| | |  | 
04-06-2008, 05:38 PM
|
#1 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: NYU Stern
Threads: 127
Posts: 588
| What to Major In
I met alot of kids who major in accountancy and finance. However, my friend at stern, where i am going, informed me that most of the kids at stern major in finance and economics.
can someone explain the pro and cons of both combinations and which one do IB banks desire more? | 
| | |
04-10-2008, 08:35 PM
|
#2 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: NYU Stern
Threads: 127
Posts: 588
| bump bump bump | |
| | |
04-10-2008, 10:36 PM
|
#3 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
Threads: 3
Posts: 495
| What you are good at, as is always the case. | |
| | |
04-23-2008, 10:36 PM
|
#4 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Boston
Threads: 11
Posts: 57
| i also heard of people doing international business and finance or econ??? | |
| | |
04-25-2008, 12:42 PM
|
#5 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Threads: 221
Posts: 951
| econs, finance, engineering, whatever... they're all good. seriously.
but yeah i was wondering too LOL! i'm going to Princeton which has Operations Research and Financial Engineering. should i really take that over Econs if i'm looking at entering IB? | |
| | |
04-25-2008, 12:52 PM
|
#6 | | Member
Join Date: May 2006 Location: London, Baby
Threads: 9
Posts: 822
| All else being equal, banks don't really care what you major in, as long as you are at or near the top of your class in whatever it is you study, you can do addition, subtraction, multiplication, division accurately and quickly, and you can find some way of convincing the recruiters that you are genuinely interested in a career in finance for reasons other than money. | |
| | |
04-25-2008, 01:04 PM
|
#7 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Threads: 221
Posts: 951
| all else being equal, would an ORFE grad have an advantage over an economics grad? I really want to do economics, pure and simple - i want a good mix of social science and math. ORFE is so much math. | |
| | |
04-25-2008, 02:56 PM
|
#8 | | Member
Join Date: May 2006 Location: London, Baby
Threads: 9
Posts: 822
| what is orfe? Operations research and financial economics? If by all else being equal you mean grades being equal too, then that program might be slightly more attractive for risk management, derivatives trading, fixed income research, exotic structuring, and other technical roles. But chances are, you'll get higher grades as an econ major than doing that nasty financial economics and OR stuff, and that will have a bigger influence than the title of your program. | |
| | |
04-25-2008, 07:07 PM
|
#9 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: P-Town, where the ballas Ball
Threads: 75
Posts: 4,312
| replace economics with engineering... | 
| | |
04-25-2008, 07:53 PM
|
#10 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Threads: 221
Posts: 951
| Sheed, why?  | |
| | |
04-26-2008, 05:51 PM
|
#11 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: P-Town, where the ballas Ball
Threads: 75
Posts: 4,312
| | |
| | |
04-26-2008, 07:47 PM
|
#12 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: NYU Stern
Threads: 127
Posts: 588
| thanks for jacking my thread
so back to my question
accounting and finance or finance and ecnomics or finance, accounting and economics | |
| | |
04-27-2008, 01:02 AM
|
#13 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: P-Town, where the ballas Ball
Threads: 75
Posts: 4,312
| fionance at stern is as good as it gets. They're like number two after wharton for finance. That's all you need. And if you were to double major it should be with math...that's about it. | |
| | |
04-27-2008, 11:29 AM
|
#14 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Threads: 14
Posts: 145
| Everyone has told me that IB's want engineers more so than econ majors. I'm not exactly sure as to why, but that's what all my friends at college (MIT + Columbia) have told me. | |
| | |
04-28-2008, 12:02 AM
|
#15 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Threads: 28
Posts: 237
| they're right, but eng is so hard to get a good gpa | |
| | All times are GMT -5. The time now is 07:28 AM. |
College Confidential is dedicated to providing the best free college admissions information available on the Web, through our many articles and this discussion forum.
