These members-only extracurricular clubs give students an intensive introduction to a future career in investment banking and can act as a crucial pathway into some of the most coveted jobs on Wall Street. But they are attracting fresh attention as the entry point into a system in which young people thinking about a career in high finance are having to make big choices in their early 20s and even late teens for jobs they will not start for many years.
“The cost of being hyper career-focused too young is that you trade curiosity for certainty,” says Vitoria Okuyama, a former professional tennis player who later joined the investment banking group...
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