Most students spend months trying to land an investment banking summer internship. Then the offer comes in, the LinkedIn post goes up, and for a few weeks, it feels like the hard part is over. It is not.

Learn the 8 essential elements every strong investment banking internship CV must include, from GPA presentation and analyst-style bullets to deal experience, formatting, and examples that show recruiters you are ready for IB interviews.

Here is the exact 6-step LBO walkthrough interviewers want to hear, including what to say at each stage, what they are testing, and the mistakes that make candidates sound over-rehearsed.

Behavioral questions are one of the most important factors in IB offer decisions. Most candidates lock in technicals because they're easy to practice for and binary. You either know the formula or you don't. Behaviorals carry more weight in who actually gets the offer.

Insight programs are one of the best ways into Bulge Bracket and Elite Boutique investment banking. Students who get into one of these programs are roughly 5 to 10 times more likely to convert into a Summer Analyst offer than students who skip them and apply through the open online portal.

Insight programs are one of the best ways into Bulge Bracket and Elite Boutique investment banking. Students who get into one of these programs are roughly 5 to 10 times more likely to convert into a Summer Analyst offer than students who skip them and apply through the open online portal.

Almost every candidate has studied DCFs. You’ve built one in Excel, memorized the formula, maybe even watched a few tutorials. But explaining it out loud, under pressure, in a way that actually sounds credible? That’s where most people fall apart. I’ve seen the same pattern over and over: candidates usually know the steps, but they struggle to explain why the steps matter.

BCG full-time myself here in the US. I did it from a non-target school outside the States, with no on-campus recruiting and no alumni pipeline to lean on. During recruiting, I was casing with candidates with 4.0 GPAs from target schools who got cut in the first or final round. I've also watched candidates from non-targets, with no consulting club on campus like myself, walk out with offers from BCG. If you're reading this, you're probably trying to figure out where you actua

What I've put together here isn't a ranking of firms by prestige. It's a practical breakdown of the 15 undergraduate consulting internships that are worth targeting in 2026. I'll cover what each program actually offers, how competitive it really is, and what you need to do differently to have a real shot.

So you’re a college sophomore and you want to break into Investment Banking. Maybe you’re a freshman that just heard about Investment Banking and want to learn more. Perhaps you’ve heard from older students who talked about the recruitment process, or you stumbled onto a Linkedin post from someone who landed a J.P Morgan offer and thought to yourself: “How do I get here?”

Chances are, you have an investment banking interview coming up and you need practice questions. Or you’re a freshman/sophomore getting prepped for recruiting and trying to figure out where to start. Either way, it’s not worth spending $200 on a prep course to get what you need.

Every year, I get the same message from students a few weeks before their MBB interviews. They’ve spent months preparing: downloaded the frameworks, worked through the casebooks, and watched every YouTube video. Yet, they still aren’t sure if any of it is actually working.

Investment banking is one of the most selective entry-level career paths in the world. At top firms, acceptance rates for summer analyst roles are often estimated at well under 2–3%, with thousands of applicants competing for a limited number of spots. But here's what I've come to believe after watching this process play out over and over: "hard" doesn't mean random.

I get asked about Wall Street Prep a lot. Students want to know if it's worth the money, whether it'll actually help them get an offer, and whether there's something better they should be using instead. Here's my honest take: what it does well, what it doesn't, and how to think about whether it's the right investment for your specific situation.