What places should I try to apply for as a Sophomore?

I'm a sophomore at a target. I managed to get a few first round interviews through OCR for summer internships, but ended up with nothing. Is it too late to try for Boutique firms in my area? Failing that, what type of places should I try to apply for to get experience for my Junior year?

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I posted about this elsewhere a few days ago, so I'll just copy paste this:

"So when I was a sophomore, I was always unsure exactly what people did in the summers between their sophomore and junior years.

In retrospect, I've realized that there's no standard answer. People literally do completely random things for their sophomore internships. Here's a list of things that people at my school (a semi-target) did in the year before their junior SA stints in banking: worked at a 3-person, no-name boutique investment bank (myself), interned for a Congressman, interned at a Fintech company in Seattle, interned at the New York City budget office, interned at a lower middle-market PE firm in Charlotte, interned at a no-name hedge fund that doesn't even have a website... the list goes on. Most (if not all) of these internships were unpaid.

The main thing you can do at this stage is cast a wide net. To get my internship at the boutique, I cold-emailed nearly 100 firms. I offered to work for free (although you might not want to say this upfront). Out of those 100 firms, I got 3-4 positive responses, and I took the first job that I was offered."

 

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