Cause you are not helping by giving false information and false hope. i am not the guy that said the stuff previously but most of what you said is patently wrong. Only right thing would be GPA is key and CFA does not really matter. That's about it. Investment banks, big small or boutique, takes the cream of the crop. you do not need to be finance major, as long as your major is considered analytical and rigorous enough (i.e. some engineering, hard sciences course). The problem is an internship in IB is as difficult to get in as the main job, which means if you don't excel at the start of university you're SOL. of course if you know someone inside a bank or some rich people who can pull connection then that changes thing.