Villanova to Evercore IB | Chat with Madhav Lopez | WSO Academy

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🗓️ 14 March 2025

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💰Land A High Finance Career: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/academy?affiliate=mashup-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? 📃 ...besides a GUARANTEED offer in high finance? 🎓 Full course library for life (over $4k of courses and climbing every month) 🆘 Direct access to top high finance pros (1,300+ mentor network). Need a mock from a pro with experience at a specific bank/fund/group last minute? This is covered and unmatched by anyone. 👩‍🏫 Tons of live training. 1-year access to ALL of our live bootcamps (financial modeling, valuation, excel, IB interview, PE interview, VC, etc) ⚙️ Full resume rewrite from Head Mentor + AI tool to ensure high score (90+) based on key criteria such as impact, brevity and style + LinkedIn review + LinkedIn AI review 🎯 1:1 work with Head Mentors (typically 5+hrs) to ensure the answers to Tell Me About Yourself (TMAY) and "Why this industry?" are exceptional, not just great 🗣️ Minimum of 6 mock interviews, but typically 8-10 mocks followed by more to get rewarmed when timing is most critical (recruiting season) 🤖 Hirevue simulator so you're ready to ace these ✅ Excel Assessments (+ numerical reasoning, logic & psychometric) to judge where you stand and see how to beat these tests to land interviews 🧐 A finance research internship with WSO to help brand yourself and land more interviews 🕸️Detailed networking guidance with 6 office hours every week and software to help you scale your outreach efficiently 🛤️ Accountability matrix + coach to keep you on track and guide you through the program 👴 Lifetime access to the full alum Slack community for life (super powerful) ➕ a ton more.... ⌛ JOIN WAITLIST HERE: https://wallstreetoasis.com/academy?a... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IS WSO ACADEMY FOR YOU? WSO Academy is not just for target school or 3.7+ GPA students. We have helped applicants from all backgrounds dramatically improve their odds. The answer is yes if... You are interested in investment banking as a career and are motivated to break in. You have been rejected (or ghosted) despite applying to hundreds of investment banking jobs online. You are unsure how to network with those in investment banking to land interviews. You struggle to answer the most difficult technical questions that you need to ace to land the offer. Your answers to the behavioral questions are good, but not exceptional. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 💰 Land A High Finance Career: https://wallstreetoasis.com/academy?a... WSO Academy was founded and is currently run by Patrick Curtis who is the CEO and founder of Wall Street Oasis, the largest online community focused on careers in finance with over 1,000,000+ members and 20 million+ unique visitors every year. The 50+ head mentors for WSO Academy were selected from a pool of over 1,300 mentors and have helped thousands of students break into careers in Wall Street over the past decade. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ⌛ JOIN WAITLIST HERE: https://wallstreetoasis.com/academy?a... #finance #investmentbanking #privateequity #hedgefund #consulting #venturecapital #wallstreet ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Street Oasis.
0:03.6	Got another great chat today with Madav.
0:05.6	Madav is a sophomore at Villanova.
0:08.5	He ended up landing an offer at Evercore, so obviously an amazing outcome.
0:12.1	Listen to specifically how he leveraged Academy and how he had a little bit of a unique strategy
0:16.7	in terms of what he did after interviews, but more importantly, which firms he targeted.
0:20.2	Enjoy.
0:36.1	Thank you. in terms of what he did after interviews, but more importantly, which firms he targeted? Enjoy. All right, Madab, thanks so much for taking the time to speak with us today.
0:40.4	Yeah, no problem.
0:41.6	I'm happy to do it.
0:42.9	It'd be awesome if you could just give the listeners a short kind of summary bio where you're from, all that good stuff.
0:48.3	Yeah, so originally I'm from San Jose, California, but right now I go to Villanova University over just outside of Philadelphia,
0:54.9	and I'm studying applied quantate to finance here. Awesome. Okay, so talk to me a little bit about
0:59.5	just, you know, why Villanova when you got there, why quant finance is a pretty tough
1:05.2	major, probably. There's a lot of finance majors, econ majors that end up going into finance and they do just
1:12.5	fine. Talk to me a little bit about kind of that decision and yeah. Yeah, I guess first of all,
1:17.8	why Villanova? Honestly, for me, I just wanted to go to a good business school and I wanted to go
1:22.0	sorry that wasn't in California because I lived in California my whole life. But yeah, that's what I chose Villanova. And then specifically quant finance, it's a track here that you have to join after your freshman year. So you have to apply for it and get into it. And basically the guy who runs here, his name is Mr. Potabano. And he has a lot of experience on Wall Street. And obviously what comes with that is a lot of connections on Wall Street. So I just figured that it would be the best resource for me to use to put myself in a position
1:50.4	to get a great banking gig. So I really wanted to do that after I learned about it freshman year.
1:56.4	And then I joined the program and I was able to get a lot of access to a lot of resources I wouldn't have if I wasn't in the program. Awesome. So talk to me a little bit about just like when you got there freshman year. Did you know like finance? Did you know what investment banking was even back then or was it like something you were just discovering? Yeah. I mean, I remember I always like had known about the term investment making. if I don't, I definitely didn't know exactly what it was, like what it actually entailed.
2:21.2	But I kind of realized I wanted to do it around, I guess, the beginning of my sophomore year.
2:27.5	Like my freshman summer, freshman year and freshman summer, I had honestly no idea what I wanted to do at all.
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