Thinking about Finance with an unusual Backgroung
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Hi guys,
I am a 23 year old from Canada with a college degree in Life Sciences with some business courses in undergrad. I have been particularly strong in the math and physical sciences fields, but my experiences in those were cut short due to preparing for medical school. I am now finding myself less interested in the medical field and would like to see if I could be cut out for the financial industry. I have read the standard introductory texts about the industry which have stimulated my interest in the field. I want to learn more and have been giving Masters in Finance a thought, but may want to pick up some finance undergraduate credits at some school (Any recommendations for courses that can give me a good idea of what I would get myself into?) probably outside the context of another degree. I would like to know if it is too late for me to get into industry due to my age and lack of experience. Should I pursue another undergraduate commerce degree before anything else? Ultimately want to end up in sales and trading side of an ibank
Thanks,
MSF would be a good way to go depending on your stats
I have a 4.0 undergrad GPA and wrote the MCAT (useless here I know). I have not written the GMAT or GRE yet. High school stats were somthing like 2300 SAT, 3.9 GPA and six 5s on AP exams. This summer, I will be taking some introductory Finance courses online through some big name schools. As an alternative to MSF, I have also contemplated doing a 2 year commerce degree at Ivey, but given the stiff competition for jobs in the US I was hoping to find a similar 2 year program (while the degree is 4 years, the first two years you take whatever and last two are pure commerce courses) at any one of the target or reputable schools in the US. Have not heard of anything like that so far.
Haha Smitty123 I know what you mean this country is far left to my views as well, but we are Canadians eh...
What are these "standard introductory texts" you speak of?
Whoa, I thought you actually "Wrote" the MCAT for a split sec. That would have been impressive. But, no, it's just a Candian thing. Like the first poster said, MSF would be your best bet. "Ivey's" are mainly liberal arts, and the schools who have business programs will not just let you transfer to spend two years in their undergrad school after you graduated. I doubt any school will just let you cut two years out of their curriculum because you think it's "whatever."
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Hi,
Sorry about the confusions I did not misspell Ivy as Ivey. I mean Ivey School of Business at UWO in Canada. They have the HBA program where their undergrad commerce degree consists only of 2 years, but they require that you complete 2 years prior in an undergrad program of your choice + some pre-reqs. My slight worry with MSC is that it might be heavily quatitative and engineering type subjects for a year, as compared to another undergrad commerce degree where you have a broader array of courses of course because there is more time to complete it. This is somewhat important since I am coming from a minimal business background.
No, I did not actually write the MCAT, although that would be cool I think they hire professors to do that. I only took it as med prep.
They probably won't let you skip over two years of pre-reqs. If you want to be a good trader, you better get used to the quantitative work.
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