Senior in college looking for advice
I am just finishing my junior year at Dartmouth. I interned at Robert W. Baird, a leading middle market bank, this past winter in my hometown of Milwaukee, WI. I received a full time offer and have until july, 2008 to accept.
I am not sure what to do because part of me wants to go bigtime and work for a BB. I am an economics major, I play varsity football, am an officer at my fraternity and am attending the Tuck Business School Bridge Program this summer. However, my GPA is only a 3.2.
My question is, should I accept the Baird offer, or decline and go for BB. The timing of the offer expiration makes it tough to pursue other jobs. I am worried if I decline, my GPA will be my downfall in getting into a BB. Let me know what you guys think. Thanks
Do you have any contacts at BBs? If so, communicate your interest clearly, starting now. Follow up, and continue to keep in touch with them between now and FT recruiting.
You should be able to gauge better in July whether your efforts might be fruitful come FT recruiting. If it doesn't sound promising, it might be best to just accept the MM offer, unless you are willing to take a big risk in the fall.
Just my two cents.
with all that has gone on...take your offer and be thankful...it is great exp. Dartmouth, good stats...build your resume with solid exp you know you have...BB are not going anywhere...but they are really looking at the bottom line at this point...and with everything that went on with Bear offers...I would not risk it.
you are in a good position. the career services center at Dartmouth should have some rules about exploding offers; it's worth asking about.
The fact you play varsity football will definitely be helpful. I know plenty of ivy league guys (a lot of MDs) and more specifically Dartmouth guys who are super interested in candidates with a Varsity sport on their resume. Normally, i'd say you have a pretty good chance with FT recruiting, but it's hard to say with this market.
That being said, definitely reach out to any former football players and dartmouth alums. From what I know, Dartmouth seems to have a great alumni network.
in the winter, they want me to accept my offer before the summer interns are finished, so they know what to do with them. The exact date of expiration is june 31st, which is before the corporate recruiting begins here. Also, the BB's haven't yet offered summer interns, so I think they wouldn't be giving any offers. I feel like it would be a pretty big gamble to not accept the Baird offer. Especially with the state of the economy and the extensive lay offs.
what do you mean the "BB's haven't yet offered summer interns". All the BBs are done with summer analyst recruiting..
they wont have offered the summer analysts full time offers by the time my offer expires
Just except the offer at Baird, and if something more lucrative comes along renege on the offer. If there is one thing we can all take away from the current market and seeing what friends have gone through, it's that you have to look after yourself, cus the banks sure as hell wont.
Anyways, worst case scenario for you right now is that you end up working for a decent MM bank. I wish I could say the same thing.
take it man. there's always a chance to move to a BB after a couple years with Baird.
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