Path to Investment Banking as Biology Major
Hello, I have a few really important questions that could use some answering. First I'll start off with some back story. I am a 20 year old Biology (premed track) major at a very small private university in the Midwest (less than 1500 students). It is the summer between my sophomore and junior year. I am not nearly as interested in pre-med as I was when I first started college. I am trying to figure out my best possible path into Investment Banking (I truly enjoy numbers and researching more than anything). Here are the different scenarios I've came up with to do so. Please let me know which is best.
The first includes continuing my Biology major as I am already half way through. I have no business or finance related classes under my belt. Also my school only offers an accounting major and financial planning major for anything finance related (no economics or finance). While continuing with my bio major, I was going to enroll in the CFA program to start passing levels 1, 2, and 3 of the Program. I was hoping that this would allow me to get a finance related internship somewhere without majoring in finance. After gaining an Internship with just my CFA levels, I would then try to get into a Top10 MS in Finance program to hopefully secure an analyst position somewhere. ( Is this possible? Keep in mind I have no finance related internships or jobs, only basic college job experience (retail store)).
The second option is switching to accounting major at my current school. This would push back my graduation by at least a year or year and a half since I have not taken accounting classes at all. I would still pursue the levels of CFA, and eventually MS in Finance. My hope is that the accounting major would make it a lot easier to get a finance internship such as financial analyst intern or IB intern somewhere down the line.
The third option is switching schools and pursuing a finance degree. I would not be able to get into a Top 10 undergrad but I can go to a decent school for finance. Top 30 for sure. I would then try to secure any finance internship. Do my MS in finance and move up through IB intern, and so on.
What path logically sets me up for the highest percetage of potential success? Thank You.
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