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Since we've had so many of these lately, I thought we would start a forum dedicated to the success stories of WSO members to serve as a place where people can go to get inspired. What I actually did was get rid of the Entrepreneurial Forum since it had the least # of posts and technically...

Not a BB success story - but i think I made out well: I came from a VERY non-target state school, accepted because I was offered full ride based on SAT scores, seemed a good idea at the time. Always wanted to break into finance (VC in particular) but I had NO IDEA the pedigree problem that...

I just wanted to thank this community for the wealth of free advice that actually does exist on this site. Coming from a non-target and an under-represented US geography, I started at a boutique advisory shop where the experience I was getting was only loosely relevant to what my peers at more name...

Throughout the past few years I've noticed that some of my closest relationships have deteriorated as it became more clear that I was on a fast-track in Finance while others were languishing with bad grades and not-so-prestigious (or non-existent) internships. I knew something to this...

Primates! Today I'm going to tell you a little story. No, it's not the "walk me through your resume" story that must have precisely 3-4 jumps, with a positive and negative at each juncture that logically progresses to a career in IB. This is the story of how I was finally...

I've been lurking for a long time and found this site extremely helpful from a job hunt perspective - not just for ibanking, mbb, etc. All of advice I've read on this site also obviously translates across all industries and I'm very thankful for this community. Hope this can be...

All, I've been reading WSO for quite a long time, but this is my first and perhaps my last serious post about myself. A bit about my background: I am a junior studying finance at a 200% Non-Target university (yes, there are baby sitting positions on my school's career site,...

Never posted before but wanted to thank WSO for all that I've read over the years that helped tremendously in getting me to this point. I knew next to nothing about getting a job at a BB coming from my non-target liberal arts college and WSO filled these gaps where our career center was...

Long time reader of this site. I have just joined because I wanted to post a big thank you to the WSO community. I am a freshman at a non-target in NYC and have just this week begun a paid internship at an Asset-Management firm. I owe much of my success to this site and all of it's advice and...

So I'm new here and spent a good deal of time reading all of the posts from the past few weeks. I thought I would share my story. So I am at a Business school in New England majoring in Computers. No banks recruit at my school with the exception of maybe 1 or 2 smaller ones. We have...

In the spirit of many of these success stories I have been so thoroughly enjoying I thought I’d share my story with the community that helped me achieve my goal. Also, I hope that others out there can learn from my experiences and achieve their own goals. To begin, I am currently a senior at...

I started out going to a non-target state university for finance, graduating with a 3.2 and a commission in the US Army (thanks to ROTC I had a four year scholarship and zero school debt). The next four years I had a reasonably good time in the military, deployed once, and got out as a captain. ...

Been on this site awhile, just an awesome resource as well as M&I. Bought the technical guides from both. Practiced and studied my ass off for interviews. Went through around 40 interviews with 15-20 banks (including most of the BBs and some elite boutiques), got the offer I wanted....