try applying to boutiques. or maybe even commercial banks

I've actually applied to some boutiques already, like Blackstone. Are boutiques harder to get into than the big bulge bracket banks?

QuoteOriginally posted by: Atlas23World Bank and IFC are much harder to get into than any investment bank. IMF, even harder. These organizations usually hire PhDs or MBAs from Harvard (or similar universities).You believe these organizations actually do something. But could you sell that idea to someone else?These organizations are propped up 100% on sales and image. Actually making money is hard. But surviving indefinitely on someone else's tab is even harder.If you are going to stand around drinking champagne at receptions in New York and Paris without ever opening your own wallet, you had better have enough letters after your name for the masses to assume you must be doing something worthwhile.MP

The World Bank and IMF do a great deal. Taxpayers money from the West doesn't just transfer itself into the Swiss bank accounts of 3rd World kleptocrats you know.

Listen to MP, he's been dancing the ballrooms of international finance for a long time.