<p>I've read here that some of you have completed internships at UBS, GS, etc. right out of high school. I'm pretty interested as to how you guys got these internships? I've been looking at their websites and I find that most internships are for college students. Can anyone tell me where to start if I want to acquire one of these internships for myself next summer? Thanks!</p>
<p>Connections are the way I may have 2 internships lined up (JP Morgan + Merrill Lynch). Two of my friends are also lining up internships (Salomon Smith Barney + JP Morgan) through family networks. We will be interning the summer before our Senior year. While I don't think you absolutely need connections to come up with an internship, it is the way most of my friends and myself are obtaining them. We are located in NYC btw. That also probably helps. I'd say ask your school counselor if they have any internship opportunities and definately look within your family, etc. for any type of connections. Hope that was some help.</p>
<p>Thanks for your input, drop. Unfortunately, I don't have many connections at the moment that would help me get a job in IB/finance. Any other ways?</p>
<p>I'm very interested in finding out about this too. Unfortunately, I don't think I have any family connections. Is it still possible to get some kind of decent summer internship after high school/before college?</p>
<p>BTW I live in Boston.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>the only way i've heard is connections. it'd be really helpful if anyone had advice on getting summer internships in policy, law, business, broadcasting, production, government, anything besides the slew of biomed stuff that's already out there.</p>
<p>I'm just bringing up the other side of the coin.</p>
<p>S interned at Goldman Sachs last summer before his final year in college. He'll begin there full time after he graduates in May.</p>
<p>I have the list of his summer analyst group of about 120 in his basic area and where they go to school. Only 1 of the 120 listed his school as a high school, whereas the others were mostly undergrads and also MBA students, etc.</p>
<p>The high school kid was there through connections of course. In spite of an overtly friendly general atmosphere at GS, according to S the kid was a source of (mostly good-natured!) ridicule who was resented mostly because he didn't know what he was doing and wasted a lot of people's time. I certainly don't know about internships at other top banks, but to get this one, S (with 3 years of college under his belt) had 2 on-campus interviews of a couple hours each, plus Goldman flew him to NY, put him up overnight in a hotel, for at least 3 more hours of interviews etc...so a lot of time and $ goes into this process. Perhaps the interns resented someone not up to snuff and according to S they weren't shy in showing their disdain.</p>
<p>Don't get me wrong I think an internship like this could be great if you are a special person in the right place, but you should be sure you can handle it. If the internship is anything like GS's you'll be doing real development work that may actually be put into production.</p>
<p>Can you tell us if the summer analyst internships had people from school outside the top 25? or was it just the ivy leagues and top colleges?</p>
<p>boomer01, </p>
<p>Well S's summer internship division wasn't i-banking which I'm guessing might be your interest but I think some generalities stand. His division was equity systems (his top choice) so recruiting is more toward tech schools than i-banking. S plans MBA ~4-5 yrs from now and Goldman encourages working in different areas.</p>
<p>So of about 120 schools, most represented were Columbia 14, Carnegie Mellon 7,Cornell 8, Dartmouth 4, Howard 3, UMich 4, MIT 3, NYU 7, Princeton 7, Rutgers 5, UPenn 6, RPI 10, UTexas 4, SUNY all campuses 7, Stanford 5.
I counted 70 out of 120 from top 25 schools, if you include RPI and NYU you're up to 87 or nearly 3/4. </p>
<p>fyi, there were also single representatives from schools as diverse as DePaul, UCSD, Middlebury, Mt. Holyoke, WashU, Providence College, URI, Villanova, but clearly the advantage lies in the research university where recruiters come to campus.</p>
<p>I imagine other areas are even more ivy-top 25 based.</p>
<p>2331clk I take it your son is joining the IT department. I would like to ask why because IT usually takes back seat when compared to the S&T and ibanking department?</p>
<p>mahras2</p>
<p>As far as I know and it's not my own personal field, you're right, IT in general takes a back seat to ibanking.</p>
<p>In S case it's a question of interest and timing. He's a CS major and didn't take his first business course till he was half way thru college. But it clicked. Luckily he had enough time to add a second major, plus a masters also not in CS, when he graduates this May. The whole thing is taking a fifth year, so he has much more than just CS.</p>
<p>Still for him he loves CS and that's what he wants to do first, he told me for the first couple years out of school. A lot of CS kids just want to write code all day, but he has a lot of interests, and formal training, beyond CS and plans MBA. He's working now 4+ hours a day on an internet enterprise that could be big, he's gotten lots of positive feedback (of course it could fizzle) but my point is he is entrepreneurial. Also he doesn't care in the least about prestige and has no interest in working the long hours for ibanking.</p>
<p>Interestingly the small division where he will be working gives hefty bonuses. This is not common in IT from what I understand.</p>
<p>ahhh okay. Hmmm he could have become a trader as CS and other technical majors like physics are STRONGLY valued in equities or fixed income trading or thats what my impression was. Its good that they give out good bonuses and people who make good programs are of course quite an asset for quantitative hedge funds and trading. Good luck to your son.</p>