Going to IU Kelley, am I cooked?
I am a senior in high school attending Kelley as a direct admit in the fall. I’ve heard a lot about the IBW and the sheer difficulty of getting in regardless of how hard you work. As someone with minimal connections in the industry and zero connections at Kelley, where do I begin so that I hit the ground running and maximize my chances at the IBW? I have accumulated a lot of credits in high school that should let me have more flexibility with my schedule freshman year to maximize GPA, so I guess there’s a start.
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You’re cooked dude. If you don’t already have 3-4 IB/PE/AM internships and a large professional network before starting your freshman year of college, you are cooked for getting into the IBW, let alone a SA position.
Current Kelley senior here. To maximize your chance of getting the workshop join the financial services club as soon as you get on campus. They are the gateway to all other clubs which help you make connections. You need at least one really good finance club to be competitive so you should apply to all of them like FIR, PMC, and Knall Cohen. Business frats also are extremely helpful as many IBW members are in them and it helps from a networking standpoint. Also keep GPA high, if you can do 3.8+ thats perfect. I will also add I wasn’t in the workshop or seminar cause i was a dumbass freshman year and landed a pretty good MM role for FT and know of a few others who did as well. Kelley as a school is getting better and thankfully its not workshop or nothing anymore.
I’m at IU and didn’t get into IBS or IBW, and recruiting has been going great. Choosing a school solely for IB is dumb
The Kelley culture is basically just WSO but IRL.
I’ll take that as a good thing for now
You think that's a good thing???
Def not good, cringe asf.
definitely make the most of clubs, but also honestly setup linkedin and try and set up chats with upperclassmen early. Something that helped me with recruiting was having chats with seniors and juniors as a incoming freshman who would end up being on the desk by the time I started recruiting. Just developing your presence and how many ppl yk is honestly the best way outside of learning the techs
“Am I cooked?” Tired of hearing that. Assures me you’re cooked. Sound like an idiot.
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