Becoming a Quant: Undergrad

Hey quantitativekaran, I'm the WSO Monkey Bot and I'm here since nobody responded to your thread! Bummer...could just be time of day or unlucky (or the question/topci is too vague or too specific). Maybe one of these topics will help:

• Factor of undergrad Prestige in becoming a Quant I understand that becoming a quant requires at least a masters and Ph.D and that risk analysis and ... similar desk analyst roles are completely different jobs than investment banking, but is there a similar ... "target school/semi-target/non-target" attitude in which getting a quant job is largely dependent on ...
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• 5 Steps To Becoming A Rockstar Freshman (Undergrad Advice) experience early on in their undergrad careers. Every year the job market becomes so much more competitive ... college. It's what I did and found to be successful! 5 Steps To Becoming A Rockstar Freshman 1. ... clerk openings, business analyst internships, finance intern openings, or even operations at a financial ...
• Hedge Fund Careers: Getting a Hedge Fund Job Out of Undergrad and Beyond become a hedge fund analyst without experience? While working in equity research or in investment banking ... undoubtedly the greatest attraction to careers with hedge funds, with analysts making $150k and then some. ... a hedge fund right after undergrad. It will however, take a great deal of work to overcome to highly ...
• I want to become a quantitative financial analyst-- help me decide my majors I have recently decided that I want to become a quantitative financial analyst after I finish my ... specifically for becoming a quant, but the math degree would give me more options in terms of future job ...
• How to become a PE analyst out of undergrad? get jobs at places like Silver Lake and Blackstone as private equity analysts and I'm just ...
• How do I know if I have the math skills necessary to become a quant? at math and I'm cut out to become a quant? I feel like I have great social skills so going into ... quant now when they won math Olympiads during high school, I thought my math skills were up there when ...
• UG PE Analyst- 2.9 GPA, no internship, non-target this one ranks #25 and was originally posted 9/20/2015. From Non-Target Undergrad Straight to PE ... gig (at at PE firm no less) straight out of undergrad with minimal experience, no ... invited me to meet his analysts and a day later they offered me a job. It was less than ideal- I was ...
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I hope those threads give you a bit more insight.