Western University to BMO Capital Markets | Chat with Devin | WSO Academy

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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From club rejections to a BMO Capital Markets investment-banking offer—Devin’s grind is the blueprint. The Western University (Ivey) sophomore fired off 412 cold emails, converted 60 coffee chats, cracked 9 first-rounds and juggled 4 super-days in a single week to secure his dream 2026 IB internship. Hear how WSO Academy’s resume overhaul, bootcamps and rapid-fire mock interviews super-charged his preparation and confidence. Perfect watch if you’re targeting Toronto’s Big Five or NYC banks and need a proven networking playbook. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 👇👇👇 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	I sent 412 cold emails in total, and that was directed at 166 people.
0:24.1	Hey, this is Patrick Curtis, CEO and founder of Wall Street Oasis.
0:25.8	Today we have a great chat with Devin.
0:30.0	Devin joined us in December during his sophomore year at Western, up in Canada.
0:36.8	Listen to how crazy his recruiting cycle got since he landed nine first rounds and then ended up basically getting four super days.
0:54.8	It was basically all in the same week. Listen to how he survived it and how he leveraged us best to have a success and land an internship at BMO in investment banking. Enjoy. All right, Devin, thanks so much for taking the time to shout with me today. Yeah, thanks so much, Patrick. So it'd be awesome if you could just give the listeners kind of short summary bio where you're from, all that good stuff.
0:55.6	Yeah, absolutely. My name is Devon Chohan.
0:57.3	I just finished my second year at Western and I'm starting Ivy in September, entering my third year of school.
1:04.2	Next summer, I actually signed for BMO Capital Markets in Toronto.
1:08.5	Right now, I'm working at CI Financial as an intern on the
1:12.5	corporate finance team. And yeah, pretty much sums up who I am. Awesome. So you're in Toronto,
1:19.9	for the summer you're in Toronto as well. Let's go back kind of to freshman year and the
1:24.2	decision to go to Western. Are you from Toronto originally? Yeah, so I'm from the
1:28.4	greater Toronto area. It's a city called Vaughn. Okay. Okay. So you're coming into school. Obviously,
1:37.0	Western is a great school, so not easy to get into. Is finance like on your mind right out of
1:42.5	the gates? Because I know you're a finance major, correct? So like so like is it yeah I'll kind of walk you through it so in grade 12 to be honest my sister
1:50.5	went to Western and you know I always got good marks and I had great extracurriculars it's just
1:56.5	it wasn't tailored to anything in particular I did this this thing called Deca, which is a business competition.
2:02.4	And I really enjoyed that.
2:03.7	And I actually was president of my school's chapters.
2:06.6	So I knew I wanted to go into business, but I didn't know exactly what in business.
2:11.5	And I knew I loved numbers and I loved talking to people.
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