<p>I've been doing a lot of research about summer internships and summer jobs especially for Juniors and Seniors in high school. I was wondering if there are such things as a high school abroad internship programs? </p>
<p>Here are the links I've been using: goabroad.com
Let me know guys! Maybe we can figure something out together.
Thanks.</p>
<p>Bump! I really wanna know! Especially if it has to do with specifically Investment Banking.</p>
<p><em>Sigh</em> investment banking…picky.</p>
<p>Especially as a high schooler take any internship you can get.</p>
<p>what skills do you think a high school junior can offer an investment bank?</p>
<p>Well since I am a “high school junior” I guess it’s reasonable to think I won’t contribute anything. Yet I have read enormous amounts of books of investing, stock market, modeling, investment banking and much more. I am familiar with what they do but have never put my skills to use. I would say I know more than a “high school junior” would know about investment banking. An internship isn’t just what you bring to the company, it’s also what they see. I mean, yes they will discard me as an applicant but if they would just sit down and talk to me about, well finances, they would see I have potential. I’m not saying that BB banks recruit me over the summer as an analyst, like JPMorgan, Goldman, pretty much Wall Street Firms. I am saying that a small firm, maybe a branch from those BB banks could offer me a 2 week or 3 week internship, to benefit both me and them. How? Obviously I would get knowledge but most importantly experience and networking. Starting at an early age is as if I am a prodigy. I could be, and if I got the chance I would ecstatically give my all to portray that to the firm. If I am good enough I could greatly contribute to them, and I could be a potential analyst in their near future, just speculating.
This might be a little irrelevant, well not really, as a “high school junior” I have made a profit of 4,500$ in the stock market. Yes that doesn’t seem a lot, but considering I only started with 400$ means something, especially because I am a “high school junior”. I know investment banking isn’t all about stock market but that shows my initiative and analytical skills, or so I think.
I’m just really trying to answer your question, without getting mad and being a, well frankly a d i c k about it. If I just had the opportunity to at least converse with the firm just a little bit, I would definitely believe that it will be worth their time, so I am really serious about this. I could write a whole essay on why I think I could be a great candidate, especially at this age, and I actually am going to write a couple and send them to some firms over the summer, the worst that they could do is say no. Actually that isn’t even that bad, I would know they at least read and acknowledges my essay. Who knows, I could end up in New York for a week or two, anything is possible (highly doubt it haha).
Well I hope this answers your question, it might not, but I hope it did.</p>
<p>Sorry for the grammatical errors in my original post. </p>
<p>But thanks for your replies. I am certainly not picky about the specific areas of finance or banking investments. I was just hoping if to see what kinds of programs there are available in these criteria, if any? And, it’ll be great if they come with some sort of a written scholarship I can apply to as well, because money is not what I have… hence, the “internship”. </p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>tvdn: Yeah you’re not going to get a paid internship abroad as a high school student, sorry 
Hell, I’m an upperclassman at an Ivy and honestly, those are hard to come by even for me and my classmates. If you want a paid internship, look stateside…though even then, it’s going to be hard to find one as a high schooler, given the state of the economy. Your best bet may be a regular old job…no shame in that!
Don’t despair, however. It might be possible to apply for some summer programs for high schoolers abroad (which would likely involve taking classes, not working). There’s some program I heard about at Oxford back in the day, and I know there’s a company that has adventure trips all over the world – so maybe look into something like that? If finances are an issue, I think most of these programs have financial aid. </p>
<p>Grivacobae: Look, it’s great that you have such a passion for the stock market. But you have to understand, there are literally thousands of college juniors who have read all of these books and also have a passion for the stock market, with the added benefit of several years of college-level economics and finance classes. And even they are having trouble getting investment banking internships. My advice would be to get a job at a local business to build up your resume, and actually earn some money. Seriously, even a lot of the boutique firms only hire rising college seniors, or mayyybe juniors. I think rising college sophomores are generally SOL, let alone someone still in high school.</p>
<p>Also, I think you need to be a bit more humble and realistic about what you could bring to an ibank, at least in terms of knowledge of actual finance. It takes banks months to train college graduates who spent 4 years studying economics; they hire these kids with the knowledge that they will have to spend time and resources training them before they can independently contribute much to the firm. As a high school junior, especially if you were just there for 2-3 weeks, as you said, you really wouldn’t be able to contribute a whole lot to their day-to-day work, since they’d have to have someone supervising you. I am not a finance person myself, but from what I have gathered from friends who will be joining some of the big ibanks next year, the summer internships are largely training grounds for future ibankers – the banks train you and get you going, and end up hiring a pretty large proportion of their summer analysts to work for them the next year. In other words, it’s an investment that will pay off for them soon. You wouldn’t be able to work for them for at least another four years, so training now wouldn’t make sense. YOU would gain a lot from an internship at an investment bank, but they really wouldn’t – I’m sorry, but that’s how most internships work, even at the college level, and it’s important to be humble about what you know and can actually contribute. Keep up what you’re doing, and your love of ibanking WILL take you far…just have patience. </p>
<p>You don’t need to push yourself into being some kind of “investment prodigy” or whatever you called it. If you’re smart and ambitious, and do well in college, you will get an ibanking internship eventually. You don’t need one now.</p>
<p>Not to mention that making a 16 year old work 80-100 hour weeks is probably a violation of multiple child labor laws, hahaha.</p>
<p>Yes your right I should be humble and I truly am but idk why that question kinda got me mad haha. I know it wasn’t intended to offend me or anything but it just did lol. And I do have a job :). McDonalds! No joke. And also yea I got carried away with it (I was in the moment). But I do know that they train the interns and some analyst with “Training The Street” program, and I was thinking about purchasing it just to see. And I could go for the whole summer, but not 80-100 a week haha. But it’s always good to get a heads start, that’s what I’m trying, plus start networking too :). I’m just scared that I wont break into Investment Banking, so thats why I try really hard on the subject, idk it’s just that I dont want to fail :/.
Weird problem of mine? Yea probably, same thing goes with basketball hahaha I practice every day for like 3 hours!</p>
<p>Haha, the big banks require you to work 80-100 hours a week, even as an intern. And for your first few years there. I’m not even kidding…one woman I know turned down opportunities at “bigger” banks for a job at a smaller one that would allow her to “only” work 60 hours/week. So you should realize that if you want to be an ibanker, you basically sacrifice most of your 20s to Goldman Sachs, or w/e.</p>
<p>For now, honestly, just study for your SATs, or whatever. Are you a rising senior? If so, get a head start on your common app essays, too. The best thing you can do for your ibanking career right now is to get into the best college you can possibly get into. Big banks recruit more heavily at top programs, so it’s easier to make it from there, though certainly far from impossible at other schools. So go get that Princeton Review book and study away…it’s a better use of your time for now.</p>
<p>OK, lets put aside what you can offer as a junior and focus on the facts. If you wanted to intern abroad, you would, I imagine, need a visa that allows you to work. Even if a company accepted high school interns, I think it would be unlikely that they would go to the trouble to arrange a visa, help you find someplace to stay, etc…just for a few weeks. </p>
<p>I would suggest you think more locally and consider shadowing someone for a week or so.</p>
<p>i am also curious as to why the OP wants to go abroad… are abroad internships better than internships in your local city?</p>