Colby to Investment Banking at Bank of America | Chat with Ryan Stewart

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🗓️ 21 March 2025

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Patrick Curtis, CEO and founder of Wall Street Oasis.
0:02.8	Today's chat is with Ryan, a WSO Academy alum that was able to break into a front office
0:07.6	investment banking role at Bank of America in New York, as well as an exclusive private equity
0:11.9	internship for his sophomore summer.
0:13.8	He joined the Academy in the summer after his freshman year, and he explains the two primary
0:18.2	ways that the program helped him land these competitive internships.
0:21.6	Enjoy.
0:40.5	All right, Ryan, thanks so much for taking the time to chat with us today.
0:47.5	Ryan's a former W.S.O. Academy student had a lot of success. So I have a particular affinity for this story because Ryan was a small liberal arts college like I went to Williams.
0:52.3	Ryan's at Colby. He's an athlete there, a soccer player.
0:56.1	Ryan, do you want to just give a little bit more about your background just so the listeners
0:59.2	couldn't kind of hear about that? Definitely. Yeah, great to talk to you again, Patrick.
1:03.9	So my name is Ryan Stewart, and I'm originally from the Philadelphia area and really decided to
1:10.0	attend Colby because of the combination of the
1:12.6	academics and the chance to play on the men's varsity soccer team, which has been a
1:16.6	great time so far. And coming in the school, I knew I wanted to do something finance, business
1:22.9	related, but really didn't know what that would look like. And during my freshman year, I had the chance to do a few networking events that Colby held
1:31.3	and found investment banking, corporate banking, private equity, to really be kind of the most interesting.
1:37.4	And after taking a course during my freshman winter called The Art of the M&A deal,
1:41.6	that's really when I decided to pursue investment banking, really. Got it. Okay. So you kind of knew pretty early on freshman year, which is earlier than a lot of the other students kind of find out. A lot of them are like sophomore. They come to us like winter sophomore year and we're panicking because we're like, you need a hurry. You actually were probably what I call right on time, which is summer of after your freshman year. You know, RBC opened up in September, we know, this past year. So it was super early. I'm curious. Were you ready for that? I know you started in like mid-summer with us. Were you ready for that? Or did you feel like it wasn't until? because I know there was another Russia of firms that opened up like December 4th and then a bunch more in January. I'd love if you could just like talk a little bit about from your perspective when you came in. I know obviously there was a resume review. I remember the seven stories specifically about you. A lot of your stories were about soccer. And I was like, we need a, we need a little bit more. So talk a little bit about that process with the head mentors.
2:39.2	Yeah, definitely. So I would say prior to joining the academy, I would say something that I was
2:44.2	pretty good at was networking just because I'd always been a people person. So that was something
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