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Hey guys,I am currently a high schooler who would love to eventually work as either a Quantitive Trader, Software Engineer, or Investment Banker.  What career would you recommend, and for that career what major?  Also out of Dartmouth, Middlebury, Carnegie Mellon, McGill, or U Toronto what would the top 3 colleges be?

lugia · Accepted Answer

Okay, I'm technically in equity research, but the titles here are limited. Anyway. For finance, you can't go wrong with Wharton because that's where our lord and savior, Warren Buffet, attended. Have you considered Wharton?

CMU is the most prestigious (for east coast folks) out of the listed ones.

Also those three careers are all very different, esp software engineer and IB. IB is pretty much front office and you'll have to be face a lot of clients. The hours are intense. Depending on the firm, you might go up to 80+ hours. Just go for a finance degree but plan out your internships so you get to experience IB.

Software Engineer - Popular degrees are comp sci/software engineering/math but most companies accept any sort of technical major.

Quant - you might want to do finance/stat.

19g6vl0ciy9lg · Answer

For finance, Wharton is best, for CS, CMU. I am biased but in think CS is generally a better path.

Aus · Answer

American who went to Canada for undergrad at UBC. I would pick CMU over Canadian schools. A cs econ double major from cmu would make you good for everything if your grades can stay up. Canada in general has substantially lower pay than America for professional occupations and less name recognition in the u.s.

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