Finance Internship for High School Student?

Euroazn · 10-30-2009, 07:25 PM

I'm currently a junior in the D.C. metropolitan area, and I was wondering if anyone knows if there are any finance related summer internships available to high school students. I can't seem to find any ='/

Any help would be appreciated.

Sligh_Anarchist · 10-30-2009, 08:05 PM

Finance internships are often designed for college sophomores and juniors; although if you have connections, it's not out of the question.

Euroazn · 10-30-2009, 08:40 PM

I realize that... but has anyone heard of any internships for normal high school students? (admittedly financially talented one, relatively)

TheDad · 10-30-2009, 09:32 PM

There should be a pinned thread as to why high school students are extremely unlikely to land internships that are worth a damn and should find other outlets for building up their intellectual and experential capital.

1) The job market is so crappy that you have not only sophomores and juniors but recent grads and grad students competing for unpaid internships. The intern in my D's unit (in D.C. Euroazn) did undergrad at Yale and is a Rhodes Scholar. An *intern*. You want to take a guess as to what that application pool looked like?

2) Interns require the investment of supervision. Organizations want some return on that investment. Odd of maximizing that return increase with a) greater skill set and b) greater maturity.
A high school student, no matter how special, is going to be badly outgunned on both.

Looking for an internship is a good exercise for looking at things from the other side of the table, not how it helps you you you.

Euroazn · 11-03-2009, 05:31 PM

Wow guys... nothing O.o?

Like... not even unpaid? =O

TheDad · 11-07-2009, 12:38 AM

Unpaid =/= no allocation of resources.

Do you have any reason to suppose that you have a combination of skill set, experience, and maturity that makes you even a crap shoot of being more worthy of investment of supervisory time than an equally bright or brighter upper class college student, recent grad, or grad student?

One mark of being in far over your head is not even realizing that you're in far over your head.

And that bright ambitious people are a dime a hundred.

IPBear · 11-15-2009, 08:34 PM

"The job market is so crappy that you have not only sophomores and juniors but recent grads and grad students competing for unpaid internships. The intern in my D's unit (in D.C. Euroazn) did undergrad at Yale and is a Rhodes Scholar. An *intern*. You want to take a guess as to what that application pool looked like?"

TheDad-Students pursuing careers in government, political science, etc. always start with unpaid or low-compensation internships that don't sound impressive. People always express doubt of bright grads from Ivies simply because they are taking those internships. Just wait ten years, they will become statesmen soon enough.
However, I believe the op asked about internships in finance. The job market isn't affecting students with top grades from Ivies and other top schools. I know for certain that banks like Goldman, Morgan Stanley, JPM are handing out a lot of internships and offers at places like Harvard, Wharton, Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia, Duke, etc.

TheDad · 11-17-2009, 09:12 PM

IBP, the OP is a high school student in the DC area. Students with top grades from Ivies is a pretty rarified set and a completely different matter though even there I don't think these are the days of the slam-dunk. Your post reinforces my point that the OP is completely outgunned in terms of skill set, experience, and [likely] maturity.