<p>Ok, So i'm a very good student with only a 3.7 due to taking some courses in High School that lowered my GPA. I'm attempting to get the IB job in the future and I attend Kelley(I.E. the name) </p>
<p>I got a 3.94 last semester and I'm capable of continuing on that path. I enjoy business and think I can do well in the field. My fear is that there are too many business majors and that I should have taken the path of engineer or computer scientist. </p>
<p>I am trying to Major in Finance and Accounting with minors in Mathematics and Computer Science. I know Kelley is not top in everything, but they are pretty decent at Finance and accounting from what I see. I'm trying to get into the Business Honors program(Pretty dang tough to get into!) and get some great Extra curricular volunteer stuff under my belt.</p>
<p>What exactly should I do for the highest potential at getting the IB job? </p>
<p>I cringe when people say, "Oh the firms hire ( insert non business major here) because they think outside the box..yada yada yada."</p>
<p>I can't believe that it would be like that in real life; as I would think it's a tough job from all the hype I hear about it!</p>
<p>I’d like to clarify that I’m more interested in Hedge Funds or Private Equity. As a know nothing college kid, I have no chance at those till I get experience and possibly my Finance Masters or MBA</p>
<p>Anyways you have the GPA. Now focus on networking and landing an internship. Are you a soph? Junior? Land a summer FA position (junior year) and hopefully it’ll turn into a FT offer.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input. I titled my thread “am I positioning myself well” because I am a first year college student with sophomore credit hour status. I’ll look into that link later on, but I know there is an investment banking workshop that would certainly be beneficial enough to roughly say ‘guarantee’. I am certainly looking at the ib workshop for the future during Junior year.</p>
<p>if you want to do investment banking (or PE/HF) and you’re in Kelley and you don’t already know everything there is to know about the IBN, then you’re not positioning yourself well</p>
<p>for example, if you wait to look at the workshop until “during junior year,” you’re screwed because applications are now due during one’s sophomore year</p>
<p>Thanks for the headsup, but thankfully I’m a freshman. I assume the application is not open for me, but I will check. I knew that the applications were due Sophomore year and I have not applied as of yet.</p>
<p>In your sophomore year try to land a PWM internship or corporate finance internship at a F500. Those are both very good to have on a resume after sophomore year, after that, not so much. You can even brand yourself pretty early if you do a program at Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch, I know they have some big ones. Once you’re there, network, network, network. PWM is pretty much the first thing a lot of people do in order to get some exposure to finance, once you’re in, it’s a platform. </p>
<p>I don’t know too much about Bloomington, but there might be some smaller firms you could intern at during the year. Get on that.</p>