Rising sophomore going for hedge funds out the gate, how delusional am I?
Career path questions,
Current situation:
18 years old turning 19 soon, nyc, pretty good flagship state school doing Econ(still a non target though), 3.94 GPA, rising sophomore, attempting to transfer spring 2022 to NYU Econ or a t25, also some target reaches like Cornell.
Doing a data science internship at a Series D rapidly growing fintech startup. Fantastic experience so far. They treat me well and are teaching me python and SQL, also spend lots of time talking to prop traders and sitting behind them watching them trade. Taking the SIE next week.
My network is very strong thanks to my parents, my dad lined me up for this job and I’ve got a PE internship at a prestigious firm basically lined up for next summer through my mom. Also possibility of doing an internship at a prestigious VC fund some time in the future.
My problem is I want to go straight to hedge funds out of college. I hate the idea of working IB at a BB slaving away for the exit ops, tbh I don’t even want to do PE out the gate. HFs and maybe VC has always been the goal. Is this stupid and delusional? I am very insecure about my college, hence why I’m trying to transfer so bad, my ideal college transfer situation is 60 credits to NYU spring 2022(will have 45 earned and 54 AP), declare double major in Econ in CAS and compsci in courant, then graduate on time spring 2024 and hopefully go straight to a hedge fund.
My dream is to do 5-10 years at a hedge fund or VC mostly to secure connections to potential investors in my psychotic transhumanist startup ideas. Also think starting a hedge fund purely dedicated to investing in immortality and the coming technological singularity would be awesome.
How stupid is this plan?
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