For the past two years, I have participated in the Academy of Finance, an intensive two-year academic program designed to give high school students a background in accounting, finance, international business, banking and economics. I was selected in my junior year based on my academic performance and an interview. The program itself entails seminars at corporations, interactive classroom lectures, and advanced courses in finance at my high school.
One of the requirements of the program was to obtain a summer internship in the field of finance. This past summer, I interned at Citigroup in New York City. The particular division was called CGI Finance, wh