<p>Will I be able to get an I-bank internship from LSP? I imagine it might be a bit hard, because of the rigid course structure, and they'd probably prefer CAS/Stern people. Right?</p>
<p>even if you are in LSP, you still have access to NYU’s oncampus recruitments. If you keep a high GPA, you’ll be just as competitive as someone from CAS with a high GPA.</p>
<p>^ Thanks. Do you think it’s a realistic ambition, though?</p>
<p>Do CAS econ students get internships? Or do they go to Stern kids/Ivy league people?</p>
<p>Not from LSP. OCR is in fact open to all NYU students, correct, but there’s a lot of stuff exclusive to Stern that even CAS econ kids can’t get access too, and that’s a top-10 program as well.</p>
<p>Theoretically you could walk into an event if you knew where and when it was, but your resume isn’t going to stack up and your program name is not gonna get respect. Kids in Stern have a hard enough time beating each other and beating the other target schools out for offers.</p>
<p>CAS econ kids do get internships. Many go with economic advisory agencies (i.e. RGE, Roubini is a Stern alum) or consulting firms or think tanks, many firms on the advisory side rather than banks. Sternies tend to place into investment banking, PWM, asset management, private equity, S&T, or middle-office/back-office positions.</p>
<p>The truth is, you most likely won’t be getting any IB action until you are a junior. By then, you should be in CAS. Your resume will say NYU, CAS and no one will know you were part of LSP if you do not bring it up. As Helldock mentioned, you do not have access to Stern’s exclusive recruitments. However, you can still get a FO internship if you network well enough and use all of NYU’s resources. But you are right, it will be hard.</p>
<p>Your GPA will grant you a 1st round interview. When you go to your interview, your recruiter will most likely ask you why should they hire you over someone who went to Stern and why you were in CAS if you want to do IB.</p>
<p>^ Do people have internships in the summer between their junior year and senior year; or in the summer between their sophmore year and junior year?</p>
<p>Because if it’s the former, then by that time I’ll be in CAS.</p>
<p>Not necessarily junior year, quite a few sophomores have been breaking in across the Street out of Stern just this year. Even then, a CAS junior who’s in their first year in CAS is going to have limited access to coursework for their major, so their Relevant Coursework section on the resume is gonna be <em>very</em> weak.</p>
<p>^ Okay, so am I right in thinking that I can get an internship in the summer between junior and senior year, because by that time I’ll be in CAS.</p>
<p>Also do the years go as following: </p>
<p>Freshman, then sophmore, then junior, then senior? (Sorry I’m from the UK)</p>
<p>Yes, they do follow that order. You are correct that most summer analysts in finance are rising seniors, i.e. the summer between their junior and senior years. You’ll have a hard time coming out of LSP and facing the CAS econ kids, the Sternies, and all the other kids outside NYU.</p>