Kelsey Quinn is a senior graduating at High Point University with a degree in Computer Science entering a job in data analytics for Bloomberg in Manhatted NY after she graduates. Kelesey drops some great advice on the importance of getting involved early, how to use every experience as a learning experience, how she chose between consulting for Deloutte versus Bloomberg and what helped diversify her in the interviews. 

She goes into great detail about each interview and what it entailed so this is a great opportunity to prepare if you are entering the computer science, finance, and data analytics world. 

Made over 20k in Robinhood through a Tesla call option in 1 day. Find out how Connor got started investing, his thoughts on robinhood, and his advice to students who want to get started today. Connor Alaimo is a sophmore at High Point University who was introduced to the stock market from an early age by his Grandfather and Father. After playing around with 50 bucks on different platforms like E*trade and Robinhood, Connor started to begin saving a portion of his weekly income from a local job and investing which began to not only accumlate over time from his savings, but compound interest. A year ago, Connor started playing around with call and put options where he has found exponential success in multiplying his initial invesmtnet into over 15x returns . 

Most people face issues shopping and just move on. Not Rylee. After a year of going to different fashion boutiques back home in New Hampshire and in High Point near her college, Rylee felt like she could create a collection of pieces that would relate better to females her age at a price point people like her would love and could afford. After mentioning her idea to her parents, with the support of both her Father and Mother, she decided to create her own online boutique through Shopify, but within weeks came across an oppurtunity to open her own brick and mortar store in a local mall near her home in New Hampshire. Learn how Rylee went from idea to LLC, from online store to brick and mortar, and all her "wow" moments along the way. 

After just 2 weeks at High Point University, Liam's life did a complete 360 degree. He decided that medicine was not his dream and left the D1 baseball team. During his first break from school, Liam came across a youtube video of a young 22 year old that advertised how he was making millions through wholesaling. The clickbait was just good enough to keep Liam interested and quicly addicted to learning more. Liam discusses his true education about wholesaling from "youtube university" as the most valuable and cheapest education he ever received. After 1 year of watching videos,  Liam woke up one morning and decided to take action by driving to a local city near his college and simply put a post-it note on the front  door of a property that he thought he could profit from. After losing money on his first couple deals and facing great adversity, something deep in Liam's heart told him to stick through for a third attempt which is where he made his first profitable transaction. Listen to this week's episode of the Dive-In podcast where Liam talks about his perspective on standard education, finding your passion, taking risk, and the details of how he makes his money without a license or any money down starting off. 

Meet Caitie, a junior who was a division 1 golfer who noticed an issue when the original Pop-n-Socket came out. Her friend used to keep all her important student id's and credit cards on the back of the phone, but after purchasing the pop-n-scket she could not keep both on her phone which was most conveniant. Her friend not having a wallet put all her cards in her pocket and proceeded to lose all her most essential cards. This major issue led Caitie to find a solution to having both this new product for her Iphone, but also a way to hold her essential credit cards on her phone case. Within two days, she had filed for a patent, applied for a grant to receive enough funding to create her first prototype and within 5 days due to connections her Mom had at her advertising business was able to sell 500 units of product within the first week. This journey would lead Caitie to quit her collegic golf career and convince her mom to quit her job to full commit to growing their new venture. At first Caitie imagined her product as a consumer favorite, but just after her product came to market, 2 weeks later, the #1 provider copied her idea. Caitie talks about the importance of knowing your products competitive advantange and the ability to pivot. In 2020, Caitie is hoping to make 500k in sales and has signed some very impressive collaboration deals with major brands. To learn more about building prototpyes, finding manufactorers, going to trade shows, and how she grew her company out of college with the help of her mom... check out this week's episode of the Dive-In podcast. 

Douglas Terc: the first student at High Point University to ever be accepted into the JP morgan summer analyst program. Before he was invited Doug changed his majors multiple times allowing him to find his passion for numbers within a financial standpoint. Was burned by last year's application deadline motivating him to get started way earlier which gave him an advatange over a majority of other students. Doug talks about how to choose the right major for you, why timing matters in the interview process, how he discovered his inside person, the multiple rounds of the JP morgan process, how he overcame a terrible answer on his super-day,s and finally how a side project revolving around fantasy baseball would actually serve as his greatest asset during the final interview againt the competitive nature of IVY schools like Harvard and Yale.