<p>only for people who actually landed a job or a internship</p>
<p>NO QUESTIONS ALLOWED</p>
<p>like tell us the school you went to, grades, activities, and other factors that landed you a job at a boutique or BB</p>
<p>You should visit Wall Street Oasis.com. They have a lot of information on Wall Street, and you'll meet people with actual experience in IB,MC,etc. </p>
<p>With that said, my cousin who worked for MS had these credentials</p>
<p>-Yale Undergrad
-Econ. Major
-3.7 GPA
-Interned at a boutique banks, then MS and later recieved an offer.</p>
<p>Also, you're at Stern. So if you do well and get some good internships you should be fine when its time for recruiting.</p>
<p>Continental european university undergrad, BSc in Economics. GPA roughly equivalent to 3.8-3.9.
MSc from LSE.</p>
<p>Activities</p>
<p>High school: internship in business development organisation
Undergrad: research with economics professor, studied abroad (from already studying full-time abroad), negotiated new study abroad agreement for my university and another one, military service, learning new languages, drinking/partying, working out, playing soccer with friends in the park, playing computer games. Interned in fixed income research at really small boutique bank at the end of my final year of undergrad by pure chance (wasn't even considering a career in finance at that point).</p>
<p>Grad school: Got A LOT of help with my resume at the university career centre and spent many hours in front of my computer making it look half decent (hadn't touched it since high school), went to all the networking events I could, read up on as much as I possibly could in order to not sound like an idiot like 95% of the other supposedly elite students at the networking events with me, drank free wine, ate free cheese, interviewed dozens of times with BBs, received BB offers for trading desks.</p>
<p>Note: I did not do a BB internship, or any internship that most people here would consider "prestigious", and I did not have any prior connection to this industry at all. </p>
<p>Summary: I think my internship at the boutique, even though nobody has ever heard of that tiny bank, was crucial. The only reason I ended up applying for and being accepted at that internship was due to a random acquaintance I made at a university cocktail party during undergrad; he had worked at this boutique the previous summer. In other words, pure chance. Also, I only decided I wanted to be in this industry AFTER the internship; The only reason I took this internship because this bank had links with economic development organisations and I was interested in pursuing development economics as a career (and development organisations I applied to hadn't replied to my applications).</p>
<p>ivy league undergrad
3.9+ in econ math
spent sophomore summer in asset management firm
did junior summer in ibd at a bulge bracket
just started full time, still in training so i don't slave my life away...</p>
<p>activities won't really help that much. two things are important: the first is work experience and the second is GPA. networking can compensate for a lack of one or the other</p>
<p>Well, zoolander, I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you.</p>
<p>^I'm guessing you read and/or watched American Psycho.</p>
<p>bump bump bump</p>
<p>Pierce & Pierce is actually Sherman McCoy's firm from Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities, which Bret Easton Ellis appropriated as a reference to that novel.</p>
<p>^ah, I see.</p>
<p>yeah but their business cards werent as cool</p>
<p>Do people still use those business card holders?</p>
<p>theyre a must if you dont want them to get bent or torn while you are traveling</p>