I think you're (drastically) under estimating the difficulty of passing a series of interviews at the tops banks or PE firms. For example, in many cases Goldman

I think you're (drastically) under estimating the difficulty of passing a series of interviews at the tops banks or PE firms. For example, in many cases Goldman's have interviewed candidates more than 20 times before giving them a job. Recently someone I know got a summer internship as a trader at GS, on her interview panel there were 4 interviewers and each one was asking her questions in a different language (english, french, german and russian). Finance jobs or interview aren't easy.