I’m in the banking sector, how do I get into investment banking?

I’m from a non-target school. Could you give me any pointers?

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MBA, equity research -> IB or big 4 accounting/deals -> IB. Pretty much impossible going from a non-target unfortunately. 99% of those in IB are from targets/semi-targets. Ivey/Queens/Laurier/Waterloo/Rotman/Schulich if we are talking Ontario. There are exceptions (ie connections), but honestly it’s rare.

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Im talking undergrad not MBA. I went to waterloo and I have so many classmates in investment banking… these are all undergrad targets/semitargets.

Laurier isn’t target

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That is probably the top program in the country. Maybe Ivey undergrad is a close second

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