphs there is 100% chance you will be successful in whatever you said if you are writing this in hs. Smoke a blunt ruin your life come back again then let’s talk business.
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I think you'll be good. Don't completely slack off but if it makes you feel any better, I go to a semi-target/target school, but was on the pre-health track until this year (senior year). I had interned for a startup my sophomore summer, but that was my only experience remotely related to IB. I worked my ass off for interviews, spent months prepping and networking (had been prepping since May of Junior year - which is still very late to the game). Managed to get a role at a mm bank when most places were not really hiring for ft (mostly just stuck with their summer analysts who got return offers).
You are thinking very ahead of the game. I think you will be more than fine
From your experience is there any specific action you'd recommend in terms of getting ahead of the curve in any way possible?
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