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Imagine sending 300 cold emails, getting ignored most of the time,

and still landing a Wall Street job.

Sounds crazy, right? That's exactly what one student did. He didn't go to a target school.

He didn't have a clear roadmap into investment banking. So he started networking, hard.

Over 100 conversations with bankers later, one boutique internship changed everything.

A year later, he landed equity capital markets at Goldman Sachs.

This is how Dylan did it.

All right, Dylan, thanks so much for taking the time to join us today.

Hi, Patrick.

How are you?

I'm great today. So it would be awesome if we could give the listeners kind of a short summary bio, where you're from, all that good stuff. Yeah, no, for sure. Thank you for having me. My name is Dylan Harris. I'm originally from Westchester, New York. I was born in the city, but that moved out there. worked there for a very long time did a couple different things, life guarding whatever

came from the University of Richmond

so that's where I go to school now. I worked there for a very long time, did a couple different things, lifeguarding whatever. Came from the University of Richmond. So that's where I go to school now. I'm a finance and accounting major here. Really got on campus super early and just wanted to like kind of understand what what finance and that interest tournament for me. And you know, obviously now ended up in a really awesome role. I'm super excited about I'm going to be at a GS next summer doing equity capital markets banking. So I'm really

excited about it. Yeah, that's been an amazing outcome. So congrats. I want to talk about just

like, I guess freshman year because a lot of people listening, just like, you know, sometimes

are coming in looking and not really sure what to do. When you went to career office and started talking to them about that, how did you come to the decision of like, okay, banking is probably what I want? Was it more like, okay, the exit option are really good? Was it more of a, hey, just fits my personality better? What would you think is like? I would think it was a mix

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