Case Western to Deutsche Bank | Chat with Andrew | WSO Academy

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🗓️ 23 May 2025

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Andrew took a bold risk — letting an exploding offer go in hopes of something better. And it paid off. In this episode, we chat with Andrew about how he leveraged WSO Academy starting his sophomore year at Case Western to land an investment banking internship at Deutsche Bank. Hear how he prepped with over a dozen mock interviews, handled a 30-hour-per-week PE internship, and navigated high-stakes SuperDays — including two in one day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 👇👇👇 Land A High Finance Career: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/academy?affiliate=socialwinner-youtube 🚀💼📈 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WHAT IS WSO ACADEMY? It's a 12-week program to dramatically increase your odds of landing a 6-figure+ role in high finance... What’s included? 💥 GUARANTEED offer in high finance 🎓 Full course library for life (over $4k+ of content) 👥 Direct access to 1,300+ top mentors across banks & funds 📚 Tons of live training bootcamps (IB, PE, VC, Excel, etc.) 📄 Full resume rewrite + LinkedIn review (human + AI) 🧠 1:1 work with Head Mentors on TMAY + behavioral questions 🗣️ 6–10+ mock interviews, HireVue prep, Excel + logic assessments 🏢 Internship with WSO for resume branding 📬 Proven networking strategy & outreach software 🧭 Accountability coach & progress matrix 💬 Lifetime access to the exclusive alum Slack community 👉 JOIN WAITLIST HERE: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/academy?affiliate=socialwinner-youtube 💪🔥 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IS WSO ACADEMY FOR YOU? Yes, if any of the below sound like you: ✅ You want to break into investment banking but don’t know where to start ✅ You've applied to 100+ jobs and heard nothing back ✅ You’re not sure how to network effectively ✅ Your technicals or behavioral answers need work ✅ You’re not from a target school or have below a 3.7 GPA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Land A High Finance Career: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/academy?affiliate=socialwinner-youtube WSO Academy is the largest online finance community with 1M+ members and 20M+ annual visitors. The 50+ head mentors in the program were handpicked from 1,300+ finance pros. They’ve helped thousands break into Wall Street careers over the past decade. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 🎓 JOIN WAITLIST HERE: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/academy?affiliate=socialwinner-youtube ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #finance #investmentbanking #privateequity #hedgefund #consulting #venturecapital #wallstreet The Daily Peel Newsletter 📰 → https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/media/newsletters/the-daily-peel 🎧 Listen to the Podcast: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wall-street-oasis/id1463441793 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7nQxuApNXFkUSvojQGKyAQ?si=GrYh2zIHSsub8S8xIX0PjQ&nd=1 📚 WSO Resources: Courses: https://bit.ly/2ESzrv2 Resume Review: https://bit.ly/2Z0DFYq Mentors: https://bit.ly/3lIHoUi Events: https://bit.ly/350vMGd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 📱 Follow us: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | TikTok → @wallstreetoasis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Patrick Curtis, CEO and founder of Wall Street Oasis. Today we have a great chat with Andrew.
0:05.5	Andrew joined us right before his sophomore year at Case Western. What was really interesting about
0:10.3	Andrew's story is he had a very high-risk situation where he had an offer that was exploding. He let it
0:15.9	explode, ended up landing at a bulge bracket. But more importantly, listen to specifically how he leveraged us most,
0:21.9	and more importantly, how many mock interviews taking the time to join us today.
0:44.4	Yeah, thanks for having me.
0:45.5	So it would be awesome if you could just give a quick summary bio of your background.
0:49.1	Yeah, absolutely.
0:50.0	So I'm originally from New York, born and raised.
0:52.9	I came out to Case Western here in Cleveland, Ohio.
0:56.6	You know, did all the finance stuff pretty early on in my freshman year.
1:00.6	We're in an investment club called the Weatherhead Fund.
1:03.6	Did an internship, FP&A, an industrial technology company.
1:08.3	My freshman summer, fall, I guess my sophomore fall i had the
1:14.1	opportunity to work at a private equity firm here include them and that kind of led me to being
1:18.6	interested in investment banking and kind of got me into the whole recruitment process nice so you
1:24.4	basically um it sounds like you kind of knew what you wanted to do.
1:29.1	Like even in freshman year, you were getting involved in finance clubs.
1:32.5	Was I be on the radar then?
1:34.5	Like, did you even know what it was?
1:35.6	Or was it something that you kind of, like you said, once you were at the PE fund, you kind of realized?
1:39.6	Yeah, I quickly realized pretty early on that I wanted to do something in finance.
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