<p>AEM 3240 - Finance - Curtis</p>
<p>BTRY 6010 - Statistical Methods I - Schwager</p>
<p>HADM 4425 - Securitization & Structured Financial Products - Lebret</p>
<p>NBA 5061 - Comprehensive Financial Statement Analysis - Nichols, Shackell-Dowell
(Wait listed)</p>
<p>NBA 6940 - Equity Derivatives & Related Product - Zurack</p>
<p>ORIE 4630 - Operations Research Tools for Financial Engineering - Ruppert</p>
<p>Anyone taken any of these classes/professors? Any other thoughts?</p>
<p>Oh yeah, and anyone registered for any of these:</p>
<p>AEM 4260 - Fixed Income Securities
HADM 4429 - Investment Analysis & Portfolio Management</p>
<p>Wanna trade for something?</p>
<p>prof curtis is infamous. you’ll learn a lot, obvs, but be prepared to go to class a lot. it’s not too bad since it’s on TR afternoons - but still… no skipping possible bc he’ll call you out on it.</p>
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<p>You can learn anything those courses teach you on the job. Why not take something that might be worth chatting about over a drink, like a history or literature course?</p>
<p>im a sophomore about to take one of those and i find that it would be useful to have those skills for an internship.</p>
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<p>cayugared: i agree that it’d be beneficial to take a history/literature course, esp if it’s your last year. but aren’t you shortchanging these courses a little bit? you can have PLENTY of interesting and worthwhile conversations re: FinReg and its potential impact on derivatives; or talk about the future of financial reporting as the US and EU shift increasingly away from each others’ methods; etc. etc.</p>
<p>don’t rag on something just because you think it can be “learned on the job” - even if large companies are saying that “you don’t need a finance degree to get a job here” - you need to take at least 1 finance course/know what you’re talking about (aka read the wsj) when you interview.</p>
<p>Hey I’m actually a Stats major with no previous Finance experience. I’ve recently decided that I want to go for IB, and choose my schedule accordingly.</p>
<p>I see your point, but literature and history are just </p>
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<p>Mature much?</p>
<p>All I am saying is that I didn’t need to take six finance courses in one semester to be competitive for financial jobs. And a course in economic history would much better inform you on the merits of financial regulation than the above six.</p>
<p>Cayuga, you’re in…finance???</p>
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<p>Not exactly by choice, but yes. Surprising, I know. Just presented to a man worth half a billion dollars this past week.</p>
<p>Lol, I love you CR2005. I hope you know that.</p>
<p>It is an over kill to take so many finance courses. Even if you want to go into IB or S&T, it is sufficient to take few courses to show you have aptitude. One course most people should take is accounting, it is something that’s harder to learn on the job because most of the time it is assumed you have already taken the course (debit, credit, accrual concepts are not intuitive). It maybe worth while to take a course in psychology, especially if you are interested in a sales related job (IB and Sales). Often it’s not how good the analysis is (or how many presentations you do), it is what makes someone tick and how to ultimately close a deal.</p>
<p>I would look into these couses:</p>
<p>HADM 4425 - Securitization & Structured Financial Products - Lebret</p>
<p>NBA 5061 - Comprehensive Financial Statement Analysis - Nichols, Shackell-Dowell
(Wait listed)</p>
<p>NBA 6940 - Equity Derivatives & Related Product - Zurack</p>
<p>If you are taking securitization then there is no need to take FI. One thing to keep in mind is more finance courses you take, more difficult questions you will get during interview, AEM students have it harder than A&S students.</p>
<p>OP - my daughter is a math/econ major, she just took few finance courses last year as a junior, and she did fine during her interviews.</p>
<p>I am not just a mom, I have been in the business for 30 years.</p>
<p>Thank you oldfort.</p>
<p>Just to clear things up my schedule is:</p>
<p>AEM 3240 - Finance (Got to take this one)
BTRY 6010 - Statistical Methods I (Major requirement)
AEM 4260 - Fixed-Income Securities
NBA 6940 - Equity Derivatives & Related Product
ORIE 4630 - Operations Research Tools for Financial Engineering (Stats elective for major)</p>
<p>I have already taken financial accounting. Eq. Derv. is taught by an adjunct prof. from Goldman. I grabbed it because it will definitely provide deep technical insight.</p>
<p>That only leaves FIS as overkill I could swap it out for another programming class, but honestly Finnace is the only thing that interests me as of late. I’ve picked up a number of books and been keeping up with Bloomberg. I’m really taken by the whole industry.</p>
<p>Side question: do you think being a stats major will put me ahead of the finance majors when applying for jobs?</p>
<p>IBs (or S&T) are recruiting people with certain aptitude and personality. They are not necessary looking at particular majors. To get an interview, they are looking for relevant experience (any internship related to finance), leadership position(s) on campus (hate to put it this way, they like people in Greek life), good GPA, and few finance classes to demonstrate aptitude. My daughter didn´t have much finance background, but with heavy math she did a lot of modelling for equity derivatives desk this summer. Few finance courses she took at Cornell were very helpful, especially the securitization course. Her friend used some of that knowledge at GS and they thought he was quite smart.</p>
<p>I have seen people in engineering, hotel, A&S, ILR schools getting jobs on Wall Street. Within A&S you would find history, engilish, philosophy majors. For S&T, a lot of it is personality, ability to handle pressure and ability to do multi tasks.</p>
<p>There are firms that have not hired as many interns as they needed for permanent analyst positions for next year. They are asking their summer interns to recommend people for their campus recruiting this fall. If you are a senior, you should speak with friends who have been offered permanent jobs and see if they could recommend you. Firms are getting quite competitive in recruiting. They are already trying to recruit other firms´interns. This is going to be a much better year in getting a job on Wall Street.</p>
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<p>Just got to spread the love forward, man. That’s all I ask.</p>