Is 35 too old for full time MBA and post-mba investment banking?
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If you really want to do IB, unless you’re coming in at a very senior level from industry (like a senior executive with a huge Rolodex joining as an MD), the other point of entry is post-MBA associate... so I suppose you’d have to bite the bullet and you’re only getting older.
Age doesn’t really matter, except would you be willing/able to work long hours as an older associate, and do you have other obligations that are more typical with age (e.g. family). I’m not sure, but there could be some subconscious age discrimination during the selection process (“awkwardness” of younger VPs or EDs working with an older associate), but I don’t think it’s a big issue. If you do well you can move up and doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. But the greater hurdle is what others mentioned - getting into a decent MBA program after certain years of experience. There is definitely some age discrimination there (MBA programs have been trending younger), and harder justification for why an mba at age 35. There’s a blog online somewhere by a guy who graduated from Wharton in his mid/late 30s. But I think he went to Google post-mba, and is doing quite well.
Do you actually want to do IB long term or is it a stepping stone for something else like industry?