SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY (SEO) SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY (SEO) is the nation's premier summer internship program for talented students of color. The SEO Career Program has expanded from 11 interns placed at four investment banks in 1980 to serving hundreds of exceptional students of color annually. SEO interns are placed in seven of the nation's most competitive industries, including investment banking, corporate law, asset management, global corporate finance, information technology, accounting and philanthropy. Since its inception, the SEO Career Program has placed nearly 4,500 Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian and Native American students in rigorous internships leading to full full-time job offers. In recent years, more than 80 percent of SEO Career Program interns have received job offers from SEO partner firms after their internships.

The SEO Investment Banking Program continues to grow. In 2006, 256 SEO interns were placed in summer analyst positions in corporate finance, sales and trading, research, asset management and public finance in New York, Stamford, Ct., and Hong Kong. SEO now has 13 investment banking and asset management partners : Banc of America Securities; Barclays Capital; Blackrock; Citigroup; Credit Suisse; Deutsche Bank; Goldman Sachs; JPMorgan; Lazard Ltd.; Lehman Brothers; Merrill Lynch; Morgan Stanley and UBS.

THE ORIENTATION AND TRAINING that SEO Career Program interns receive prepares them to not only meet, but exceed, their greatest expectations for professional performance and personal growth during their summer internships. SEO partners with Almaris E-Learning Systems and Zoologic which provide online modules on the Time Value of Money, Securities Markets, Equity Valuation, Corporate Finance, the Fundamentals of Economic Indicators and the Derivation of Financial Statements, Training the Street which provides live instruction in financial modeling and valuation, and Dealmaven which provides both live and online instructions in building integrated financial statements using Excel best practices, as well as renowned professors from the best business schools in the country, to offer interns a comprehendsive skills based training program before their internships begin. In addition, the SEO Summer Seminar Series, featuring presentations by the CEOs and presidents of SEO's investment banking partners, offers interns the chance to meet, learn from and stay in contact with managing directors, partners and recruiting officers from SEO partner firms.

MENTORING AND ALUMNI SUPPORT are also integral to the success of the SEO Career Program. SEO provides industry and alumni mentors to all of its interns, who help students navigate through their industry, overcome specific job challenges, balance professional and personal concerns and convert their internships into full-time job offers. In addition, SEO Career Program interns graduate into a powerful network of thousands of SEO alumni in 43 states and 30 countries. SEO alumni are not only thriving professionally but serving their communities as board members, financial contributors, mentors and volunteers. Combined, these resources put SEO interns on the fast track to some of the most financially and personally rewarding career opportunities in the world.

For more information on the SEO Career Program, please visit our web site at: www.seo-usa.org. To explore joining SEO as a corporate partner, please contact Julian Johnson, senior vice president, at (646) 435-9572 or via e-mail at jjohnson@seo-usa.org.