Junior in highschool wondering abt s&t
For the past year Ive been looking into S&t as my future career path, sales most likely due to my social ability. My question is about colleges. I live in Texas and I’ve read that A&M, McCombs, and smu are three target schools in Texas. The one that I want to go to the most is A&M. My first question is how hard is it to land a sales job at an investment bank from A&M. My second question is, would attending my local community college for one year then transferring to a target school as a sophomore hurt my chances of getting a sales job? The reason I’d like to attend the community college is because a program at my highschool makes tuition free for two years. Anyways those are my questions and any help would be appreciated.
Genuine advice: take all wso advice with a major grain of salt
It’s definitely possible to land a SA gig if you transfer after one year. Transferring after two years however is a bit trickier given how accelerated recruiting is.
While A&M isn’t bad it’s definitely the one that places the least out of the three. UT>SMU>A&M
All of those schools place decently in Texas. That said, it means every year you maybe get like 2-3 people out of each to do an S&T role. You can also get placement in NY, but it's going to take substantially more work compared to someone at a target or semi-target school. I would also potentially look at Rice and Tulane as regional targets which might have decent FA packages.
I would NOT recommend doing the 2yr associates to bachelors. First off, that's difficult to do seamlessly (not all credits transfer, you'll probably still be behind college classmates who took the same classes at a university level, your social circle will be significantly smaller,..etc). Additionally, the space for finance recruiting is getting tougher and tougher; I think by the time you are recruiting, it's possible that a sophomore internship is a soft necessity and your ability to get that from a big university is going to be a lot easier.
Also, I know people think of sales guys as super social schmoozy folks, but honestly, the thing that most clients want from a sales person is someone who is competent and honest. You don't need to be the world's most social person or talker to be a good salesperson, so I wouldn't pigeonhole myself to that particular role yet. I'm not saying you are, but please keep an open mind!
Texas > A&M in every aspect. School, people, nightlife, location, things to do… you name it.
UT Austin is the only Texas school I've *personally* seen represented in New York S&T/Chicago prop trading in my career, for what it's worth
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