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Im in ibanking... im still at work right now... its 232am... yea...
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thanks for all the advice fellas. i actually know quite a bit about i-banking, and i've been on mergersandinquisitions.com for over a year reading over allof it. i'm not why some people got an idea that my gpa wasn't great, but i actually have a 3.84 right now and i'm running for president of thestudent body this spring in a school of roughly 14,000. also, i only plan on working in i-banking for 2-3 years before going to get my MBA at hopefully a topB-school (Harvard/Wharton) then moving into hedge funds. thanks for the input though everybody
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I can give u a full detail of what it's like OP, just PM me. Long story short, if you arent in a top 10 undergrad business school, dont have above a 3.5GPA, and aren't willing to work 70-100 hours a week, don't even apply... You'll be wasting your time.
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[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)]I sent you a PM and you never got back to me.[/color]
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For real man? my bad, I have been working a lot so I must have not seen it. I'll hit you with a response in a few or tomorrow morning.. sorryabout that.Originally Posted by ProduccionFrescos
[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)]I sent you a PM and you never got back to me.[/color]
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from your sig you're from the west coast? what school did you go to? i know a lot of people who did i-banking or are just starting out on the path, butthey all worked in NY or the area (greenwich etc.)
how is it in the bay? i live in socal and i know MS LA and GS LA have kinda a bad rep but i don't have any firsthand info.
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Joe, I tried to PM you but it said that the user wasnt found. Just hit me up on a real SN or some other username and we can talk. Take it easy.
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all about who u know. get to networking and anything is possible
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Not entirely true. I went to Duke undergrad and we don't have an undergrad business school yet Goldman, JP, Wachovia, Citi, etc recruit us intensely.
The key is to land an internship with one of the big banks the summer going into your sophmore and/or junior year.
Here's the route I took:
-Internship with GS summer going into junior year
-2 year analyst program with GS after graduation
-UConn business school with MBA after 2 years
-Worked for American Capital (PE firm) up until they closed their Boston office last year
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23 dollars an hr doesn't equal out to 100k a year einstein. fail.
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^^^^ it does if youre working 80 hour weeks
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no it doesn't.
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Ricardo, what was the process of landing the GS internship??
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If you don't go to a name IB school and haven't networked enough to get an internship at a big bank I'd suggest looking into IBing at a boutique..Ihad a 3.8 from a top 40 school but it wasn't known on the street so I could only get interviews in the middle/back office positions at a bulge bracketfirm. I enjoy working at a smaller firm...more contact with MDs/clients and more doing/thinking for yourself,, hours are still alot but not as bad...best partis you get to do more stuff on your own rather than having models etc already set up. Only downside is name on your resume doesn't look as good
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I had a fraternity brother who got a job straight out of college with Goldman, because he networked with alumni in the company. If you utilize it, it can dogreat things for you.
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Screw every two years. Stay hungry.
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i think he meant a top 10 econ program or along those lines......i mean aside from penn and cornell i don't think any ivy has an undergradb-school, and neither do many other "target schools."
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damn i didnt know the work hours were that long.
ive been thinking bout writing my actuarial exam after my undergrad, studying statistics/economics at the university of toronto right now
good luck OP
ive been thinking bout writing my actuarial exam after my undergrad, studying statistics/economics at the university of toronto right now
good luck OP
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My brother is graduating in investment banking in April from BYU and the Marriott School of Business. I think he's got a job making $100,000 set up for himin SLC after that.
It's a lot of work, but worth it too.
Connections are super helpful. Internships have helped my brother as well. Be willing to work and sacrifice to be successful, just don't sacrifice theimportant things.
It's a lot of work, but worth it too.
Connections are super helpful. Internships have helped my brother as well. Be willing to work and sacrifice to be successful, just don't sacrifice theimportant things.
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I'm still contemplating whether or not I want to go into Investment Banking. I'm not at an extremely outstanding school (Towson University) butit's not terrible and I'm only here because I couldn't afford the other schools I got into. I also have some connections, with my cousin being arather successful in the Finance world as a VP at the Boston Stock Exchange, a high ranking official at State Street, and one of the heads of a venture capitalfirm and he said if I really want it he'd love to help me out. I just have to decide if I'm willing to spend 80 hours a week of my early 20'sworking.
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what ever ended up happening with you and your career? i am also interested in the investment banking/hedge fund field. please lmk thanks
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Sorry to do this, but I'd like to get into investment banking now, so I figured I'd bump the thread in case have any alums or people currently working in it.
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