HS student has questions about IB

Career Opportunities & Internships Investment Banking
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<p>Seeing as I'm not even in college yet, when I read a lot of the topics here I'm a little confused x). If possible "simplified" answers would be nice. </p>

<p>Anyway, can somebody tell me exactly what an IB does? From what I've read, it seems like everbody just sends them work to do in the afternoon, that they end up staying up very late to finish. </p>

<p>Also, what type fo college background do IB's come from? What do they major in? Is it accounting or finance or something else?</p>

<p>Do people enter into a company as an IB? (it seems a lot of people do it for a few years for the exit opprotunities, so they can climb the company latter).</p>

<p>Yeah, I plan to major in Business in college but I don't really know which area I'm thinking of yet.</p>

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<p>Depends on the bank you want to work for. </p>

<p>For BBs, the most probable candidate will be like: </p>

<p>Target School
3.5 and higher GPA
Econ major (or similar i.e. Finance) or Engineering/Quantitative Major (less occurring than econ though)
Junior year summer analyst</p>

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<p>There are plenty of other threads on this topic, as well as other sites that answer your questions in great detail.</p>