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  • Step 1

    Find your funding source.

    Search your career center site for "professional development fund", "conference stipend", or "enrichment grant", and ask whether it covers preparation software.

  • Step 2

    Send the letter.

    Copy the letter below that matches your situation, fill in the bracketed lines, and send it. The whole ask takes five minutes.

  • Step 3

    Forward the receipt.

    After checkout, Stripe emails you a receipt automatically. Forward it, or ask team@internvest.com for an itemized invoice if your fund needs one.

Copy, fill in the brackets, send

Two letters that do the asking.

Both cite the real prices ($49 monthly, $99 quarterly, $288 annually) and frame the ask the way funders think: a small cost against a $110,000+ first-year salary.

Need the full plan breakdown for your funder? See the pricing page.

Letter 1

To your career center's professional development fund

Subject: Professional development fund request: Internvest subscription

Dear [Fund administrator / Career center director],

I am writing to request support from the professional development fund for a subscription to Internvest (internvest.com), the preparation platform I am using for finance recruiting this cycle.

Internvest consolidates the entire recruiting process into one tool:

- 6,000+ practice questions, graded instantly with explanations
- Finance openings across all ten paths, with deadlines and in-app alerts
- Firm intel: interview questions by firm, round and group, across 238 firms
- Technical and behavioral questions with step-by-step explanations
- 6 timed modeling tests built in a grid, 30 paper modeling drills
- A diagnostic and a week-by-week plan to your interview
- FINRA SIE prep with timed practice exams

The plan options are $49 per month, $99 per quarter, or $288 per year, each billed as a recurring subscription. I am requesting the [plan] at [$49 / $99 / $288]. If the fund prefers to approve a single line for the academic year rather than a recurring monthly charge, the annual plan is the one that fits.

For context on the return: first-year analyst compensation at the firms I am targeting starts above $110,000, and the offer usually comes down to a handful of interviews, so a season of structured preparation is a small fraction of what it is for.

I am happy to provide a receipt, an itemized invoice, or any other documentation the fund requires. Thank you for considering this request.

Sincerely,
[Your name]
[School, program, class year]

Letter 2

To your parents

Hi Mom and Dad,

I want to ask for help with one recruiting expense this semester: a subscription to Internvest (internvest.com), the platform I am using to prepare for finance interviews.

Here is what it actually does for me:

- Tracks every open internship and analyst opening and counts down to each deadline, with alert rules I set, so I never miss an application
- Gives me 6,000+ graded practice questions and timed sets, with an explanation on every answer, instead of me guessing whether my answers are good
- Shows me how each firm's interviews are structured, with questions tagged by firm, group, and round
- Gives me timed modeling tests and a written brief for each path, so I can study between classes

It costs $49 a month, $99 a quarter, or $288 a year. The annual plan works out to about $24 a month, the cheapest of the three, and it covers the whole recruiting year, so that is the one I would pick. It is a yearly subscription, billed once a year.

The math is why I am comfortable asking. The first-year jobs I am recruiting for pay $110,000 and up, and the offer usually comes down to a handful of interviews. This is $288 for a year of preparation for those interviews.

I will treat it like the investment it is. Thank you for backing me on this.

Love,
[Your name]

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