Hi Amy,

I've posted my profile here before, but I would like to further clarify one point. Unlike most others here, I am neither looking for a career switch nor a new job. I am a scholar with a company from Singapore, and they are going to be partially sponsoring my studies. I'm looking to apply to full-time programmes because I am currently a college senior, but I've already had 3 summer internships with my sponsor, and know exactly what I want to achieve over the next 6 years, when I will serve out my bond to the company.

Because I intend to do corporate development work, charting the future expansion of the company, I am planning to major in finance, and possibly pursue a second major in entrepreneurship, in order to be able to spot future growth opportunities and more importantly conduct M&A work (because, in all likelihood, achieving my long term career aspirations will eventually require me to be the single point man exploring and executing deals/ partnerships/ tie-ups in foreign countries). As such, I will require a very sound grounding in financial M&A work, and am very interested in pursuing an Investment Banking Internship during the first summer of my MBA studies, in order to get such experience.

Here's the point I hope to clarify: since these internships are typically used as a recruiting tool, will it be difficult/ unrealistic to aim for one, given that not only do I have no banking experience, I will also not be looking to take up a banking job with whoever hires me? If it's not unrealistic, I'm sure it's at least more difficult. Do you have any suggestions how I could go about pursuing and securing an I-Banking internship, in this case?

Thanks lots!