Advice on my internship situation
Hi, so I go to HYP and am finishing my freshman year with probably a 3.6 GPA. I didn't really do very well in my required language class, and I feel like I could boost my grades some after the first semester of sophomore year. Are sophomore year summer internships usually just based off of freshmen grades?
Anyway, so I really want to get a bulge-bracket or at least middle-market internship in IB after sophomore year, but I'm a it worried with my freshman internship.
Early on in the year, I got an unpaid summer internship in Europe, which paid for my travel, room, and board. However, the internship was involved working as a glorified summer camp counselor, and lasted the entire summer. This sounded like an interesting experience, but I turned the opportunity down because I felt like it didn't add much to my resume, was in an expensive city so I would surely end up losing money going out, and I felt like I could get something a bit better or more relevant.
Later, I landed an internship at an entertainment company on the West Coast, but I turned it down because I wanted something related to finance, and I don't have a license. So I felt I needed to turn this down, since it would be such a logistical struggle with transportation and everything.
I ended up applying to dozens of firms, and ended up mostly having people tell me that they don't offer internships to freshmen, but to reapply later, or having people tell me they'll forward my resume and let me know if anyone needs an intern, and not getting a reply.
I'm now working part-time this summer at a "wealth planner" that also does private wealth management in my hometown. It's a no-name place, and I'm being paid minimum-wage three days a week. I realize that a lot of people don't take these types of internships that seriously, but I figure at least it's related to finance. I'm also taking a summer class, to get a requirement out of the way, and working a part-time job as a salesperson. At this point, I feel like maybe I turned down a good opportunity somewhere along the road, and I'm wondering if getting a solid summer internship is still possible. I'm thinking I probably should have chosen one of the two internship opportunities I got earlier, as I now realize they would have probably been better for my resume, even if just for the "interesting" factor. Any advice WSO? Is a solid sophomore year internship still possible?
tl;dr: i just have a shitty "wealth planning" internship and a summer course for freshman summer, is a solid sophomore internship still possible?
Your a freshman. At a top ivy league school. With good grades. The "shitty" no-name financial advisor internship is better than what 99% of college freshman do after their freshman year. You'll be competitive for top internships for the next two years with your current profile so just relax.
Also some BB and MM banks have sophomore programs. Only boutique banks will take sophomores for summer analyst positions in IB. So you won't be able to get that sophomore BB internship anyway.
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