Questions parents and students ask

Check-ins and mocks continue through May 31, 2027. If they've met every weekly minimum and still have no offer, you get a full tuition refund. Terms: Any internship offer, paid or unpaid, counts, including one that's declined. Minimums must be met and logged every week (one makeup week allowed). Dropping, pausing, or missing minimums past the makeup week ends eligibility. Refund requests are due by June 15, 2027 and paid within 30 days.

No. We coach students through every application, including Extern externships, and cover the Extern fee. The offer is earned by the student.

Weeks 9–12 are the Offer Sprint: technical and behavioral mocks, plus prep and debriefs for every networking call. After Week 12, until your student receives an internship offer (paid or unpaid) or May 31, 2027, whichever comes first: a 20-minute weekly check-in and a mock interview every other week. To keep this support, the student keeps up the maintenance minimum of 100 outreach emails and 6–8 networking calls a week.

It fits a student who will do the work every week: the outreach, the calls, the reps. It doesn't fit a student who wants it done for them, and it isn't a fix for a student who doesn't want to be there. It's built for business students starting recruiting, in finance and accounting; the outreach and interview system works for any business role. In Track Technicals, students pick one of two tracks: Finance or Accounting. First Offer Academy is for business students starting recruiting who are:

• Didn't get into the club: The recruiting help on campus sits inside selective clubs, and most freshmen don't get in.
• Don't know where to start: They know internships matter. Nobody has shown them what to do first, or in what order.
• Have no network in the field: No family contacts in finance or accounting, and no idea how to meet anyone who is.
• Sending applications and hearing nothing: Online applications go out. Nothing comes back, and there's no way to tell why.
• This does not require a target school, a 4.0, a finance background, or club membership.

No. Many internship timelines start sophomore year. Freshman year is when a student builds the resume, the contacts, and the interview stories that get them there.

• For finance, accounting, and a growing share of tech and marketing roles, the students who land internships in sophomore and junior summer usually started building toward them in freshman year. Many find out how early it starts only after the first deadlines have passed.
• The most structured recruiting help on many campuses sits inside selective clubs. Students who don't get in are left to figure it out alone, at the same time as everyone else who didn't get in.
• Online advice is generic by design. It can't look at your student's resume, read their emails before they go out, or tell them what to fix after a mock interview. Feedback on real work, every week, is what changes the result of a search.

Yes. The program is built for business students starting recruiting at any school, including community colleges.

No. The program is built to work whether or not a student gets into a selective campus club.

Yes. Networking here is a process, not a personality. It starts in writing, with emails their coach reviews, and every call follows a framework your student practices out loud in session and in the weekly 1:1 before the real thing.

The weekly session is 90 minutes and the 1:1 is 60 minutes. Outreach on top of that: 3–5 hours a week, rising as outreach ramps up.

• Weeks 1–4: 25 outreach emails and 2 networking calls per week, follow-ups on schedule, every session and 1:1 attended, assignments in by Sunday 11:59 pm, scheduled mocks completed.
• Weeks 5–8: 50 outreach emails and 3 networking calls per week, follow-ups on schedule, every session and 1:1 attended, assignments in by Sunday 11:59 pm, scheduled mocks completed.
• Weeks 9–12: 75 outreach emails and 4–5 networking calls per week, follow-ups on schedule, weekly mock completed, applications logged.
• After Week 12: 100 outreach emails, follow-ups on schedule, 6–8 networking calls, a mock interview every other week, applications logged.
• One makeup week allowed.
• Show up: Attend the weekly session and the 1:1, and check in with the pod every Sunday.
• Two missed weeks in a row triggers a call: If a student misses their minimums two weeks in a row, we set up a call with the student and a parent to reset the plan together.

A group session, a 1:1, and a pod of three. Teaching is recorded and watched before each session. Live time is reps, teardowns, and questions — not lecture.

• The session: Scoreboard (0–15 min): Each student reads their numbers aloud: sent, replies, calls, level. No excuses, just numbers. Teardown (15–40 min): The recorded module is watched before the session. Live time goes to teardowns of real work and questions on it. Live reps (40–80 min): Drills in pairs or hot seat: emails rewritten live, mock calls, mock interviews. Commit (80–90 min): Each student states their exact deliverable and deadline for the week.
• The 1:1: Tracker review (0–15 min): Line by line: sends, replies, follow-ups due, calls booked. Biggest bottleneck (15–40 min): Fix the one thing slowing them down most (reply rate, call quality, stories, technicals). Work on the work (40–55 min): Edit live: resume bullets, emails, stories, "why" answers, or a mini-mock. Next 7 days (55–60 min): Exact commitments written into the tracker.
• Pod of three: Two classmates matched to your student's schedule, checking each other's numbers through the week.
• Sunday scoreboard: The tracker is updated by Sunday night. The numbers read aloud in session come from it.
• Finals week and holiday weeks run async: no session, but the minimums are still due.
• Two missed weekly minimums in a row triggers a call with the student and a parent.
• Parents get a one-page progress report every two weeks, plus the Week 8 family results meeting.

Online, live sessions on Zoom.

Through Accountability & Pods: a one-page progress report every two weeks, and a Week 8 family meeting where your student presents their results.

Tyler Ho, the founder, leads the founding cohort. 10+ internships across finance, accounting, sales, and AI engineering. He is an incoming investment banking summer analyst. Guest professionals run the last graded mocks in Interview Reps.

Because the timelines, emails, and interviews Tyler coaches are ones he ran himself, recently. 10+ internships across finance, accounting, sales, and AI engineering. He also has an incoming investment banking summer analyst offer. In college he led finance recruiting education and coached twelve pilot students: 12 of 12 landed an internship or offer.

Your deposit is fully refundable through December 15, 2026. After that, it applies to tuition, and the remaining tuition is invoiced separately and due before Week 1. Withdraw before Week 3 for a prorated refund of unused weeks. No refunds after Week 3. If we cancel the cohort, every payment is refunded in full.

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Yes: one full-tuition scholarship seat per cohort, the First Offer Scholarship, for a student who has the drive but not the means. Applications close November 30, 2026.

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Use it too. Career centers serve thousands of students. We work with your student every week: reviewing the resume, the emails, the stories, and the interviews, and holding them to a weekly number.

AI is part of the system, not a replacement for it. In Week 2 every student sets up their own AI-assisted email automation, but AI drafts; your student personalizes and reads every email before it goes, and their coach reviews the emails in the weekly 1:1. AI can't take the networking call, tell your student's story, or sit the interview for them.