Firsthand · Current cycle · Non-target focused

Most IB prep tells you what to study. I tell you what actually happens.

Because I was just there. I'm a Notre Dame junior who came out of this recruiting cycle with a Morgan Stanley Investment Banking offer — from a seat that looked a lot like yours. Everything I hand you is what I used, this year, on the desk you're aiming at.

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Real questions from MS, Goldman, JPM, Citi, Evercore, and BofA — this cycle
Superday files — BB vs elite boutique, interview by interview
Behavioral stories and answers that actually worked

Offer

Morgan Stanley IBD

School

University of Notre Dame

Cycle

Just completed

Full season spots

1 of 3 open

The problem

You've prepared. You're still not ready.

You memorized the guides. You practiced your story. You know what EBITDA stands for.

But here's what nobody tells you:

The technicals

The technical questions in real interviews don't come from the guides. They come from someone who read your resume, got curious about something you said, and decided to push on it.

01"Walk me through a DCF"
becomes
02"okay but why would you use a higher discount rate here"
becomes
03"what does that tell you about how this company is valued relative to its peers"

If you memorized the answer you're lost by question two. If you actually understand it you can go anywhere they take you.

The behavioral

The behavioral questions are worse. You practiced a leadership story. It sounds like everyone else's leadership story. The interviewer has heard forty versions of it today. They ask a follow up. You weren't expecting it. The answer falls apart.

The kids who get offers don't have better answers. They have real ones. Stories that are specific enough to be memorable and true enough to survive any follow up. And they understand the technicals well enough to explain them in plain English when the question changes.

That's what I'm teaching. Not the guides. The thinking behind them. Not scripted stories. Yours — built from scratch using what actually worked in my interviews this cycle.

I have the question bank. I know which questions actually come up. I know what they're really testing when they ask them. And I know what a good answer sounds like because I gave ones that worked six months ago.

I'm not teaching from memory. I went through MS IBD recruiting six months ago. I have the exact questions they asked me in every round — first round, superday, all of it. I know which answers made them lean forward and which ones got a polite nod and a mental checkmark against you. I know what they pushed back on and what they let slide. I know what they actually care about versus what the prep guides tell you they care about.

That's not something you can get from a course, a question bank, or someone who recruited three years ago. The process changes. The questions shift.

I was just there. That's the whole point.

Why IBFirsthand

Four things no course can give you.

Timing

I went through Morgan Stanley IBD recruiting this cycle.

Not five years ago, when the timeline was later and the process looked different. This cycle. The questions I was asked are the questions you're about to be asked.

Substance

Real answers and real stories — the ones that actually worked.

You get the language that got me through, not a framework someone theorized. Then we rebuild it around your background so it comes out of your mouth, not mine.

Access · Full Season only

Reachable by text. Same-day responses, all season.

Text me before an interview. Text me after. You get a same-day response from someone who just did this — not a ticket in a queue. Available to Full Season clients throughout the recruiting season.

Format

Not a course. Not a recording. One-on-one, with me.

Live tutoring, real mock interviews, and constant advice from the person who actually did it. I keep the roster small on purpose — a small number of clients is the whole point. You are working with me, not with my content.

My story

I did this the hard way. You don't have to.

Reach out — Santiago Franceschi: sfrances@nd.edu

I'm a junior at the University of Notre Dame and I play club soccer. I didn't have a parent in the industry or a pipeline handing me interviews. What I had was a schedule with no room in it and a recruiting process that starts before most people know it exists.

So I ran it like a job. Hundreds of networking calls. Technicals drilled between practices. Behavioral answers rewritten until they sounded like a person instead of a script. Every rejection turned into a note about what I'd say differently.

That ended in an investment banking offer from Morgan Stanley — through preparation and hustle, not access.

Everything I learned building that from nothing is what I hand you on day one — so your version takes months instead of years.

Services

Pick your level of access.

Everything is built from the same source — what I actually did this cycle. The difference is how much of me comes with it.

Start here

Digital Bundle

$97

Instant access. Everything I used, compiled into five documents.

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The Question Bank100+ real questions from MS, Goldman, JPM, Citi, Evercore, and BofA — first rounds and superdays, this cycle
Superday Files — Interview by InterviewBB (MS, Goldman, JPM, Citi) vs Elite Boutique (Evercore) — what each interview actually looks like, hour by hour, from someone who just sat in both
Behavioral Stories and Answers That Actually WorkedWord for word what I said. What landed. What got pushed back on. How to make each story work for multiple questions.
The Recruiting TimelineWhat to do every week from September through your offer — the breakdown nobody publishes
Cold Email TemplatesThe exact formats that got banker responses. Subject lines included.

À la carte

Single Sessions

Starting at$75

Need something specific? Email to inquire — limited availability.

Resume + Cover Letter Review$200
Mock Interview Session$200
Technical Tutoring Session$150
LinkedIn Review$75
Interview Debrief$100

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Full Season · Three spots available — one remaining

Full Season

$5,000

Three clients. October through January. The full prep period from technicals to first rounds.

Weekly sessions — technicals transitioning to mock interviews
Unlimited text support — same-day responses, all season
Resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn overhaul
Networking strategy and email templates
Everything in the Digital Bundle included

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One remaining · October through January

What you get · Full Season

The whole season, covered.

Weekly technical sessionsAccounting, valuation, DCF, LBO — drilled until the answers are automatic.
That convert to weekly mock interviewsAs real interviews get close, the sessions turn into live reps under pressure.
Text support all seasonSame-day responses throughout recruiting.
Resume and cover letter overhaulRebuilt to banking standard, line by line, until it survives a ten-second read.
LinkedIn optimizationSet up so the recruiter who checks you finds a candidate, not a student.
Networking strategy and email templatesWho to reach, when to reach them, and the exact language that gets replies.
Behavioral story buildingYour stories, structured off real examples that worked — not off a generic template.
Interview debriefs after every real interviewWe break down what was asked and what to change before the next one.

Questions

Straight answers.

When should I start?

Now. Recruiting starts earlier than almost anyone expects — by the time it feels urgent, the students who get offers have been preparing for months. Starting early is the single biggest advantage available to you, and it's free.

How is this different from WSO or the other prep services?

Those are libraries. Large, generic, and written for whoever shows up — much of it years out of date, none of it aimed at you specifically. I just went through this cycle and got the Morgan Stanley offer. You're not buying content; you're buying current, firsthand experience from one person who is available to you directly.

I'm at a non-target with no finance experience. Is it too late for me?

That's exactly who this is built for. I wasn't handed a network either. What closes the gap isn't pedigree — it's knowing the timeline, having answers that hold up, and putting in reps before the interviews start. All three are teachable.

What if I'm already in the middle of interviews?

Then we skip the buildout and go straight to reps and debriefs. Mock interviews, technical drilling, and text support during the weeks that decide it. Bring me the interview you just walked out of and we'll fix it before the next one.

How do I get started?

Start with the Digital Bundle at $97 — instant access, no calls required. If you want one-on-one help after that, email sfrances@nd.edu.

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