Hello and welcome.

I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members

to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general.

Let's get to it.

In this episode, Sarah explains why she ended up at a non-target school, how her 4.0 GPA

opened a lot of doors, and how she ended up at a bulge bracket investment bank in New York.

Learned how she dealt with private equity recruiting and when she realized that she was more

interested in growth equity and the VC world.

Finally, listened to how she finally got her big break, was able to make the job, but only

after three years investment banking and an analyst to associate promotion.

Enjoy.

How are you? associate promotion. Enjoy. All right, Sarah, thanks so much for joining the Wall Streetoises podcast.

Of course. Thanks for having me.

So it would be great if you could just give the listeners a short summary of your bio.

Sure. So I came out of a non-target public school, more of an engineering school. I was a finance major there, came from a little bit of an untraditional background. So no parents in finance or anything, even corporate or business related, actually ended up my

sophomore year getting pretty lucky and having an internship in kind of financial research.

And that's where investment banking first kind of came across my radar.

From that, I decided I was going to give it a shot.

Didn't actually think I would have any success on that recruiting front.

My school was not at all a feeder, even though it was a top public school.

There was just zero investment banking recruiting on campus.

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