They’re certainly not illegitimate but your time is better spent networking, etc. or even tacking on an Econ major / minor. My (potentially dated) impression of CORe is it’s basically Lynda / Khan Academy with better PR, while CFA can be useful eventually but not worth the time investment before you’re even in the industry (And can’t even sit for the exam)

Source: attended an LAC, basically took a bunch of poli sci and philosophy classes, made it to PE

 

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