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IB

Incoming Analyst in IB - Cov

8mo

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At McCombs and can chime in -

A few of those orgs recruit in the spring, so try again then for sure.

Keep your GPA up - Necessary for recruiting and then transferring into BHP

Internships help. A search fund this winter or spring is pretty straight l forward to get via searchfunder dot com and quickly adds an unpaid finance internship under your belt. After that, try for a regional boutique IB internship (EverCap/ Fortitude in Austin come to mind; Dallas folks look at Exit Partners).

A high GPA and an IB internship usually gets you a good look from IBA/ WSFM sophomore fall - would join the analyst group at USIT and not just be a general member who casually attends meetings here and there. It’ll provide you with the basics from the guides and then you can study them pretty throughly freshman summer and early sophomore fall.

If you’re non-BHP with some AP credits, I’ve seen a couple of students say they’re graduating in three years and get a really solid internship. Then, they extend their graduation a semester or a year to graduate with their original class and re recruit for an even better one for their original junior summer. Essentially, they represent themselves as a sophomore recruiting for junior summer twice. Not going to add my personal perspective on that but it’s yielded some really good results in the past

All in all - high GPA, learn the BIWS guides, and do an IB internship or at least something finance related early on.

To directly address orgs, campus investment team memberships get upperclassmen to vouch for you for IBA/WSFM which help you with IB recruiting. These latter two orgs have ~95% IB/PE/HF placement. That being said I’ve seen multiple people (non-diverse as well) strike out on clubs freshman year who learn the guides properly over their summer and then put in the leg work for a solid internship or two and get into IBA/WSFM.

There are definitely multiple people who don’t get into clubs or those two feeder orgs as well who place into IB whether that’s SF, NYC, or HOU. Houston is the most straightforward for recruiting since UT is very well represented in Texas.

I hope this helps

Best of luck!

HF

Intern in HF - Other

7mo

In leadership role at one of said orgs (USIT/TUIT/TEG) - just transfer to a better school tbh. Cornell, Chicago, Berkeley all good options - just have to keep your GPA pretty high.

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1mo

Do clubs really have that much of an influence in terms of recruiting and IBA/WSFM that its better to transfer? Also whats the impact of Greek Life?

Sorry for asking a lot of questions, I’m a BHP+finance 2028 admit getting prepped (have finance extracurriculars and an internship)

PE

Research Analyst in PE - Growth

1mo

Imho Berkeley isn’t going to yield meaningfully better results, still a large state school plus the geographical/timezone difference sucks for interviews/networking calls. Transferring to Cornell/Gtown or a small LAC/NESCAC (especially for better per capita placement + academic story on resume) works better.
Source: transferred from UT to a LAC, got BB IBD. Also could try the BHP/WSFM route which is arguably just as good as an LAC if not better.

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HF

Intern in HF - EquityHedge

1mo

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