how this guy got in

His father/brother is George Kase...one of the partners. He was also academic all-american and team captain of the football team...wall street loves athletes.

coming from a non target with minimal experience what would his day to day activities be?

1) It looks like he is in more of a support role right now

2) He was a 2 time All American

Working on WS isn't about being the smartest, it is about being connected and playing the game.

I hear he actually caught a 700 lb marlin. A new wallstreet record.

@anthony: Well said. I believe that after a certain point, most people on WS have around the same smarts, its a matter of how well you connect with people, take initiative, and hustle to make it to where you want.

uhh

the reason he got in is 150% the fact that his dad is a senior partner there...nothing to do with anything else

I know this firm. It's his brother not his father. Don't hate it is what it is. I'm sure if you all had brothers that were partners in a PE firm they would hook you up as well if they thought you were capable.

Also, fact is most work in PE or IB isn't that hard and if you are fairly intelligent and have a good business sense you can be successful. Banking doesn't recruit from the top schools and the top grads within those schools because its an intellectually difficult job but rather because they have a finite number of positions do might as well take the most intelligent and hardest working from the bunch. That does not mean that others are not capable for doing the work given the right family connections.

That's nothing...I just got a gig with J.T. Marlin in New Jersey. Supposed to be a real quality place.

@Affirmative Action

I hate to be petty but if you are gonna accuse me of lacking of reading comprehension its time for you to get a lesson in reading between the lines as well as follow on grammatical prose.

When I write, it is what it is, and if you had a brother too hook you up too, it's referencing the fact that yes he did get the job directly because of his family member. Which is the answer to the question, while maybe difficult for some to interpret due to lack of insight, albeit masked in a non direct statement.

The also in my second paragraph indicated a slight change in topic. Its where I went off on an unrelated tangent.

If my post had been an LSAT reading compression question, as that seems to be your cup of tea, you would have fell for the distraction of the second paragraph while reading over the true meaning in the first. Fail.

Ah yes, Marlin Equity... the PE arm of Wall Street powerhouse JT Marlin.

he had a 3.9 GPA, had sick activities. Now a principal. Fucking broad even in a LinkedIn profile picture. A life well lived

The real question is why do you care?