E15: Side Door to Investment Banking

Wall Street Oasis

Business

4.9 • 534 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Member @WSOmentor1022 reveals how even with a low GPA from a non-target school he ended up at an investment bank just a few years after graduating. How he successfully interviewed for a crucial internship when he had the flu, the most important reason he was able to land multiple offers and how much he's getting paid now... His AMA is linked here. Want him to Mentor You? Book time to chat with him here

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0:00.0	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.
0:25.4	Member WSO Mentor 1022 reveals how even with a low GPA from a non-target school, he ended up
0:32.4	at an investment bank just a few years after graduating. How he successfully interviewed for a crucial internship while
0:38.7	having the flu, the most important reason he was able to land multiple offers, and how much he's
0:44.3	getting paid now. Enjoy. WSO Mentor 1022. Thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.
1:02.1	Yeah, hey, good to talk to you, Patrick.
1:04.2	Be great to just give the listeners a quick summary of your background.
1:08.7	Yeah, you know, brief summary. I went to a non-target for undergrad. I had an
1:13.2	okay GPA, someone called low, definitely low for banking, probably around a 30 to a 3-2. I can't
1:20.2	exactly remember. It's been a little bit. It's been about a year and a half in kind of a corporate
1:26.0	strategy slash business development role, focused a lot on financial
1:30.9	valuation. And I used that as kind of a platform to break into investment banking, which I did
1:36.8	after about a year and a half there. Great. And when you were in undergrad, when did you kind of
1:42.3	know that you wanted to break into banking? Was it something you knew freshman year? You didn't realize until junior year? And then, you know, when did you kind of know that you wanted to break into banking?
1:44.7	Was it something you knew freshman year?
1:46.5	You didn't realize until junior year.
1:48.2	And then when did you realize this is going to be really tough from a non-target?
1:52.9	Yeah, it was definitely later in the process for me that I realized I wanted to go into banking.
1:57.9	So the first interest I actually had in finance, I kind of got through Wall Street Oasis, ironically,
2:03.7	ended up kind of working with them a little bit in their internship program.
2:09.8	And then I kind of found more about banking and said,
2:12.8	this is something I'm interested in pursuing.
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