University of Georgia to Real Estate Private Equity | Chat with Chandler | WSO Academy

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🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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From managing construction sites in Ann Arbor to breaking into a real-estate private-equity shop—Chandler’s detour pays off. After a non-target MBA at Georgia and zero on-campus finance recruiting, he leaned on WSO Academy for brutal coursework, mocked interviews and relentless networking. Hear how he leveraged a single phone call to land a full-time REPE internship, slashing MBA debt with a full ride and proving persistence beats pedigree. Perfect for career-switchers aiming at high-finance from unconventional backgrounds. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 👇👇👇 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 💪🔥 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IS WSO ACADEMY FOR YOU? Yes, if any of the below sound like you: ✅ You want to break into investment banking but don’t know where to start ✅ You've applied to 100+ jobs and heard nothing back ✅ You’re not sure how to network effectively ✅ Your technicals or behavioral answers need work ✅ You’re not from a target school or have below a 3.7 GPA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Land A High Finance Career: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/academy?affiliate=socialwinner-youtube WSO Academy is the largest online finance community with 1M+ members and 20M+ annual visitors. The 50+ head mentors in the program were handpicked from 1,300+ finance pros. They’ve helped thousands break into Wall Street careers over the past decade. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 🎓 JOIN WAITLIST HERE: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/academy?affiliate=socialwinner-youtube ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #finance #investmentbanking #privateequity #hedgefund #consulting #venturecapital #wallstreet The Daily Peel Newsletter 📰 → https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/media/newsletters/the-daily-peel 🎧 Listen to the Podcast: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wall-street-oasis/id1463441793 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7nQxuApNXFkUSvojQGKyAQ?si=GrYh2zIHSsub8S8xIX0PjQ&nd=1 📚 WSO Resources: Courses: https://bit.ly/2ESzrv2 Resume Review: https://bit.ly/2Z0DFYq Mentors: https://bit.ly/3lIHoUi Events: https://bit.ly/350vMGd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 📱 Follow us: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | TikTok → @wallstreetoasis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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0:00.0	ended up calling him in February or March and I basically just said, you know, I should have asked you this a long time ago and I'm kind of an idiot for not, but I would love to work for you for the summer.
0:14.7	Can you hire me as an intern? And he said.
0:35.4	This is Patrick Curtis, CEO and founder of Wall Street Oasis.
0:37.4	Today we have a great chat with Chandler. Chandler joined us right before he was starting his non-target MBA. He had graduated from the University of Georgia, did never think he'd go back to school at Georgia, but ended up getting a full ride. It was too much to turn down. He decided to go to the non-target route and invested himself through Academy, ended up landing in a great real estate private
0:54.7	equity shop.
0:55.6	Listen to how it happened.
0:56.6	Can you give a quick summary where you're from, that type of stuff?
0:59.0	And then from there, usually ask about like what you were doing, you know, undergrad,
1:05.5	why you went and got an MBA.
1:07.9	And then kind of talking a little bit about, you know, the whole progress of like, you know,
1:13.9	what you were going for, you know, what your long-term goal was. I know you got to real estate
1:17.6	private equity, so it's awesome. You're doing that this upcoming summer, right? Like right now?
1:22.7	We're coming up. Right now. Yep. Nice. So. Started last week,
1:26.8	finishing up my second week of that internship now.
1:30.3	Sweet.
1:31.3	Okay, so we'll kind of just go over like the whole recruiting process for that.
1:34.3	I'd love to like cover that.
1:36.3	Is there anything you want to like stay away from or highlight specifically like in the
1:41.3	when we like?
1:43.3	I mean one in particular, guess i was uh maybe just gonna well yeah no i mean
1:50.3	i was kind of just kind of go with the flow yeah cool okay let's do it all right uh you ready to go
1:56.8	let's do it all right chandler thanks so much for taking the time to join us today.
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