So your kid wants to be an IB?

ucbalumnus
Thu, 22 Apr 2021 18:02:57 +0000

Mwfan1921:

The issue with these IB companies is that they all have pretty staggered timelines for the internship process. She has had success getting interviews (she is a highly self motivated person) and has an offer from a second tier firm (level below bulge brackets) in IB in NYC, which she is happy with of course. But, she is at the deadline of accepting that offer. She has had interviews with a bulge bracket firm that went well…but they won’t communicate offers for another month.

Welcome to the real world of applying for jobs (not just IB). To make an analogy to college applications, job hiring is like rolling admission where a decision can come any (not predictable to the applicant) time after you complete the application (interview) process, but with a very short (week or two) timeline to accept or decline an offer (like ED) if you actually do get an offer.

It is not like college applications where all of the colleges agree that the admitted applicant has until a commonly agreed date to decide.