Trinity to Boutique IB | Chat with Tudor | WSO Academy

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🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Tudor didn’t even know what investment banking was until late sophomore year. By then, most students had already recruited and secured internships. But that didn’t stop him. He used WSO Academy to stack multiple internships — from Big 4 roles in Romania to equity research and eventually, an investment banking internship in the U.S. In this chat, Tudor shares: How studying abroad at LSE sparked his finance interest The struggle of being a late starter from a non-target school How he overcame visa confusion and international challenges His exact strategy for networking, cold outreach, and internship stacking What finally helped him break into IB through an off-cycle boutique internship This is a must-watch if you're starting late or come from a non-target background. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 👇👇👇 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 💪🔥 Follow Us: 🔗 LinkedIn: /wall-street-oasis 📸 Instagram: /wallstreetoasis 📘 Facebook: /wallstreetoasis 🐦 Twitter: /wallstreetoasis 🎵 TikTok: /wallstreetoasis

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Patrick Curtis, CEO and founder of Wall Streetoases. Today we have another great chat with Tudor.
0:05.2	Tudor was a junior when he joined WSO Academy, so he had completely missed on-cycle recruiting for investment banking.
0:11.7	He actually didn't even know he wanted to do investment banking until kind of later in the sophomore year.
0:15.5	So it was a really unfortunate timing. He had and he was able to get some big four internships back in Romania
0:22.7	where his family's originally from. But listen to exactly how his whole story played out in terms
0:28.4	of how he was able to stack internships and more importantly and what he leveraged inside the program
0:32.8	to help him finally land in investment banking. Enjoy.
0:53.6	All right, Tudor, thanks so much for taking the time to join us today.
0:55.7	Thank you very much.
0:59.9	It'd be great if you could just give the listeners kind of a short summary bio of your background.
1:08.4	Right. So I was born in Queens, New York. I'm a first generation American, born to Romanian parents,
1:12.8	but I've kind of grown up all over the place, Europe, U.S.
1:16.3	I did my last years of high school in China, a full scholarship.
1:20.8	And there I really got interested in kind of economics.
1:28.3	And I chose to do economics as a major in college at Trinity College of Connecticut. And over the years, starting from freshman year,
1:33.3	I've kind of interacted more and more with businesses
1:36.3	and then kind of leaning into finance.
1:38.3	I started working with some startups,
1:40.3	working on the financial side,
1:42.3	kind of creating their presentation, et cetera.
1:44.8	And now over the time I moved to consulting and then towards research,
1:53.8	equity research, and now an investment banking, a spring internship.
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