Blackstone will soon be hiring its next crop of first-year analysts. But getting this job is 12x as tough as getting into Harvard

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Good morning, Term Sheeters. Finance reporter Luisa Beltran here.

I remember applying for internships in college and for that first big job out of school. I sent what seemed like a million resumes for several different jobs, many of which I knew nothing about. Luckily, by the time I graduated, I had four different internships under my belt, a good-but-not-spectacular GPA, and knew a little of what I could do and thought I could handle just about anything the world threw at me. But looking back at my 22-year-old-self, I don’t think I could’ve endured the Blackstone interview process—or that I would have even made it past the first round.