Getting into Wall St. firms from Georgia Tech?

Coloradomama
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 21:37:31 +0000

@lmao2018 I disagree with your opinion that Dartmouth is a better pipeline to Wall Street or any job. I believe the quantitative training at GaTech is stronger than Dartmouth, and will give OP an edge. I agree with @InPursuit that Linked in is a good way to figure out where Wall Streeters went to college. Wall Street loves and has always loved MIT and GaTech grads in math, physics and computer science, because those students are better at math to begin with, and only get even better after four years of intense math training.

A little outside the argument but to make the point that math matters: Every single physics PhD student can have his pick of Wall Street jobs, if they are lacking in enthusiasm for a physics career in government or academia. Many PhD students from all the good physics schools " bail" to Wall Street to make money.

Here is a nice discussion of why Wall Street loves math and physics majors-